Lock-out mechanism for dispenser

• US 6,619,512 B1
• Filed: 07/16/2002
• Issued: 09/16/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Joseph S. Kanfer
• Original Assignee: Joseph S. Kanfer
• Inventors: Ciavarella, Nick E., Sayers, Richard C., Yeager, Robert H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Shaver, Kevin
• Assistant Examiner(s): WILLATT, STEPHANIE L
• Application Number:
  US10/195,681
• Time in Patent Office: 427 Days
• Field of Search: 222/325, 222/207, 222/214, 222/215, 222/181.1, 222/181.2, 222/181.3
• US Class Current: 222/207
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 5/1207 Dispensing from the bottom of the dispenser with a vertical piston
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 5/1208 by means of a flexible dispensing chamber

Abstract

A lock-out mechanism for use with a dispenser having a back plate and a cover hingedly attached thereto for receipt of a refill container with an attached pump. The cover carries a pressure member in the form of a push bar having a pump activating projection which normally activates the pump by engaging a collapsible portion thereof when the push bar is activated and the refill cartridge and pump are properly seated within the dispenser. The push bar also carries an interference rib on the push bar which projects therefrom and engages a non collapsible portion of the pump and prevents the pump activating projection from engaging the collapsible portion of the pump when the pump is misseated in the dispenser.

Claims

1. A dispenser for dispensing fluids from a refill container through a pump carried by the refill container comprising:

a) an elongate back plate;

b) an elongate cover hingedly connected at one end to one end of said back plate and movable between covering the uncovering relationship with said back plate;

c) locating means carried by said back plate for locating the pump of the refill container on said back plate;

d) an activating member carried by said cover and movable into and out of activating contact with the pump when said cover is in covering relationship with said back plate; and

e) interference means carried by said cover and preventing movement of said activating member into activating contact with the pump when the pump is not properly located in said locating means.

2. The dispenser of claim 1 wherein the pump includes a substantially rigid body and a depressible member carried by said body and engagable with said activating member when said pump is properly located in said locating means.

3. The dispenser of claim 2 wherein said interference means include at least one rib projecting from said cover toward said back plate and movable into engagement with said rigid body when said pump is not properly located in said locating means to prevent contact of said activating means with said depressible member.