Patent ID: 6971557

Claim:
An actuator for use with a pressurized material dispenser containing a material to be dispensed and having a valve, the actuator comprising: a skirt suitable for being secured to the dispenser; and a trigger linked to the skirt via a web in a manner permitting relative movement between the trigger and skirt, the trigger comprising: a flow conduit terminating at one end in a means for mating with the valve in material-transmitting relation and for activating the valve when the trigger is moved toward the dispenser to thereby dispense contents of the dispenser via the flow conduit, the flow conduit terminating at an opposite end from said one end at a hollow flow diverter; wherein said flow diverter has a side wall and an axial opening facing said conduit at one end of the flow diverter, a wall at an end of diverter opposite said one end of the flow diverter, and at least 4 radially opening slots in the side wall and in communication with the diverter axial opening; the trigger also comprising a discharge chamber radially outward from said radially opening slots, the chamber being in communication with said slots and having an outer side wall with a plurality of recesses separated by deflection regions, at least one of the deflection regions having a portion that is circumferentially aligned with respect to one of the radially opening slots of the flow diverter; and wherein the actuator is configured such that when linked to said pressurized material dispenser it is suitable to deliver the material to be dispensed in an axial direction.