Patent ID: 7757905
Filing Date: 2010-07-20
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. An aerosol spray actuator comprising: an actuator base having a bottom end continuously supported by an aerosol container, and a top opening for engaging an actuator button retained by the actuator base; a product passageway extending from a product receiving port to a product outlet for dispensing contents of the aerosol container into the environment; an operative position enabling relative axial movement between the actuator base and the actuator button and a non-operative position of the aerosol spray actuator wherein the non-operative position interrupts relative axial movement between the actuator button and the actuator base so that any pressurized product in the aerosol container will not be dispensed, and one of the button and the actuator base are relatively radially rotatable between the operative position and the non-operative position an axial displacement means is provided for changing the axial relationship of the actuator button during relative radial rotation between the operative position and the non-operative position; a plurality of horizontal support surfaces circumferentially spaced around the base to engage a lower edge of the button in the non-operative position and prevent relative axial movement between the button and the base; and a relief formed in the lower edge of the button which is radially aligned with the horizontal support surface inside the base in the operative position to permit relative axial movement between the button and the base.