Abstract: A trigger sprayer valve assembly that has a conical flange that controls the flow of liquid in a downstream direction through a liquid passage of the trigger sprayer. The valve is constructed with an elongate stem or shaft that facilities the assembly of the valve into the trigger sprayer and a positioning plug that solely holds the valve in a centered position in the liquid passage of the trigger sprayer.

Abstract: A nozzle assembly for a handheld and hand operated liquid trigger sprayer includes a nozzle housing and a flow control member contained in the nozzle housing. The nozzle housing has an oblong liquid discharge orifice and a plurality of liquid breakup channels that radiate outwardly from the orifice. The flow control member has a head with a conical surface that engages over the liquid breakup channels and together they break up a flow of viscous liquid into separate liquid streams that impact with each other at the entrance to the discharge orifice and the liquid is discharged from the nozzle orifice in a narrow, fan spray pattern of the viscous liquid.

Abstract: A nozzle assembly for a handheld and hand operated liquid trigger sprayer includes a nozzle housing and a flow control member contained in the nozzle housing. The nozzle housing has an oblong liquid discharge orifice and a plurality of liquid breakup channels that radiate outwardly from the orifice. The flow control member has a head with a conical surface that engages over the liquid breakup channels and together they break up a flow of viscous liquid into separate liquid streams that impact with each other at the entrance to the discharge orifice and the liquid is discharged from the nozzle orifice in a narrow, fan spray pattern of the viscous liquid.

Abstract: A manually operated liquid foaming dispenser is attached to the top of a container of liquid and is manually vertically reciprocated to dispense the liquid from the container as a foam. The dispenser includes a liquid pump chamber and an air pump chamber that respectively pump liquid and air under pressure to a discharge passage of the pump where the liquid and air are mixed, generating the foam dispensed from the dispenser. The air pump chamber has a tube valve controlling the discharge of air from the air pump to the discharge passage, and the air pump chamber is charged with air by opening the air pump chamber to the exterior environment of the dispenser.

Abstract: A trigger sprayer construction is provided with a single valve member having both a sleeve valve and a disk valve on the single valve member that is assembled into a sprayer housing having a continuous discharge passage and supply passage to provide a trigger sprayer construction with a reduced number of separate component parts.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a trigger sprayer which is connectable to two container volumes containing separate liquids. The sprayer has a trigger that is manipulated to draw the separate liquids into two separate pump chambers and then supply the two separate liquids from the pump chambers through two separate discharge passages and check valves to a mixing chamber of the sprayer. In the mixing chamber the two separate liquids are mixed together prior to their being dispensed from the trigger spray.

Abstract: An adjustable nozzle is attachable to the end of a garden hose and is also attachable to a separate product container, for example, a bottle containing a garden fertilizer or a bottle containing a cleaning soap concentrate. The adjustable nozzle receives a flow of water from the garden hose and dispenses a product from the container attached to the nozzle. The nozzle has a simplified construction with a reduced number of component parts and the operation of the nozzle is simplified yet enables a user to selectively discharge a flow of water or a mixture of water and product from the nozzle, to control the ratio of water to product when the nozzle is employed in dispensing the mixture of water and product, and to direct the discharge as a stream or disperse the discharge in an upwardly or downwardly directed fanned spray pattern.

Abstract: A trigger sprayer valve assembly that has a conical flange that controls the flow of liquid in a downstream direction through a liquid passage of the trigger sprayer. The valve is constructed with an elongate stem or shaft that facilities the assembly of the valve into the trigger sprayer and a positioning plug that solely holds the valve in a centered position in the liquid passage of the trigger sprayer.

Abstract: A child resistant lock for manually-operated pump dispensers such as trigger sprayers, prevents movement of the trigger and reciprocation of the sprayer pump element when the lock is engaged.

Abstract: A closure comprising a cap and container where the cap is integrally formed with a trigger sprayer housing and the cap and container have four thread connectors that attach the cap to the container by a quarter turn of the cap relative to the container, and where the cap also has locking tabs that snap over detents on the container and hold the cap securely to the container preventing unintended separation of the cap from the container.

Abstract: A manually operated pump comprises a pump housing and a plunger. The pump housing has a pump chamber and an intake port. The plunger extends into the pump chamber. A piston is on the plunger and is reciprocally and axially slidable within the pump chamber between a bottom stroke position and a top stroke position. The fluid pump further includes a priming valve, a check valve, a sealing plug, and a plug seat. The priming valve permits fluid to flow upward through the pump chamber when the piston stroke moves the piston downward from the top stroke position toward the bottom stroke position, and prevents fluid from flowing upward through the pump chamber when the piston stroke moves the piston upward from the bottom stroke position toward the top stroke position. The check valve has a valve seat and a moveable valve member moveable between a closed position in which the moveable valve member moveable between seated and unseated positions.

Abstract: A low cost trigger sprayer has a housing with a first liquid passage containing a spinner assembly. An elastomeric pump element is positioned generally horizontally such that pulling the trigger retracts the element and releasing the trigger allows the element to extend. The sprayer includes a low cost spinner assembly and low cost valving to control the flow of liquid within the sprayer. In one aspect of the invention, the housing has front and rear sections with the rear section having a saddle portion and being hinged to the front section for pivotal movement from an open position for molding the housing to a closed position for operating the sprayer. In another aspect of the invention, the container has a rear portion which extends upwardly past the neck and defining a saddle recess, with the housing connected to the neck of the container and positioned forwardly of the upwardly extending container portion.

Abstract: The invention is particularly directed to a trigger sprayer having structure for foaming a dispensed liquid where the structure is adapted for adjustments to vary the foam pattern of the dispensed liquid to obtain an optimum foam pattern for any particular liquid, and to the incorporation of a device integral with the sprayer nozzle housing for sealing the opening of a foam dispensing passage of the foamer trigger sprayer.

Abstract: A manually operated pump comprises a pump housing and a plunger. The pump housing has a pump chamber and an intake port. The plunger extends into the pump chamber. A piston is on the plunger and is reciprocally and axially slidable within the pump chamber between a bottom stroke position and a top stroke position. The fluid pump further includes a priming valve, a check valve, a sealing plug, and a plug seat. The priming valve permits fluid to flow upward through the pump chamber when the piston stroke moves the piston downward from the top stroke position toward the bottom stroke position, and prevents fluid from flowing upward through the pump chamber when the piston stroke moves the piston upward from the bottom stroke position toward the top stroke position. The check valve has a valve seat and a moveable valve member moveable between a closed position in which the moveable valve member moveable between seated and unseated positions.

Abstract: A manually operated reciprocating fluid pump comprising a pump housing, a plunger, a piston and a priming valve. The pump housing has an inner surface and a pump chamber defined at least in part by the inner surface. The pump chamber extends axially through the pump housing. The plunger extends axially into the pump chamber. The piston is reciprocally and axially slidable via the plunger and within the pump chamber between a bottom stroke position and a top stroke position. The priming valve is configured to be open and thereby permit fluid to flow upward through the pump chamber when the piston stroke moves the piston from the top stroke position toward the bottom stroke position and configured to be closed and thereby prevent fluid from flowing through the pump chamber when the piston stroke moves the piston toward its tip stroke position. At least part of the priming valve and at least part of the piston are a single monolithic piece.

Abstract: A fluid dispenser is used to dispense a foaming liquid from a container either as a spray or as a foam. The dispenser comprises a housing attached to a container of the liquid, a nozzle connected to the housing, a passage extending from the container interior to the nozzle orifice, a pump positioned along the passage, a valve positioned along the passage, and a foam generator attached to the nozzle. The nozzle has an orifice through which the fluid substance is dispensed. The valve is configured for alternating movement between an open and a closed position. The foam generator is configured to move with respect to the nozzle between a foaming position and a non-foaming position and is located adjacent the nozzle orifice when in the foaming position and remote from the orifice when in the non-foaming position. Alternatively, the fluid dispenser is used to dispense a liquid from a container either as a spray or as a stream.

Abstract: A liquid dispenser comprising a dispenser body having a pump mechanism defining a variable volume fluid receiving cavity. A cylindric formation, smaller than the fluid receiving cavity, is within the cavity and a vent passageway is in fluid communication with the cylindric formation. A plunger is reciprocally moveable within the cylindric formation and is configured for moving with the pump mechanism as the pump mechanism is moved between extended and contracted positions. The plunger and cylindric formation are configured such that the vent passageway is in fluid communication with the fluid receiving cavity of the pump mechanism when the pump mechanism is in its contracted position and is configured to block fluid communication between the vent passageway and the fluid receiving cavity when the pump mechanism is in its extended position.

Abstract: A cap, spinner, and discharge nozzle assembly for use with a liquid dispensing apparatus such as a trigger sprayer. The spinner assembly can be externally fitted to the discharge nozzle, and includes an annular chamber surrounding a central post having a swirl chamber in its top. The central post includes longitudinal grooves, communicating with tangential grooves in an annular wall defining the swirl chamber. Apertures are provided in the base of the annular chamber such that pressurized liquid flows through the apertures and into the annular chamber, with a resulting reduction of velocity, and then along the longitudinal grooves and through the tangential grooves into the swirl chamber. A cap is provided which variably engages the discharge nozzle and which has at least a central projection on the inner side of its front face, and preferably an annular groove formed by an outer projection surrounding the central projection.