Shaving cream dispenser

• US 5,415,488 A
• Filed: 04/18/1994
• Issued: 05/16/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: David A. Macgibbon, Robert F. Cunningham
• Original Assignee: David A. Macgibbon, Robert F. Cunningham
• Inventors: Cunningham, Robert F., MacGibbon, David A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bratlie, Steven A.
• Application Number:
  US08/228,231
• Time in Patent Office: 393 Days
• Field of Search: 401/190, 401/266, 401/139
• US Class Current: 401/191
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/285 for applying the contents, e.g. brushes, rollers, pads, spoons, razors, scrapers closures with pads or like contents-applying means B65D47/42; brushes with integral pre-pressurised reservoirs A46B11/0017; domestic cleaning implements with liquid-feeding devices A47L13/00

Abstract

A nozzle arrangement comprising a triangularly shaped distributor having a stem which is attachable to a discharge tube of an aerosol can. The distributor has a slot through which shaving cream is evenly spread onto a user. A lip is arranged across the distal edge of the distributor, adjacent the orifice, to permit a flat, even distribution of the cream discharged onto the user'"'"'s skin.

Claims

1. A nozzle arrangement for the flat even discharge of shaving cream onto a user'"'"'s skin, the nozzle arrangement comprising:

a hollow stem portion;

a hollow distributor in fluid communication and integral with said stem portion;

an orifice arranged across the distal end of said distributor;

a feathered lip replacably attached along one edge of the distributor by a button and buttonhole arrangement between said distributor and said lip, adjacent its orifice on its distal end, to help spread out flat and evenly, any shaving cream ejected out said orifice when said nozzle is attached to an aerosol can of shaving cream;

said distributor being delta shaped and which includes a webbed planar pressure portion for permitting a user to press thereagainst, said distributor being flat, thin and having a plane which lies at an angle of about 15 to 45 degrees with respect to the longitudinal axis of said stem portion.

2. A nozzle arrangement as recited in claim 1, wherein said angle is about 30 degrees.

3. A nozzle arrangement as recited in claim 2, wherein said orifice comprises an elongated slot.

4. A nozzle arrangement as recited in claim 2, wherein said orifice comprises a plurality of holes, said holes being in fluid communication with said hollow stem portion of said distributor.

5. A nozzle arrangement as recited in claim 2, wherein said distributor has a regulator valve adjustably movable across a throat portion of said hollow distributor.

6. A nozzle arrangement as recited in claim 5, wherein said valve includes a transverse bar which extends across said throat of said distributor.

8. A nozzle arrangement as recited in claim 1, wherein said hollow stem portion is attachable to a base portion having a hollow lumen therein, which hollow lumen is attachable to a discharge tube of an aerosol shaving cream can.

7. A nozzle arrangement as recited in 6, wherein said lip has a curvilinear edge to provide a wider surface so as to smear shaving cream evenly on a user'"'"'s skin.

9. A nozzle arrangement for the even discharge of shaving cream onto a user'"'"'s face, said nozzle arrangement comprising:

a hollow stem portion for attachment to an areosol shaving cream can;

a hollow "T" shaped distributor portion in communication with said stem portion, said "T" shaped portion comprising a distal end thereof;

an orifice arrangement disposed on the distal end of said "T" shaped portion;

a curved thin flexible feathered lip arranged on said distal end, adjacent said orifice arrangement, said feathered lip having a plurality of spaced apart notches thereacross to permit excess shaving cream to be discharged therethrough.

10. A nozzle arrangement for the even discharge of shaving cream, as recited in claim 9, wherein said lip is secured to the distal end of said "T" shaped portion by a plurality of buttons and buttonholes arranged therebetween, to permit secure and simple replacement of said lip by the user of said nozzle arrangement.