A hand sanitizer suspension assembly for suspending hand sanitizer from a work surface includes a clamp that has a pair of jaws biased together to engage an edge of a work surface. A shaft is coupled to and extends downwardly from a respective one of the jaws and a pivot is coupled to the shaft. A grapple is coupled to the pivot such that the grapple is pivotable around the shaft. A bottle is provided that contains liquid hand sanitizer. A hand pump is removably attached to the bottle to dispense the liquid hand sanitizer when the hand pump is manipulated. A disk attached to the hand pump and the grapple engages the disk for suspending the bottle from the work surface.

Automatic electric actuation of the pump of a liquid dispenser apparatus is provided by a stepper motor having a threaded hollow liquid-conducting tube positioned therein and configured such that motor drives the hollow tube up and down in response to supply of a plurality of electrical pulses thereto. A lower end of the hollow tube is constructed to inter-fit with a stem of the pump such that driving the hollow tube up and down creates a pumping action.

A system for dispensing a personal care fluid, such as a hand soap or the like. The system includes a dispenser and a refill cartridge. The dispenser includes a dispenser body having a refill cavity and a dispenser lid configured to be coupled to the dispenser body. There may be a pump sub-system mounted to the dispenser lid, or alternatively the personal care fluid may be dispensed by squeezing the dispenser and refill cartridge. The refill cartridge is configured for slidable insertion into and removal from the refill cavity of the dispenser body. The personal care fluid system is designed so that a user can readily and easily change out/replace the refill cartridge for use with a common dispenser, dispenser lid, and pump sub-system.

The invention deals with a dispenser 1 of a cleaning and/or sanitizing solution with a radiofrequency communication module 2B for remote monitoring by a portable communication device UL to deliver a preset dose of the cleaning and/or sanitizing solution. The invention also deals with a control process 6 of such a dispenser 1, wherein the control process 6 includes an identification step 62 of the portable communication device UL by the dispenser 1 and—under condition of authorization after identification—a step of release 63 of the cleaning and/or sanitizing solution.

An all plastic compression spring assembly includes a slotted tubular spring element formed from a tensile polymer material and upper and lower loading cones received at opposing upper and lower ends of the slotted tubular spring element. The upper loading cone may be axially compressible towards the lower loading cone within the slotted tubular spring element whereby the slotted tubular spring element radially expands in tension to create an opposing radial contraction force, and in turn, an axial extension spring force. When released, the spring element elastically returns to its normal at rest shape, returning the cones to their normal at rest positions. In some dispenser configurations, the lower loading cone may be stationary or fixed within the dispensing head and the upper loading cone may be downwardly compressible toward the lower loading cone by movement of a nozzle head.

A lotion pump includes a movable portion and a stationary portion. A shifting mechanism is formed on the movable portion and the stationary portion, which shifts the elastic restoring mechanism of the lotion pump between a standby state and a non-standby state as the movable portion rotates or moves up and down. The structure of the lotion pump can prevent the spring from yielding due to compressed for a long time, while can also realize a form of locking at lower position.

A method of filling a fluid dispenser is provided and a method for operating power driven pump in a dispenser is provided.

A lockable receptacle holder 10 comprising a holder base portion 20 configured to support the bottom 5 of a receptacle 1; a holder upper portion 30 and an elongated holder back portion 40 extending between the holder base portion 20 and the holder upper portion 30, wherein the holder base portion 20 and the holder upper portion 30 extend laterally from the holder back portion 40 and parallel to each other, and wherein; - the holder upper portion 30 comprises a closed space C configured to at least partially enclose and releasably confine the neck 2 or shoulder 3 of a receptacle placed on the holder base portion 20, and; - a cap locking member 80 for preventing removal of a cap 9 of a receptacle 1 in the receptacle holder 10.

The present invention relates to an ornamental tactile sanitizer dispenser device for vehicles. The dispenser device functions to tactilely dispense sanitizer for a user and as an ornamental prayer device. The device can be mounted to a dashboard of the vehicle such that the sanitizer device remains within an arm's reach of the driver, thereby enabling the driver to tactilely obtain sanitizer using one hand while controlling the vehicle using the other hand. The device in one embodiment has a pair of bobblehead prayer hands and in another embodiment has a pair of thumbs up hand design. The device comes in a first variant where a nozzle is manually depressed to obtain sanitizer, and a second variant that includes a proximity sensor to automatically depress the nozzle to dispense sanitizer upon detecting a human hand under a nozzle.

A method of filling a fluid dispenser is provided and a method for operating power driven pump in a dispenser is provided.