Patent ID: 7674061

Claim:
A dispenser for a cosmetic fluid comprising: a bottle for a fluid having a side-wall defining a mouth and having an exterior face and an interior face a flow regulating outlet mounted on the mouth of the bottle comprising a housing having an inward end in fluid communication with the mouth of the bottle, an opposed outward end and a side-wall, extending between the inward end and the outward end and having an interior that is adapted to retain a flow regulator, the side-wall of the housing and the side-wall of the bottle each being provided with means for mounting the housing on the bottle at or adjacent to the inward end of the housing and a cap for the outward end of the housing removably mountable on the housing or bottle, in which the side-wall of the housing overlaps axially with the bottle side-wall, either internally or externally, to create an overlap zone and the means for mounting the housing on the bottle comprises (a) co-operating snap-fit annular beads or bead and groove on contiguous faces of the housing and bottle side walls and (b) a plurality of opposed sets of anti-rotation elements positioned in the overlap zone peripherally around the mouth of the bottle, each set comprising a lug mounted on one of the housing side-wall and bottle side-wall and a socket defined by the other of the housing side-wall and bottle side-wall, and wherein the dispenser further comprises one or more annular, unbroken, flexible, anti-leakage blades mounted in the interface between the housing and bottle side walls, wherein the housing comprises a spider mounted within the housing intermediate between the flow regulator and the inward end.