Soft food dispenser

摘要

A dispenser for soft foods and the like including a thin-walled container having a piston assembly threaded to one end and including a cap element having an aperture in the end surface, a piston head within the container, a coil spring extending through the aperture and a knob rotatably connected to the cap and fixed to the other end of the spring. Rotation of the knob compresses the spring in the region between the piston head and cap end surface to store energy for dispensing the food. A dispenser assembly is threaded to the opposite end of the container and includes a nozzle, a container outlet in communication with the nozzle and a valve element for opening and closing the outlet. A spring-biased actuator element has a rack portion engaging a pinion portion of the valve element, and the actuator element is moved by a handle lever pivoted to the container.