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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2002
Steve L. Sweeton, Lee's Summit, MO (US);
Joseph R. Krestine, Leawood, KS (US);
Saint-Gobain Calmar Inc., City of Industry, US;
Abstract
A manually actuated dispenser having a flexible weighted dip tube is mounted to a container of liquid to be dispensed without entanglement by the dip tube by the provision of a tubular extension on the tube retainer which surrounds the tube and has a releasable holder for maintaining the tube in a collapsed condition during installation within the container, the retainer being dislodged or being soluble in the liquid in the container for releasing the stored dip tube permitting the ballast weight at its end to extend the tube toward the container bottom wall assuring a wetted condition of the inlet end of the tube during all attitudes of liquid dispensing.