Liquid dispensing apparatus
CA 2102060 A1 · Owner: Shub, Michael · Inventors: Shub, Michael
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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In general distilled water dispensers used in, commercial establishments such as drug and convenience stores are unimaginative, coin operated and often messy devices. A relatively simple substitute for such dispensers includes a large housing similar in size and shape to a soft drink dispenser, a smaller housing in the large housing with essentially only the door of the inner housing extending out of the center of the larger housing. A one three or five, gallon bottle is placed in the inner housing and the door is closed. These two actions close two switches which cause a dispensing head to descend from a rest position into the open mouth of the bottle. Movement of the dispensing head to …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed October 29, 1993. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 29, 2013.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 29, 2015.
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