Weighted dip tube for a manual dispenser

摘要

A manually actuated dispenser (10) having a flexible weighted dip tube (22) is supplied with the dip tube (22) constrained within a holder (25,26) so that the dispenser may be mounted to a container (C) of liquid to be dispensed without entanglement by the dip tube. A tubular extension on the tube retainer (26) which surrounds the dip tube (22) has a releasable holder (32) for maintaining the dip tube (22) in a collapsed condition during installation within the container (C). The releasable holder (32) is dislodgeable or is soluble in the liquid in the container (C) for releasing the stored dip tube (22) permitting a ballast weight (36) at its end to extend the dip tube toward the container bottom wall, assuring a wetted condition of the inlet end of the dip tube during all attitudes of liquid dispensing.