Soap dispensing means

Claim 2

An irrigating apparatus for bathers including a water supply, a liquid soap supply, a manually engageable unit, an elongate flexible water hose between and communicating with the water supply and unit, an elongate liquid soap conducting tube between and communicating with the liquid soap supply and the unit, said unit including a water inlet passage communicating with the hose, a vacuum chamber, a nozzle projecting into the chamber, and communicating with the inlet passage, an outlet passage in axial alignment with said nozzle and communicating with the chamber, a delivery port communicating with the chamber remote from said nozzle and delivery passage and opening outwardly, a soap port communicating with the tube, opening outwardly and spaced from the delivery port, a manually engageable shiftable valve member carried by the unit to overly the delivery and soap ports and having a flow channel which is moved into and out of bridging communicating engagement with the soap and delivery ports and an air passage in the valve member communicating with the channel and having an open outer end adapted to be selectively opened and closed by the thumb of an operator.

Claim 3

A structure as set forth in claim 1 which further includes a valve plate shiftably carried by the valve member to intersect the air passage and having an air port normally in register with the air passage means to selectively shift the plate to move the air port therein out of register with the air passage when the member is in a position where the channel is out of bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports and to shift the plate to move the air port therein out of register with the air passage when the member is in a position where the channel is in bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports.

Claim 4

A structure as set forth in claim 1 which further includes a valve plate shiftably carried by the valve member to intersect the air passage and having an air port normally in register with the air passage means to selectively shift the plate to move the air port therein out of register with the air Passage when the member is in a position where the channel is out of bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports and to shift the plate to move the air port therein out of register with the air passage when the member is in a position where the channel is in bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports, said means to selectively shift the plate including opposite end portions on the plate projecting from the opposite ends of the valve member in line with the direction of travel of said member and stop means on said unit to engage and stop the plate upon predetermined movement of the member and to effect relative shifting of the member and plate.

Claim 5

A structure as set forth in claim 1 which further includes a valve plate shiftably carried by the valve member to intersect the air passage and having an air port normally in register with the air passage means to selectively shift the plate to move the air port therein out of register with the air passage when the member is in a position where the channel is out of bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports and to shift the plate to move the air port therein out of register with the air passage when the member is in a position where the channel is in bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports, said means to selectively shift the plate including opposite end portions on the plate projecting from the opposite ends of the valve member in line with the direction of travel of said member and stop means on said unit to engage and stop the plate upon predetermined movement of the member and to effect relative shifting of the member and plate, and spring means between the member and the plate to normally yieldingly hold the plate in a position where the air port therein is in register with the air passage.

Claim 6

A structure as set forth in claim 1 which further includes a valve plate shiftably carried by the valve member to intersect the air passage and having an air port normally in register with the air passage means to selectively shift the plate to move the air port therein out of register with the air passage when the member is in a position where the channel is out of bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports and to shift the plate to move the air port therein out of register with the air passage when the member is in a position where the channel is in bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports, said means to selectively shift the plate including opposite end portions on the plate projecting from the opposite ends of the valve member in line with the direction of travel of said member and stop means on said unit to engage and stop the plate upon predetermined movement of the member and to effect relative shifting of the member and plate, said valve member shiftable from a first position where the channel is out of bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports and the air port is out of register with the air passage to a second position where the channel is out of bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports and the air port is in register with the air passage, to a third position where the channel is in bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports and the air port is in register with the air passage and to a fourth position where the channel is in bridging communication with the delivery and air ports and the air port is out of register with the air passage.

Claim 7

A structure as set forth in claim 1 which further includes a valve plate shiftably carried by the valve member to intersect the air passage and having an air port normally in register with the air passage means to selectively shift the plate to move the air port therein out of register with the air passage when the member is in a position where the channel is out of bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports and to shift the plate to move the air port therein out of register with the air passage when the member is in a position where the channel is iN bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports, said means to selectively shift the plate including opposite end portions on the plate projecting from the opposite ends of the valve member in line with the direction of travel of said member and stop means on said unit to engage and stop the plate upon predetermined movement of the member and to effect relative shifting of the member and plate, said valve member shiftable from a first position where the channel is out of bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports and the air port is out of register with the air passage to a second position where the channel is out of bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports and the air port is in register with the air passage, to a third position where the channel is in bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports and the air port is in register with the air passage and to a fourth position where the channel is in bridging communication with the delivery and air ports and the air port is out of register with the air passage, and index means between the unit and the member to selectively and yieldingly stop and hold the member in each of said first, second, third and fourth positions.

Claim 8

A structure as set forth in claim 1 which further includes a valve plate shiftably carried by the valve member to intersect the air passage and having an air port normally in register with the air passage means to selectively shift the plate to move the air port therein out of register with the air passage when the member is in a position where the channel is out of bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports and to shift the plate to move the air port therein out of register with the air passage when the member is in a position where the channel is in bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports, said means to selectively shift the plate including opposite end portions on the plate projecting from the opposite ends of the valve member in line with the direction of travel of said member and stop means on said unit to engage and stop the plate upon predetermined movement of the member and to effect relative shifting of the member and plate, said valve member shiftable from a first position where the channel is out of bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports and the air port is out of register with the air passage to a second position where the channel is out of bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports and the air port is in register with the air passage, to a third position where the channel is in bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports and the air port is in register with the air passage and to a fourth position where the channel is in bridging communication with the delivery and air ports and the air port is out of register with the air passage, and index means between the unit and the member to selectively and yieldingly stop and hold the member in each of said first, second, third and fourth positions, said indexing means including a spring-loaded ball carried by the member and four spaced detents in the unit to cooperatively receive said ball.

Claim 9

A structure as set forth in claim 1 wherein said tube being smaller in diameter than the hose and having a longitudinally split tubular section along a portion of its longitudinal extent yieldingly engaged about and embracing an adjacent portion of the hose whereby the tube and hose are releasably retained in adjacent parallel relationship with each other throughout said portion of said tube.

Claim 10

A structure as set forth in claim 1 which further includes a valve plate shiftably carried by the valve member to intersect the air passage and having an air port normally in register with the air passage means to selectively shift the plate to move the air port therein out of register with the air passage when the member is in a position where the channel is out of bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports and to shift the plate to move thE air port therein out of register with the air passage when the member is in a position where the channel is in bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports, said means to selectively shift the plate including opposite end portions on the plate projecting from the opposite ends of the valve member in line with the direction of travel of said member and stop means on said unit to engage and stop the plate upon predetermined movement of the member and to effect relative shifting of the member and plate, and spring means between the member and the plate to normally yieldingly hold the plate in a position where the air port therein is in register with the air passage, said tube being smaller in diameter than the hose and having a longitudinally split tubular section along a portion of its longitudinal extent yieldingly engaged about and embracing an adjacent portion of the hose whereby the tube and hose are releasably retained in adjacent parallel relationship with each other throughout said portion of said tube.

Claim 11

A structure as set forth in claim 1 which further includes a valve plate shiftably carried by the valve member to intersect the air passage and having an air port normally in register with the air passage means to selectively shift the plate to move the air port therein out of register with the air passage when the member is in a position where the channel is out of bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports and to shift the plate to move the air port therein out of register with the air passage when the member is in a position where the channel is in bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports, said means to selectively shift the plate including opposite end portions on the plate projecting from the opposite ends of the valve member in line with the direction of travel of said member and stop means on said unit to engage and stop the plate upon predetermined movement of the member and to effect relative shifting of the member and plate, said valve member shiftable from a first position where the channel is out of bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports and the air port is out of register with the air passage to a second position where the channel is out of bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports and the air port is in register with the air passage, to a third position where the channel is in bridging communication with the delivery and soap ports and the air port is in register with the air passage and to a fourth position where the channel is in bridging communication with the delivery and air ports and the air port is out of register with the air passage, and index means between the unit and the member to selectively and yieldingly stop and hold the member in each of said first, second, third and fourth positions, said indexing means including a spring-loaded ball carried by the member and four spaced detents in the unit to cooperatively receive said ball, said tube being smaller in diameter than the hose and having a longitudinally split tubular section along a portion of its longitudinal extent yieldingly engaged about and embracing an adjacent portion of the hose whereby the tube and hose are releasably retained in adjacent parallel relationship with each other throughout said portion of said tube.