Patent ID: 11971132
Assignee: OP-HYGIENE IP GMBH
Field: Furniture, games (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A  F | IPC A  F

Claim 0:
1. A free standing dispenser assembly comprising:
a free standing support stand supported on a horizontal floor,
the stand having an upper end and a lower end,
the stand having at the lower end floor engaging surfaces to engage the floor,
wherein with the floor engaging surfaces engaging the floor, the dispenser assembly is supported in a free standing upright position on the floor with the stand extending upwardly about a vertical axis from the lower end to the upper end,
the dispenser assembly including a fluid dispenser carried by the stand for discharging a fluid from a discharge outlet spaced upwardly from the lower end of the stand,
the dispenser assembly including a fall arrest bumper member,
the dispenser assembly carrying the bumper member spaced upwardly from the lower end of the stand,
the bumper member having a radially outwardly directed bumper surface located radially outwardly from the vertical axis,
the lower end of the stand having pivot surfaces about which the dispenser assembly when in the upright position will, if sufficient lateral forces are applied to the dispenser assembly spaced upwardly from the lower end of the stand, pivot engaged with the floor, tipping the dispenser assembly from the upright position to a tipped prone position in which the dispenser assembly is supported on the floor by engagement between the floor and both the pivot surfaces and the bumper surface,
the bumper surface provided at circumferential locations about the axis, axially spaced from the lower end of the stand and radially outwardly from the axis such that when the dispenser assembly is tipped in any radial direction relative the axis from the upright position toward the prone position with the pivot surfaces remaining engaged with the floor, the bumper surface will engage with the floor before other surfaces of the dispenser assembly come to engage the floor.