Liquid dispensing combination

• US 4,765,515 A
• Filed: 04/28/1986
• Issued: 08/23/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: GOJO Industries Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Jerome Lippman
• Inventors: Lippman, Jerome
• Primary Examiner(s): SKAGGS JR, H GRANT
• Application Number:
  US06/856,790
• Time in Patent Office: 848 Days
• Field of Search: 222/160, 222/162, 222/180, 222/182, 239/274, 239/302
• US Class Current: 222/162
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 5/12 for liquid or pasty soap

Abstract

A liquid dispensing combination includes a mounting unit having a base and a cover. A dispensing unit including a supply reservoir and a spring load pump and nozzle is supported on the base and has a portion which projects through and is accessible from the bottom of the base and cover so that the dispensing unit can be moved upwardly relatively of the mounting unit to depress the pump and dispense a variably predetermined amount of the contents through the nozzle.

Claims

1. A liquid dispensing combination comprising:

(A) a mounting unit including

(1) a base having a planar surface and

(2) a cover having a front face and a bottom surface pivotally attached to said base for movement relatively thereof between open and closed positions and having a first access opening in said front face;

(B) a dispensing unit releasably supported by said base for movement relatively thereof and including

(1) a reservoir portion and

(2) a dispensing portion operatively connected to said reservoir portion and partially projecting through said first access opening of said cover when said cover is in its closed position;

(C) said cover having a second access opening in its bottom surface;

(D) a part of said reservoir portion of said dispensing unit projecting through said second access opening when said dispensing unit is supported by said base; and

(E) said dispensing unit being positioned by surfaces along the cover and base so as to be movable along a line parallel to a line extending from said first access opening to a point of intersection with a line extended from a plane lying along the planar surface of said base, movement of said dispensing unit toward said first access opening causing engagement of said dispensing portion with said mounting unit whereby said dispensing portion is caused to dispense liquid.

2. The dispensing combination of claim 1, wherein locating means project from one face of said base;

and said dispensing portion of said dispensing unit includes a spring loaded pump secured to one end of said reservoir with said pump being releasably engagable with said locating means.

3. The dispensing combination of claim 2, wherein said first access opening is a nozzle receiving opening;

and said pump includes a dispensing nozzle projecting through said nozzle receiving opening when said dispensing unit is supported on said base and said cover is in closed position.

4. The dispensing combination of claim 3, wherein said cover has a forward face having a lower surface area and an upper surface area disposed at an acute angle with respect to the plane of said lower surface area;

said nozzle receiving opening being located in said upper surface area; and

said pump is disposed in a plane substantially parallel to the plane of said upper surface area.

5. The dispensing combination of claim 4, wherein said base has a main body portion lying in a plane substantially parallel to that of said lower surface area of said cover when said cover is in closed position;

guide means are disposed on said base and projecting in a plane substantially parallel to the plane of said upper surface area;

said dispensing unit being supported on said guide means.

6. The dispensing combination of claim 2, wherein locating means are mounted in said base;

said pump being engaged by said locating means when said dispensing unit is supported on said base.

7. The dispensing combination of claim 1, wherein said base has an access opening in its bottom surface in opposed relationship with said second access opening in said cover.

8. The dispensing combination of claim 1, wherein latch means are carried by said base and said cover to releasably retain said cover in closed position.

9. The dispensing combination of claim 1, wherein means are removably disposed on said base for limiting movement of said dispensing unit relatively thereof.

10. The dispensing combination of claim 1, wherein the part of said reservoir portion of said dispensing unit which projects through said second access opening is visually and manually accessible from the bottom of said mounting unit.