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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 1979
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1977
Antonio M Cassia, Milan, IT;
Steiner American Corporation, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
A liquid soap dispensing system includes a closed soap container having a manually actuated dispensing pump carried therebeneath and being mounted on a bracket which has support fingers engageable with a lip on the container bottom for supporting it and a flexible retaining finger engageable with a groove in the top of the container for releasably holding it immovably against the bracket. A bottom wall extends from the bracket beneath the container and cooperates therewith to enclose the dispensing pump and is provided with an aperture to accommodate dispensing of soap therethrough. Refill of the container is by a plastic refill squeeze-bottle with a neck closed by a membrane. The neck is inserted in a wall in the top of the container, and a piercing member at the bottom of the well ruptures the membrane, whereupon soap may be squeezed from the bottle and through apertures in the well bottom, which apertures are too small to permit ready flow of soap therethrough by gravity at ambient pressure. Seal flanges on the bottleneck engage the well sides to prevent soap from being squeezed up around the neck and out of the well. A latchable cover plate covers the container well and has formed therein an ashtray and cigarette holder.