Patent ID: 8262306

Claim:
An apparatus for dispensing contents, comprising a dispenser that includes an applicator tip with an elastomeric accommodating surface, a vessel having walls that contain contents, and a fluid passage from an interior of the vessel through the applicator tip to the accommodating surface, the walls configured to squeeze together under force from a non-flattened condition into a flattened condition to urge the contents to leave the vessel and pass through the fluid passage to reach the accommodating surface of the applicator tip provided the fluid passage is open, the walls being spaced further away from each other in the non-flattened condition than in the flattened condition, and mating structures arranged to mate with each other to close and seal the fluid passage until the mating structures are separated from each other to open the fluid passage, said vessel having a distal end portion formed as a rigid substructure that supports said elastomeric surface, said rigid substructure being elongated with opposite sides each with a series of spaced apart channels that extend in a direction of elongation of the rigid substructure and substantially parallel to each other.