Abstract: A dispensing package for a floor treatment composition. The dispensing package includes a coupling shell and a container. The coupling shell is engaged with the container by a neck fitment projecting from the coupling shell. The coupling shell is provided with a dispensing opening and at least two support zones. The container includes a membrane seal engaged with a sealing surface of the container. The coupling shell can provide for a connection between a container and a dispensing system.

Abstract: A coupling shell including a top wall, a shell wall, a front aperture in the top wall, a dispensing opening in the top wall, and a neck fitment projecting into the shell interior of the shell wall. The coupling shell can provide for a connection between a container and a dispensing system.

Abstract: A dispensing system for a floor treatment composition. The dispensing system includes a housing partially enclosing a cavity and a cradle moveable within the housing along a z-axis from a first position to a second position. The dispensing system further includes a chassis and a sliding lock that includes an open frame. An inlet canula projects through the open frame. When the cradle is in the second position, the inlet canula entrance projects through the open frame and through a liquid transport aperture in the cradle. Latches extending from the open frame also project through engagement apertures in the cradle when the cradle is in the second position. The dispensing system further includes a pump in fluid communication with the inlet canula and a mop head in fluid communication with the pump.

Abstract: A method of engaging a dispensing package with a dispensing system. The dispensing system includes a cradle movable from a first position to a second position. The dispensing system also includes a sliding lock that includes an open frame and a plurality of latches extending from the open frame. An inlet canula protrudes through the cradle when the cradle is in the second position. The dispensing package includes a coupling shell. The coupling shell includes a front aperture in the top wall thereof. The dispensing package is fitted to the cradle which is in the first position and pushed downwardly. The inlet canula punctures the membrane seal of the and the latch engages with the front aperture hold the dispensing package in the dispensing system.

Abstract: A dispensing package for a floor treatment composition. The dispensing package includes a coupling shell and a container. The coupling shell is provided with a dispensing opening and at least one front aperture. The container includes a membrane seal engaged with a sealing surface of the container. The coupling shell can provide for a connection between a container and a dispensing system.

Abstract: A manually operated pump including: an inlet one-way valve; a pump chamber downstream of and in fluid communication with the inlet one-way valve; a piston interior to the pump chamber and slideably engaged with the pump chamber; an actuator engaged with the piston or the pump chamber; a block thermoplastic elastomeric spring engaged with the actuator to move the actuator as the block thermoplastic elastomeric spring relaxes; and an optional outlet one-way valve downstream of and in fluid communication with the pump chamber.

Abstract: A dispensing package for a floor treatment composition. The dispensing package includes a coupling shell and a container. The coupling shell is engaged with the container by a neck fitment projecting from the coupling shell. The coupling shell is provided with a dispensing opening and at least two support zones. The container includes a membrane seal engaged with a sealing surface of the container. The coupling shell can provide for a connection between a container and a dispensing system.

Abstract: A coupling shell including a top wall, a shell wall, a front aperture in the top wall, a dispensing opening in the top wall, and a neck fitment projecting into the shell interior of the shell wall. The coupling shell can provide for a connection between a container and a dispensing system.

Abstract: A dispensing package for a floor treatment composition. The dispensing package includes a coupling shell and a container. The coupling shell is provided with a dispensing opening and at least one front aperture. The container includes a membrane seal engaged with a sealing surface of the container. The coupling shell can provide for a connection between a container and a dispensing system.

Abstract: A valve assembly for a dispenser. The valve assembly includes a valve body. The valve body includes a first hoop member, a second hoop member, and a transition portion defined by the joining of the first hoop member and the second hoop member. The first hoop member includes a first hoop outer portion positioned, a first hoop inner portion, a first hoop upper surface, and a first hoop lower surface. The second hoop member includes a second hoop outer portion, a second hoop inner portion, a second hoop upper surface, and a second hoop lower surface. The second hoop inner portion extends about the longitudinal axis defining a passageway. The passageway comprises a first passageway opening, a second passageway opening opposite the first passageway opening, and a passageway surface extending from the first passageway opening to the second passageway opening.

Abstract: A valve assembly for a dispenser. The valve assembly includes a valve body that extends about a longitudinal axis and defines an outer surface and an inner passageway. A valve stem extends through the inner passageway and includes an outer stem surface, an inner stem surface opposite the outer stem surface, and a first orifice extending from the outer stem surface to the inner stem surface. The valve assembly includes a retaining member joined to the valve stem, wherein the retaining member extends outward from the outer stem surface. The valve assembly includes a resilient member and one or more force concentrators configured to operatively engage the resilient member.

Abstract: A threaded valve for an aerosol container. The threaded valve comprises a housing, a moving assembly disposed in the housing, threads suitable for threadable onward attachment onto a complementary neck of an outer container for an aerosol dispenser and a plurality of pawls and/or ratchets disposed on and extending from the housing. The pawls and/or ratchets allow onward rotation of the valve onto the complementary neck and impeding rotational detachment of the valve in a reverse direction.

Abstract: A manually operated pump including: an inlet one-way valve; a pump chamber downstream of and in fluid communication with the inlet one-way valve; a piston interior to the pump chamber and slideably engaged with the pump chamber; an actuator engaged with the piston or the pump chamber; a block thermoplastic elastomeric spring engaged with the actuator to move the actuator as the block thermoplastic elastomeric spring relaxes; and an optional outlet one-way valve downstream of and in fluid communication with the pump chamber.

Abstract: A manually operated pump including: an inlet one-way valve; a pump chamber downstream of and in fluid communication with the inlet one-way valve; a piston interior to the pump chamber and slideably engaged with the pump chamber; an actuator engaged with the piston or the pump chamber; a block thermoplastic elastomeric spring engaged with the actuator to move the actuator as the block thermoplastic elastomeric spring relaxes; and an optional outlet one-way valve downstream of and in fluid communication with the pump chamber.

Abstract: An outer container for an aerosol dispenser. The outer container has a closed end bottom and a longitudinally opposed open, open neck. A complementary valve can be received in the neck. A cap overlays the valve and engages the outer container, valve, or both, to prevent removal of the valve. The cap may have threads, ratchets/pawls, splines, spikes, bayonet fitting or combination thereof to engage the valve or outer container.

Abstract: A manually operated pump including: an inlet one-way valve; a pump chamber downstream of and in fluid communication with the inlet one-way valve; a piston interior to the pump chamber and slideably engaged with the pump chamber; an actuator engaged with the piston or the pump chamber; a compression spring engaged with the actuator; and an optional outlet one-way valve downstream of and in fluid communication with the pump chamber; wherein the compression spring includes a continuous thermoplastic elastomeric tube supported between opposing offset tube supports.

Abstract: An aerosol foam dip tube dispenser with an axis of symmetry with a pressurizable outer container for storing a propellant and a composition under pressure and an actuator. The aerosol dispenser is ergonomic and promotes upright dispensing in order to avoid degassing.