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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2017
Colgate-palmolive Company, New York, NY (US);
Brian Worthington, Dunellen, NJ (US);
Colgate-Palmolive Company, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A mouthwash dispensing system including: a bottle with a threaded neck () defining an opening () and configured to hold a liquid; a dispenser () including a receiving orifice () and a receiving protrusion (); and a spring-actuated adapter, including: an adapter orifice (); a valve stem () including a spring () and a seal (), wherein the spring () is configured to bias the seal () to move the spring-actuated adapter to a closed position; a threaded adapter () configured to couple the spring-actuated adapter to the threaded neck (); and a friction-fit adapter configured to couple the spring-actuated adapter to the dispenser (); wherein, when the spring-actuated adapter is coupled to the dispenser (), the receiving protrusion () moves the spring-actuated adapter to an open position to allow the liquid to flow from the bottle through the adapter orifice () and into the dispenser ().