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

Karen Michelle Dickinson

Adalberto Geier

Ian Stuart Midgley

Gunter Kolanus

Andrew Claughton

Richard Paul McNabb

Norman Clark

Nigel Laurence Jackson

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

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New South Wales, Australia

Karen Michelle Dickinson