Liquid soap dispenser

• US 4,932,566 A
• Filed: 01/09/1989
• Issued: 06/12/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Eliezer Weinbaum
• Original Assignee: Eliezer Weinbaum
• Inventors: Weinbaum, Eliezer
• Primary Examiner(s): Huppert, Michael S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Huson, Gregory L.
• Application Number:
  US07/295,133
• Time in Patent Office: 519 Days
• Field of Search: 222/175, 222/548, 222/185, 222/212, 222/215, 248/444, 248/102, 206/581, 206/229, 224/148, 224/202, 401/6, D 3/61, D 3/62, D 9/442, D28/76
• US Class Current: 222/175
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 2003/002 Sacks or packs carried on the body by means of a single strap passing around the neck
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 5/122 using squeeze bottles or the like A47K5/1201 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 23/003 Suspension means
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 37/00 Portable flexible containers not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 47/265 between planar parts B65D47/24 takes precedence

Abstract

A liquid soap dispenser is formed with a central body including a plurality of upwardly depending legs tapering to a reduced dimension from the central body to terminal ends of the legs which are in a normally abutting end-to-end relationship to enable flexure of the legs relative to the central body for securement of the dispenser about the neck portion of an individual. The central body is formed with a downwardly depending extension with an arcuate slot selectively alignable with an arcuate slot formed within a rotatably mounted cap overlying the extension for selective dispensing of soap from within the transparent dispenser.

Claims

1. A liquid soap dispensing apparatus containing liquid soap for securement about the neck of an individual, said apparatus comprising,

a bifurcated hollow reservoir body including an upwardly extending hollow flexible first leg, and an upwardly extending flexible hollow second leg wherein said first and second legs define end surfaces which are resiliently biased towards one another to define a closed continuous internal periphery of said body in a first position, and

wherein said first and second legs define an open periphery in a second position when said end surfaces are pulled away from one another, and

said first and second legs merge and communicate in a communicating apex to define a central body portion remote from said end surfaces, and

a cap rotatably mounted onto said central body portion overlying said apex to enable selective dispensing of said soap, and

wherein said first and second legs end surfaces are formed with respective arcuate first and second terminal ends wherein said ends are in abutting contact in said first position, and

wherein said first and second legs are defined by a tapering cross-sectional configuration from said central body portion through said terminal ends to enhance flexure of said legs from said first position to said second position, and

wherein a body extension extends outwardly of said central body portion and said body extension is of a cylindrical configuration and defines a circumferential body ridge on an exterior surface thereof spaced parallel to a circumferential body groove, and wherein said body ridge and said body groove rotatably cooperate with a respective cap groove and cap ridge on said cap at an extension thereof to secure said cap extension onto said body extension in a rotatable manner, and

wherein said cap and said body extension are coaxially aligned, and

wherein said body extension includes a web orthogonally formed over a terminal end of said body extension with a first arcuate slot radially formed about the axial center of said web, and

wherein said cap includes a lower web formed overlying said cap groove and said cap ridge with a second arcuate slot formed in said cap lower web spaced from the axial center of said cap web a distance equal to the spacing of said first arcuate slot from the axial center of said body web, and

wherein said cap further includes a nozzle mounted to an upper web axially aligned with said lower web and said body web, said upper web is spaced from said lower web a distance to define a cavity therebetween.