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

Richard Paul McNabb

Ian Stuart Midgley

John David Lamb

Adalberto Geier

Gunter Kolanus

Andrew Claughton

Willem Oldenburg

Norman Clark

Rodrigo Jimenez

Nigel Laurence Jackson

Karen Michelle Dickinson

Kevin Roberts

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

Detergent dispenser system

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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Wirral, United Kingdom

Richard Paul McNabb