Patent ID: 8286830

Claim:
An aerosol actuator for actuating an aerosol valve of an aerosol container, said actuator comprising in combination a top portion and a bottom portion, said bottom portion being mountable on the aerosol container, said top portion being mounted on said bottom portion, said top portion being rotatable with respect to said bottom portion between a first position for actuating the aerosol valve and a second position wherein the aerosol valve cannot be actuated; said top portion being a unitary member and in said first position being depressible as a whole in a vertical direction to actuate the aerosol valve; said bottom portion including an integral product channel connectable at one end to the aerosol valve and having a nozzle for expelling product at the other end; said top portion when vertically depressed acting to depress said product channel to actuate the aerosol valve; said product channel having a plurality of flexible laterally extending spring members associated therewith, and said top portion having a corresponding plurality of depending spring-biasing members that overlie, contact and slightly depress said plurality of spring members only when said top portion is rotated to said first position; said spring members urging said spring-biasing members and accordingly said top portion upwardly when said top portion is in said first position, including when said product channel member has returned to its non-depressed position following product dispensing.