Soap dispenser including removable soap supply container positioner and stabilizer

• US 4,164,306 A
• Filed: 04/03/1978
• Issued: 08/14/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Crown Zellerbach Corp. (International Paper Company)
• Original Assignee: Towlsaver Incorporated
• Inventors: Perrin, Jack L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Spar, Robert J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Skaggs, H. Grant
• Application Number:
  US05/892,882
• Time in Patent Office: 498 Days
• Field of Search: 222/173, 222/179.5, 222/180, 222/181, 222/185, 222/325, 221/282, 221/283, 239/282, 239/283, 248/311.3, 248/311.1, 248/316 D, 248/221.3, 141/375
• US Class Current: 222/181.2
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 5/12 for liquid or pasty soap

Abstract

A frame including a vertically pivotal cabinet mounts a dispensing mechanism selectively operable by an actuating lever for dispensing liquid soap therefrom. The main soap supply is provided by an inverted container which is rearwardly vertically pivoted into and forwardly pivoted from a soap supplying position when the cabinet is open. At least one forward cylindrical projection on the frame slidably pressure abuts facing vertical surfaces within a back wall recess of the container during pivotal insertion into and while the container is in the soap supplying position, the projection and recess preferably being horizontally offset relative to the container vertical centerline, all to positively locate and stabilize the container in the dispenser.

Claims

1. In a dispenser for dispensing flowable soap and the like, said dispenser being of the type having a frame mounting a dispensing mechanism operable for dispensing soap therefrom and a container in communication with said dispensing mechanism in a soap supplying position adjacent a generally vertical frame part directing a soap supply to said dispensing mechanism, said container being selectively vertically pivotally removable from and oppositely vertically pivotally insertable into said soap supplying position and said communication with said dispensing mechanism for removal of said container upon exhaustion of said soap supply therein and insertion replacement in said soap supplying position with a container having a replenished soap supply;

the combination of;

upper extremity clearance recess means on said container and opening upwardly for providing clearance for forwardly extending portions of said dispenser frame during said container vertical pivoting to and from said soap supplying position;

a generally horizontal projection on said dispenser generally vertical frame part projecting forwardly of a rear vertical part of said frame part;

generally horizontal positioning recess means on a generally vertical back wall of said container spaced from all of said clearance recess means and vertical and horizontal extremeties of said container, said positioning recess means being located for receiving said frame part projection therein during said pivotal insertion of said container into said soap supplying position and permitting said pivotal removal of said frame part projection therefrom during removal of said container from said soap supplying position, thereby locating said container in said soap supplying position, said container positioning recess means having horizontally spaced and generally vertically extending surfaces therein facing said dispenser horizontal projection to aid in said container locating in said soap supplying position.

2. In a dispenser as defined in claim 1 in which said vertically extending surfaces within said container positioning recess means oppositely abut said dispenser horizontal projection when said container is in said soap supplying position to aid in stabilizing said container in said soap supplying position.

3. In a dispenser as defined in claim 1 in which said vertically extending surfaces within said container positioning recess means oppositely horizontally pressure abut said dispenser horizontal projection during said insertion of said container into and during said container being in said soap supplying position to pressure stabilize said container in said soap supplying position.

4. In a dispenser as defined in claim 1 in which said dispenser horizontal projection and said container positioning recess means are horizontally offset from a vertical center line of said container when said container is in said soap supplying position.

5. In a dispenser as defined in claim 1 in which a lower wall within said container positioning recess means angles downwardly toward outer extremities of said container positioning recess means providing exact clearance for said dispenser horizontal projection during said container pivotal insertion into and from said soap supplying position.

6. In a dispenser as defined in claim 1 in which said dispenser horizontal projection and said container positioning recess means are horizontally offset from a vertical center line of said container when said container is in said soap supplying position;

and in which said vertically extending surfaces within said container positioning recess means oppositely abut said dispenser horizontal projection when said container is in said soap supplying position to aid in stabilizing said container in said soap supplying position.

7. In a dispenser as defined in claim 1 in which said dispenser horizontal projection and said container positioning recess means are horizontally offset from a vertical center line of said container when said container is in said soap supplying position;

and in which said vertically extending surfaces within said container positioning recess means oppositely horizontally pressure abut said dispenser horizontal projection during said insertion of said container into and during said container being in said soap supplying position to pressure stabilize said container in said soap supplying position.