Patent ID: 7472810

Claim:
A dosing dispenser for dispensing predetermined quantities of a flowable material, comprising: a housing for receiving a bulk quantity of the flowable material and including a flow passageway for the flowable material; and a dosing device underlying said flow passageway and manually movable from a first limit position to a second limit position, and then movable back to said first limit position; said dosing device including a dosing compartment located to align its upper end with said flow passageway of the housing when the dosing device is in said second limit position for filling with said flowable material, and to dispense the flowable material from the housing through the lower end of the dosing compartment when the dosing device is moved back to said first limit position; said dosing dispenser further comprising a restraining device effective when said dosing device has been moved away from said first limit position towards said second limit position, to restrain a return movement of the dosing device back to said first limit position until the dosing device has first completed its movement to said second limit position, to thereby prevent dispensing less than the predetermined quantity of the flowable material by only a partial filling of the dosing compartment.