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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2014
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Christopher Lawrence Smith, Liberty Township, OH (US);
William Kater Lasala, Mason, OH (US);
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
A tap dispenser having a main body, said main body having a main body interior portion and an opposing main body exterior portion; a liquid flow pathway passing through the main body; a vent pathway passing through the main body, wherein air transport through the vent pathway is separated from liquid transport through said liquid flow pathway and wherein the vent pathway has a vent pathway inlet and an opposing vent pathway outlet; a vent valve operably engaged with the vent pathway outlet; and a liquid flow valve operably engaged with the liquid flow pathway.