Dispensers

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10119287-B2
Application number	US-201414544166-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 4, 2014
Priority date	Feb 21, 2014
Publication date	Nov 6, 2018
Grant date	Nov 6, 2018

Abstract

A two-part dispensing device for a pool having a dispensing saddle with a static port therein for continual delivery of a first dispersant and a hold for floatingly supporting itself and an exchangeable dispensing pod therein with the dispensing pod having a dynamic port and a static port for a continual delivery of a dispersant wherein the static port delivery of a dispersant maintains the pool at a safe level when there is no human bather load on the pool and the condition of the disperant in the dispensing pod can be determined by the orientation of the dispensing saddle and the dispensing pod in the pool.

First claim

We claim:

1. A two-part dispensing device for floating in a body of water such as a pool comprising:
a dispenser for underwater delivery of a first dispersant with the dispenser having a housing with an open hold located in the dispenser;
a float for buoyantly supporting said housing in a body of water;
a ballast for affecting a flotation orientation of the dispenser; and
a dispensing pod having dispensing ports with the dispensing pod containing a nonbuoyant dispersant, said dispensing pod located in said open hold and secured to the dispenser to maintain the two-part dispensing device in a first orientation when the nonbuoyant dispersant is in an unspent condition and in a second orientation, which is visually different from the first orientation, when the nonbuoyant dispersant is in a spent condition, said dispensing pod removably secured to the housing for replacement of a spent dispensing pod with a fresh dispensing pod, said dispensing pod including a set of finger releasable resilient cantilevered latches with one of the set of finger releasable cantilevered latches located on a one side of the dispensing pod and the other of the set of finger releasable cantilevered latches located on an opposite side of the dispensing pod with each of the resilient cantilevered latches extending outward from the dispensing pod for resiliently retracting in response to sliding the dispensing pod into the open hold of the dispenser, said set of finger releasable cantilever latches shielded from accidentally opening by a set of latch guards located proximate each of the set of finger releasable cantilevered latches with the set of latch guards laterally spaced from the releasable cantilever latches so as not to interfere with a compressible release of the dispensing pod from engagement with the dispenser through a squeezing together the releasable cantilevered latches between a finger and a thumb of a user.

2. The two-part dispensing device of claim 1 wherein the nonbuoyant dispersant comprises chlorine.

3. The two-part dispensing device of claim 1 wherein the ballast comprises the first dispersant and the first dispersant comprise minerals and a silver ion yielding material.

4. The two-part dispensing device of claim 1 wherein the dispensing pod has an elongated shape with at least a portion of the dispensing pod located extending outward from the dispenser.

5. The two-part dispensing device of claim 1 wherein the dispenser has a static port located on each side of the dispenser and the dispensing ports of the dispensing pod includes a dynamic port for controlling an ingress and egress of water therethrough and a static port that remains in an open condition during a pool season, with a said static port of the dispenser and said static port of the dispensing pod sized for maintaining a pool without delivery of the disperant from the dynamic port of the dispensing pod, said dynamic port of the dispensing pod located on an underside of the dispensing pod as the dispensing pod is floatingly supported in the body of water, said static port in the dispenser located below a water line but above the static port in the dispensing pod when the nonbuoyant dispersant in the dispensing pod is in an unspent condition.

6. The two-part dispensing device of claim 1 wherein the dispenser has a top hemispherical like shape and a peripheral band that separates a top portion of the dispenser from the bottom portion of the dispenser with the bottom portion of the dispenser including a first bottom housing extension and a second bottom housing extension with both the first bottom housing extension and the second bottom housing extension extending from an underside of the dispenser to form the open hold into an open bottom belly hold therein with the first extension and the second extension comprising spaced apart sidewalls for supporting the dispensing pod therebetween.

7. The two-part dispensing device of claim 6 wherein each of the extensions include a lip for engagement with a side of the dispensing pod.

8. The two-part dispensing device of claim 1 wherein the dispensing pod includes a hook for retaining the dispensing pod in an isolated dispensing condition below a water line in a body of water when the non-buoyant dispersant therein is not fully consumed to thereby deliver any remaining nonbuoyant dispersant into the body of water and avoid wasting of an unspent nonbuoyant disperant in the dispensing pod.

9. The two-part dispensing device of claim 1 wherein the dispensing pod has a planar top surface for engagement with a mating underside of the dispenser and a bottom with a variable inlet for controlling a rate of delivery of the nonbuoyant dispersant into the body of water without affecting the delivery rate of the first dispersant from the two-part dispensing device.

10. The two-part dispensing device of claim 9 wherein the nonbuoyant dispersant in the dispensing pod comprise a halogen and the dispensing pod dispensing ports include at least one water port therein that remains in open condition for continually releasing the halogen from the dispensing pod even when the variable inlet in the dispensing pod is in a closed condition, said water port in said dispensing pod of sufficient size to normally maintain a swimming pool in a sanitized condition when there is no human activity in the swimming pool.

11. The two-part dispensing device of claim 1 wherein the dispenser includes an ear extending at a first angle from the dispenser and a side extension extending at an acute angle with respect to the angle of the ear with the ear and the side extension spaced from each other so that a user can simultaneously grasp the ear and the side extension between a finger and a thumb in one hand to lift the two-part dispensing device from the body of water.

12. The two-part dispensing device of claim 1 wherein the open hold is formed by two lateral sides and an underside in the dispenser and the open hold is located along a central axis of the dispenser.

13. The two-part dispensing device of claim 1 wherein the ballast comprises a non dissolvable dispersant and the non dissolvable dispersant comprises minerals and the dispensing pod contains a halogen of either chlorine or bromine.

14. The two-part dispensing device of claim 1 including a flotation insert therein with the ballast located above the flotation insert with a center of mass of the ballast offset from a central axis of the dispenser to provide a rotational torque to the dispensing device when the dispensing device is floating in a body of water wherein the torque applied to the dispensing device is insufficient to rotate the dispensing device when the nonbuoyant dispersant in the dispensing pod is in an unspent condition.

15. The two-part dispensing device of claim 1 including a flange with an opening therein for tethering the two-part dispensing device to a pool structure and the ballast has a trapezoidal shape.

16. The two-part dispensing device of claim 15 wherein dispenser comprises a dispensing saddle and the dispensing pod is secured to the dispensing saddle so that the dispensing saddle and the dispensing pod rotate as a unit in the body of water as the nonbuoyant dispersant is consumed to visually alert an operator to replace the nonbuoyant dispersant.

17. A two-part dispensing device for floating in a body of water such as a pool comprising:
a dispenser for underwater delivery of a first dispersant with the dispenser having a housing with an open hold located in the dispenser, said dispenser having a top hemispherical-like shape and a peripheral band

Assignees

• King Joseph A
• Johnson Jeffrey
• Freeberg Paul
• Guy David
• Goemen Terry
• King Tech Inc

Inventors

• King Joseph A
• Johnson Jeffrey
• Freeberg Paul
• Guy David
• Goemen Terry

Classifications

• B01F13/0049

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• C02F1/688 Primary

  Devices in which the water progressively dissolves a solid compound · CPC title

• B01F1/0027

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• C02F2103/42

  from bathing facilities, e.g. swimming pools · CPC title

• E04H4/1281 Primary

  Devices for distributing chemical products in the water of swimming pools · CPC title