Bissell Inc.

Gerber Products Company

Robert C Coon

Douglas J Medema

Wesley D Mersman

Eric C Huffman

Eric J Hansen

Rebecca J Bachman

James L Willis

A drinking device adapted for use by young children includes a cap adapted to sealingly cover a drinking cup. The cap has a spout and a mount, and a valve cartridge removably attached to the mount for controlling fluid flow through the spout. The valve cartridge is removable for easy cleaning or replacement, and includes a valve holder that manually, frictionally pressfits into a barrel-shaped mounting flange on the cap. The valve holder includes a grip to facilitate removal of the valve cartridge from the cap. A valve retainer snap-attaches to the valve holder to hold a silicon rubber valve in place on the valve holder. The valve includes a head section with slits that define cooperating valve fingers that cooperate to selectively allow fluid to flow out of the spout or to allow air to flow back into the cup, thus allowing the valve to operate as a single and only valve on the drinking cup.

Cup for young children with cap valved for fluid control

A solution dispensing bottle assembly adapted for snap-locking to a water extraction cleaning machine is shown. The bottle assembly includes a bottle having a tapered neck with an adapter telescopically mounted on the tapered neck. The adapter includes a pair of flexible flanges having apertures provided thereon. In mounting the bottle assembly to a known water extraction cleaning machine, the flexible flanges receive inwardly extending lugs provided on the machine in a snap-fit interlocking manner. The bottle is quickly removed from the machine by squeezing the flexible flanges inwardly a sufficient distance to remove the opposed lugs from the flange apertures and then sliding the bottle assembly away from the lugs.

Solution dispensing bottle assembly

A water extraction cleaner comprises a system for delivering clean solution to a surface to be cleaned, a system for extracting dirty solution and air from such a surface, and a housing supporting the delivery system and the extraction system. The housing defines a recess for receiving a pair of tanks, an upright front surface of the recess being complementary to upright rear surfaces of the tanks. The housing is also provided with a pivot surface spaced from the upright surface of the recess and engageable by lower end portions, the pivot surface being formed and disposed to hold the upright surfaces of the tanks in snug engagement with the upright recess surface. Each of the tanks may be mounted on the housing by tilting the tank to insert the lower end portion thereof into the recess and then rotating the tank to an upright position about the pivot surface. The delivery system includes an inlet on the housing disposed to receive clean solution from one of the tanks when it is received in the recess in the upright position. The extraction system includes an outlet on the housing disposed to deliver dirty solution and air to the other of the tanks when it is received in the recess in the upright position. A detent arrangement is provided to removably secure the tanks on the housing in these operative positions, and the clean-solution tank includes a valve mechanism automatically actuated to permit flow from the tank when it is in its operative position.

Portable water extraction cleaner

Combined hose and storage rack

Portable water extraction cleaner housing

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Holland, MI, United States of America

Robert C Coon