Aerosol dispenser particularly useful as a pocket fire extinguisher

Claim 1

An aerosol dispenser, comprising: a housing including side, bottom and top walls defining an internal compartment and having a plurality of outlet openings in a side wall oriented in the same direction laterally of the housing; a plurality of aerosol containers disposed within the internal compartment of the housing in side-by-side relationship; each aerosol container including a depressible valve member within the housing and a dispensing nozzle aligned with one of said housing outlet openings through which the contents of the container are dispensed upon depression of the respective valve member; and a movable dispenser operator pivotable at the top of the housing and including a single depressible element externally of the housing and a plurality of actuating elements internally of the housing each engagable with the valve member of one of the aerosol containers, all said internal actuating elements being actuated by said single external manipulatable element to depress all the valve members simultaneously upon depression of the depressible element; said housing further including a blocking element located to block the depression of the single depressible element, said blocking element being integrally formed with the housing and being jointed by a weakened juncture to a portion of its wall underlying said depressible element so that the forceful removal of the blocking element provides a recess in the housing wall permitting the depression of the depressible element of the dispenser operator.