Liquid soap dispenser with mounting base

• US 5,148,948 A
• Filed: 07/05/1991
• Issued: 09/22/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Celeste Industries Corporation (Illinois Tool Works Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Celeste Industries Corporation (Illinois Tool Works Inc.)
• Inventors: Patrick, Michael K., Granville, Richard C., Mourlas, James C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Shaver, Kevin P.
• Application Number:
  US07/726,290
• Time in Patent Office: 445 Days
• Field of Search: 222/173, 222/153, 222/180, 222/184, 222/, 222/321, 222/383, 222/384, 222/385, 222/463, 248/551
• US Class Current: 222/173
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 2005/1218 Table mounted; Dispensers integrated with the mixing tap
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 5/12 for liquid or pasty soap

Abstract

A liquid soap dispenser and a mounting base for connection to a counter top on a sink in a public washroom to prevent the unauthorized removal of the dispenser. The dispenser includes a bottle having a spherical bottom wall which prevents the bottle from being self-supporting if removed from the mounting base.

Claims

1. A liquid dispenser and a mounting base comprising, a bottle having a bottom wall, a discharge assistant connected to said bottle, a protrusion connected to the bottom wall of said bottle, a spherical end wall formed on said protrusion, whereby the bottle is prevented from standing upwardly on a horizontal supporting surface;

a mounting base, means for securing said mounting base to a horizontal supporting surface, and means for fastening said protrusion to said mounting base, whereby the bottle is supported on said horizontal surface in an upwardly standing position.

2. A liquid dispenser and a mounting base according to claim 1, wherein the means for fastening the protrusion to the mounting base comprises a threaded connection between the protrusion and the base member.

3. A liquid dispenser and a mounting base according to claim 1, wherein the means for fastening the protrusion to the mounting base comprises a bayonet-type connection between the protrusion and the base member.

4. A liquid dispenser and a mounting base according to claim 1, wherein the protrusion is formed integrally with the side wall of the bottle to thereby form the bottom wall of the bottle.

5. A liquid dispenser and a mounting base according to claim 1, wherein the protrusion comprises a separate unit secured to the bottom wall of the bottle.

6. A liquid dispenser and a mounting base according to claim 2, wherein the mounting base comprises a cup member and said threaded connection comprises internal threads on said cup member cooperating with external threads on the protrusion.

7. A liquid dispenser and a mounting base according to claim 6, wherein the means for securing the mounting base to the supporting surface comprises a threaded stud depending from the cup member and extending through a hole in the supporting surface, and a lock washer threadably mounted on said stud.

8. A liquid dispenser and a mounting base according to claim 7, wherein an elastomeric washer is interposed the base member and the top of the supporting surface, and a metal washer is interposed the bottom of the supporting surface and the lock washer.

9. A liquid dispenser and a mounting base according to claim 8, wherein a wing nut is threadably mounted on the end portion of the stud and abuts the lock washer.

10. A liquid dispenser and a mounting base according to claim 6, wherein the means for securing the mounting base to the supporting surface comprises, external threads provided on the side wall of the cup member extending through a hole in the supporting surface, and a lock washer threadaby mounted on said external threads.

11. A liquid dispenser and a mounting base according to claim 10, wherein an upper flange portion is provided on said cup, an elastomeric washer interposed the flange portion and the top of the supporting surface, and a metal washer interposed the bottom of the supporting surface and the lock washer.

12. A liquid dispenser and a mounting base according to claim 3, wherein the mounting base comprises a cup member and said bayonet-type connection comprises slots formed in the side wall of said cup member receiving a pair of radially outwardly extending pins mounted on the protrusion.

13. A liquid dispenser and a mounting base according to claim 12, wherein said means for securing said mounting base to the supporting surface comprises a layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive on the bottom of the cup member.

14. A liquid dispenser and a mounting base according to claim 1, wherein said means for securing said mounting base to the supporting surface comprises a layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive on the bottom of said mounting base.

15. A liquid dispenser and a mounting base according to claim 1, wherein said means for securing said mounting base to the supporting surface comprises a threaded stud depending from said mounting base for extending through a hole in the supporting surface, and lock washer means threadably mounted on said stud.

16. A liquid dispenser and a mounting base according to claim 1, wherein said means for securing said mounting base to the supporting surface includes said mounting base having a side wall, external threads provided on said side wall of said mounting base for extending through a hole in the supporting surface, and lock washer means threadably mounted on said external threads.

17. A liquid dispenser and a mounting base according to claim 16, and said mounting base having an upper flange portion thereon extending radially beyond said external threads for overlying the supporting surface.

18. The combination of a bottle and a mounting base comprising, a bottle having a bottom wall, a protrusion connected to the bottom wall of said bottle, a spherical end wall formed on said protrusion, whereby the bottle is prevented from being self supporting on a horizontal surface;

said mounting base comprising, a cup member receiving the protrusion on the bottom of the bottle, said cup member having a bottom wall, means for securing said mounting base to a horizontal surface, and means for fastening said protrusion in said cup member, the spherical end wall of the protrusion engaging the bottom wall of the cup member and being deformed thereon to provide an upwardly biasing force against the fastening means to enhance the securing effect of the fastening means.