Liquid soap dispenser

• US 6,036,058 A
• Filed: 09/23/1998
• Issued: 03/14/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chia Chou
• Original Assignee: Chia Chou
• Inventors: Chou, Chia
• Primary Examiner(s): Huson, Gregory L.
• Application Number:
  US09/161,748
• Time in Patent Office: 538 Days
• Field of Search: 222/214, 222/181.3
• US Class Current: 222/214
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 5/1209 with chamber in the form of a cylindrical tube

Abstract

A liquid soap dispenser includes a housing, a container holder inside the housing to hold a liquid soap container, a flexible dispensing nozzle connected to the liquid soap container to such in a liquid soap from the liquid soap container, and a handle pivoted to the housing and turned to squeeze an amount of the liquid soap out of the flexible dispensing nozzle wherein the container holder is detachably fastened to a base frame of the housing by a hooked joint, the axis which passes through the center of rotation of the handle intersects with the longitudinal central axis of the flexible dispensing nozzle.

Claims

1. A liquid soap dispenser comprising:

a housing, said housing comprising a base frame and a cover shell pivoted to said base frame;

a locking frame coupled to said base frame and moved between a first position where said cover shell is locked, and a second position where said cover shell is unlocked and allowed to be opened from said base frame;

a container holder mounted inside said housing;

a liquid soap container carried on said container holder inside said housing, said liquid soap container holding a liquid soap;

a dispensing nozzle connected to said liquid soap container pivoted to said base frame and retained to a front side of said container holder to suck in the liquid soap from said liquid soap container and to let an amount of the liquid soap to be dispensed when squeezed, said dispensing nozzle comprising a flexible nozzle tube connected to said liquid soap container at a bottom side, and a nozzle tip extended from one end of said flexible nozzle tube remote from said liquid soap container out of said housing; and

a handle controlled to squeeze the liquid soap out of said flexible nozzle tube through said nozzle tip, said handle having two pivot pins respectively pivoted to respective pivot holes on said cover shell and a squeeze rod moved with said handle to squeeze said flexible nozzle tube;

wherein;

said base frame comprises two longitudinal flanges raised from an inside wall thereof and arranged in parallel, a plurality of spring strips respectively raised from the inside wall between said longitudinal flanges, and two rows of vertically spaced hooks bilaterally raised from the inside wall and separated by said longitudinal flanges;

said container holder is supported on the longitudinal flanges of said base frame and pressed against the spring strips of said base frame, having symmetrical pairs of hooks hooked up with the hooks of said base frame;

the axis which passes through the pivot holes on said cover shell and the pivot pins of said handle intersects with the longitudinal central axis of said flexible nozzle tube.