Patent ID: 8122522

Claim:
A metering dispenser for release of a product into a WC bowl of a toilet, comprising a fixing region which is constructed in order to fix the metering dispenser in the region of the toilet under a WC lid, and a storage container ( 20 ) for accommodating the product, wherein said storage container ( 20 ) is constructed for accommodating a plurality of spherical pre-portioned products ( 30 ), and a delivery device ( 41 , 43 , 51 a, b ), which is constructed in order to deliver at least one of said pre-portioned products from the storage container into said WC bowl, said delivery device including an intermediate storage channel for receiving a plurality of said pre-portioned products when said metering dispenser is tilted in a first direction, said intermediate storage channel having an inlet connected to said storage container for receiving said products and an outlet spaced from said inlet; a delivery channel having an inlet end communicating with said outlet of said intermediate storage channel and an outlet spaced from said inlet end; and an opening between said intermediate channel and said delivery channel having a dimension to feed a predetermined number of said pre-portioned products by gravity into said inlet end of said delivery channel when said dispenser is tilted in said first direction and where said predetermined number of products in said delivery channel are dispensed by gravity through said delivery channel outlet when said dispenser is tilted in a second direction, and said products in said intermediate channel are retained in said intermediate channel.