Squeeze dispenser with flexible conduit with attached, weighted and grooved end

摘要

There is shown a hand operated fluid and/or powder dispenser and as an preferred embodiment includes a plastic squeeze container having longitudinally fluted ribs for easy collapsing. In the interior there is carried a flexible feeding tube having an end which lies against the bottom of the container. This tube has a weighted enlarged inlet formed with a multiplicity of channels. This container is filled with fluid or powder and has a screw cap retainer in which is mounted a ball valve. This valve is movable to two limits. At an inner limit air or atmosphere flows inwardly when the container is allowed to relax to its molded condition. When the container is squeezed a ball valve is moved to a closed condition whereby airpressure rapidly builds up within the container and the fluid or powder is caused to flow through the flexible tubing to a directing spout. This spout is readily mounted in the cap portion and is movable in relation to the cap by a knurled or fluted knob. In an alternate embodiment the spout may have a fan-like flare exit by which powder is sprayed or distributed from the container. The end of the inlet tube is constructed so as to have a weighted cap inlet which in one embodiment is snapped in place on a shoulder and in another instance is a solid metal disk secured in place in a recess formed in an inlet end.