Household spray apparatus

Claim 1

A household spray device for the spraying of liquids without air polluting propellants which comprises an open top canister for the reception of the liquid to be sprayed, a cap detachably mounted on said canister closing the open top thereof, an electric motor mounted in said cap, a pump mounted in said cap driven by said motor, a spray nozzle on said cap, said pump having an inlet conduit depending from the cap into the bottom of the canister, and an outlet supplying liquid to said spray nozzle, a bypass passageway in said cap between the pump outlet and spray nozzle returning liquid from the pump to said canister, a valve controlling flow through said bypass passageway, a battery mounted in said cap for energizing said electric motor, a switch in said cap having an actuator controlling current flow from said battery to said motor, and a single means including a valve stem rigidly connected to the switch actuator which valve stem operates to close the valve in the bypass passageway, said single means being mounted in said cap and accessible from the exterior of the cap to be manually actuated for successively closing said switch and said valve and for successively opening said valve and said switch whereby the pump will initially recirculate liquid back to the canister before discharging the liquid through the spray nozzle and liquid will drain back to the canister to prevent dripping of liquid from the nozzle when the pump is stopped.