Apparatus for hands-free dispensing of a measured quantity of material

摘要

An apparatus for automatically dispensing a fluid includes a container (36) for the fluid and a dispense mechanism (28) to control the amount of fluid to be dispensed. An object sensor (42) controls a pump actuator mechanism (40) for engagement with the dispense mechanism (28) for dispensing a measured amount of fluid. The pump actuator mechanism converts rotational motion to linear motion to operate the dispense mechanism. A control circuit (152) has a processor (306) to receive a signal from the object sensor (42) when an object is detected, and the processor generates a cycle signal received by the pump actuator mechanism in order to operate the dispense mechanism.