Dispensing cap for squeeze bottle containing liquid products

Claim 1

A DISPENSING CAP ARRANGEMENT COMPRISING: A CAP ELEMENT, INCLUDING A BODY PORTION HAVING MOUNTING MEANS FOR SECURING THE CAP ELEMENT TO A COUNTER AND INCLUDING A SLEEVE PORTION HAVING A BORE OPENING INTO SAID BODY PORTION; AND A VALVE ELEMENT ADAPTED FOR ASSEMBLY WITH SAID CAP ELEMENT, INCLUDING UPPER AND LOWER ABUTMENT PORTIONS HAVING STOP SURFACES ENGAGEABLE RESPECTIVELY WITH THE OPPOSITE ENDS OF SAID SLEEVE PORTION TO ESTABLISH A CLOSED AND A DISPENSING CONDITION OF WITH VALVE ELEMENT, SAID VALVE ELEMENT FURTHER INCLUDING A STEM PORTION OF GREATER LENGTH THAN SAID SLEEVE PORTION CONNECTABLY DISPOSED BETWEEN SAID ABUTMENT PORTIONS AND SLIDABLY RECEIVED IN SAID SLEEVE PORTION, SAID LOWER ABUTMENT PORTION AND SAID STEM PORTION HAVING COMMON CHANNEL OPENING LATERALLY THROUGH SAID STEM PORTION TO DEFINE A DISPENSING ORIFICE AND OPENING THROUGH A WALL OF SAID LOWER ABUTMENT PORTION TO PASS MATERIAL TO BE DISPENSED TO SAID ORIFICE, SAID CHANNEL HAVING AN UPPER END SURFACE SPACED FROM SAID UPPER ABUTMENT PORTION, SAID STEM PORTION HAVING A RADIALLY OUTWARDLY PROJECTING RIB DISPOSED IN ENCOMPASSING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SAID END SURFACE AND SAID UPPER ABUTMENT PORTION AND SAID STEM PORTION FURTHER HAVING AN OUTER WALL TAPERED FROM A LARGER DIMENSION AT SAID LOWER ABUTMENT PORTION TO A SMALLER DIMENSION AT SAID UPPER ABUTMENT PORTION, SO CONSTRUCTED AND ARRANGED AS TO BIAS THE STOP SURFACE OF SAID LOWER ABUTMENT PORTION RADIALLY OUTWARDLY TO PRESERVE THE ASSEMBLY CONDITION OF SAID CAP AND VALVE ELEMENTS AND TO COOPERATE WITH SAID RIB IN DEFINING UPPER AND LOWER SEALS OPERATIVE RESPECTIVELY IN THE CLOSED AND DISPENSING CONDITIONS OF SAID VALVE ELEMENT.