Reservoir dispenser

Claim 1

A reservoir dispenser comprising a liquid container having a manually-operable, vertically-reciprocal pump thereon including a reservoir-forming cup which is depressible to operate said pump, said cup including a bottom, an upright side wall, and an open upper end located substantially above said bottom, and a reduced diameter inlet passageway from said pump enters the cup through said bottom; and the improvement, comprising: an imperforate disc in the cup having area dimension substantially greater than the reduced diameter inlet passageway; and disc-mounting means supporting said disc in a fixed position close to the bottom of said cup and over the upper end of the inlet passageway with its periphery and under side in spaced relation to side wall and bottom portions respectively of said cup to form diffuser passageway means through which the liquid will flood into said cup rather than enter as a stream, said disc having an upper surface of substantial area to be contacted by absorbent swab placed into the cup for wetting said swab upon being forced downwardly on said disc functioning to depress said cup for operating said pump; said disc-mounting means including a stem depending from the underside of said disc into said reduced diameter passageway, said stem being dimensioned to incompletely block said reduced diameter passageway and having means outstanding therefrom to span between opposite walls of said reduced diameter passageway lodging said stem therein against longitudinal movement.