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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2001
Norman Clark, Leeds, GB;
Andrew Claughton, Leeds, GB;
Karen Michelle Dickinson, New South Wales, AU;
Adalberto Geier, Villazzano, IT;
Nigel Laurence Jackson, Peterborough, GB;
Gunter Walter Kolanus, Niedernhausen, DE;
Richard Paul McNabb, Wirral, GB;
Ian Stuart Midgley, Leeds, GB;
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
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.