Patent ID: 8550308

Claim:
An apparatus for storing fluid and dispensing multiple portions of the stored fluid therefrom, comprising: a container defining a variable-volume storage chamber for receiving therein the fluid; a one-way dispensing valve including a valve inlet coupled in fluid communication with the variable volume storage chamber, a valve member in fluid communication with the valve inlet and defining a normally-closed valve opening, wherein the valve member is responsive to fluid at the valve inlet exceeding a valve opening pressure to move between (i) a normally closed position, and (ii) an open position permitting fluid flow through the valve opening, and wherein the one-way dispensing valve defines a dispensing axis defining a direction substantially along which fluid is dispensed from the one-way dispensing valve, and the valve further includes an outlet surface over which dispensed fluid that has exited the valve opening flows oriented at an acute angle relative to the dispensing axis, wherein the outlet surface further defines a lower edge, and the lower edge has a substantially single lowermost portion of the lower edge, configured to prevent collection of residual dispensed fluid on the outlet surface; and a pump coupled between the variable-volume storage chamber and one-way dispensing valve for pumping fluid from the variable-volume storage chamber through the one-way dispensing valve.