Patent ID: 8100302

Claim:
A pump apparatus comprising: a portable container for storing and transferring liquid, said portable container having a first opening for dispensing liquid; a manually operable foot pump having an inlet opening for receiving liquid from said portable liquid container into the foot pump and an outlet opening for dispensing liquid out of the foot pump, and having a seating surface for engaging a substantially horizontal supporting surface during pumping; a coupling means for mounting the foot pump onto a liquid container adjacent said opening, such that said liquid container and the seating surface on said manually operable foot pump together form a stable base engageable on said substantially horizontal supporting surface, and wherein during pumping said liquid container and said seating surface of said manually operable foot pump are together supported by said substantially horizontal supporting surface; and, a flexible delivery tube means having a flexible delivery tube with an inlet end and an outlet end, the delivery tube at its inlet end being mountable to the manually operable foot pump to receive liquid from the manually operable foot pump as liquid is being transferred from a liquid container to permit transfer of the liquid through flexible delivery tube to the outlet end for dispensing; and, wherein said container has a top end and a bottom end, and said opening in said container is disposed adjacent said top end, and wherein, in use, said liquid container is rotated about a horizontal axis such that said seating surface engages said substantially horizontal supporting surface and said first opening is adjacent said substantially horizontal supporting surface.