Claims
- 1. A manually-operated liquid discharge container comprising:
- a container having a body;
- an actuator having a stem extending upwardly from said container body, an operation head attached on a top of said stem and provided with a discharge nozzle, and a sliding member slidably fitted and vertically slidable on an outer surface of said operation head, said sliding member having a U-shaped bail forming a finger knob, said operation head and said sliding member being formed with first and second engagement ridges, respectively, on the outer surface of said operation head and an inner surface of said sliding member, said finger knob allowing manual pulling up and depressing down of said actuator and said finger knob being oriented in the same horizontal direction as said discharge nozzle, said actuator sucking up a liquid from within said container body and discharging the liquid out of said discharge nozzle by vertical movement of said actuator.
- 2. The manually-operated liquid discharge container of claim 1, wherein said operation head is cylindrical and said sliding member is cylindrical.
- 3. The manually-operated liquid discharge container of claim 1, wherein said first engagement ridge is formed on an upper end of said operation head.
- 4. The manually-operated liquid discharge container of claim 1, wherein said second engagement ridge is formed on a lower end of said sliding member.
Priority Claims (4)
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1-55473 |
May 1989 |
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1-135213 |
Nov 1989 |
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1-136461 |
Nov 1989 |
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2-128985 |
Nov 1990 |
JPX |
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Parent Case Info
This is a division of application Ser. No. 08/352,798, filed Dec. 1, 1994, which in turn is a division of application Ser. No. 08/246,366 filed May 18, 1994, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,390,829, which in turn is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/910,272 filed Jul. 21, 1992, now abandoned.
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Divisions (2)
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246366 |
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Continuations (1)
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