Conopco, Inc.

Unilever Home and Personal Care Usa, Division of Conopco, Inc.

Helene Curtis, Inc.

Ian Stuart Midgley

John Richard Nottingham

Jay P Tapper

Jason Grant Tilk

Charles Peter Althoff

John William Nottingham

John Wilford Spirk, Jr

Richard Paul McNabb

Rodrigo Jimenez

Norman Clark

Dean Michael Limb

John David Lamb

Adalberto Geier

Patrick J Coyne

Gunter Kolanus

Andrew Claughton

Nigel Laurence Jackson

Jo&euml;l Desgrippes

Pablo Gazzera

David Michael Limb

Karen Michelle Dickinson

An aerosol fluid dispenser includes a movable actuator for controlling dispensing of the liquid or fluid product from the dispenser and a locking mechanism for locking the actuator.

Fluid dispenser and locking mechanism

A liquid cosmetic product dispenser that can allow a person to quickly and unobtrusively apply liquid cosmetic product includes a palm sized dispenser and the liquid cosmetic product is disposed in the dispenser under pressure that is greater than atmospheric pressure. The dispenser includes a movable actuator button for controlling dispensing of the liquid cosmetic product from the dispenser and a locking mechanism for locking the actuator button.

Pocket sized fluid dispenser

A liquid cosmetic product retail unit includes a container and a plurality of dispensers disposed in the container. The container is dimensioned to fit onto a shelf in a retail store and includes a base, a lid and a plurality of receptacles formed in at least one of the base and the lid. A method for offering for sale a liquid cosmetic product is also disclosed.

Liquid cosmetic product retail unit

A protective packaging unit for a bottle or jar. The unit comprises a moulded plastic sheath which is closed at the top, open at the bottom, and releasably holds the bottle or jar, and has cutaway sections in opposite sides that enable the bottle or jar to be grasped between finger and thumb and pulled from the sheath. The packaged consumer product comprising the bottle or jar and the sheath is easy to assemble and to use.

Protective packaging unit

A sprayhead for example for an aerosol or pumpspray container comprises a support, a fluid outlet mounted on the support, a passageway connected to the fluid outlet at a first end and connectable to a fluid source at a second end, the passageway being movable between a first non-operative position and a second position in which, in use, it is connected to a fluid source such that fluid can pass through the passageway to the fluid outlet, a member secured relative to the support, the member being movable between a non-operative position and a further position in which it allows the passageway to attain its second position, and a lock selectively operable to lock the member in its first position, thereby preventing the member from urging the passageway to its second position unless the lock is released.

For aerosol and pumpspray containers which can be locked into a non-operative position

In the present invention, an actuating mechanism for a hand held canister is provided in which a slider is moveable by finger pressure from a valve-disengaged position into a valve-engagable position and a concealed spring returns the slider to a valve-disengaged position when finger pressure is removed. The spring is preferably molded with the slider, projects through a slit in the over-cap of the canister and acts in a vertical plane against a stop depending from the over-cap. It is energised when the slider is moved into the valve engagable position. The slider is preferably releasably locked in the valve disengaged position.

Actuator mechanism

Aerosol dispenser

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Leeds, United Kingdom

Ian Stuart Midgley