Skin lotion dispenser and applicator

Claim 1

A combination dispenser and applicator for a liquid skin care product comprising: an elongated hollow handle composed of flexible material having a cylindrical portion supporting a conical, tapered portion; said cylindrical portion having a thicker cross-section than that of said conical portion; said handle holding a quantity of liquid skin care product and the sidewalls thereof being thin-walled to permit manual squeezing thereof to expel said skin care product through a dispensing nozzle at the apex end of said conical portion; a one-way valve carried on said apex end allowing passage of said skin care product externally of said dispenser nozzle in response to said manual squeezing; an applicator removably carried on one end of said handle about said dispensing nozzle for receiving said skin care product via said one-way valve when said thin-walled handle is squeezed; said handle having an exterior surface about said cylindrical portion provided with a plurality of parallel ridges constituting frictional, non-slip finger-gripping means; a base removably carried on the end of said handle opposite to its end carrying said applicator supporting said handle in an upright at rest or storage position; said applicator comprising an oval-shaped hollow member having opposite spaced-apart walls joined at their ends by curved sections, a selected one of said walls provided with a plurality of spaced-apart openings extending in a vertical linear line midway between said curved sections for dispensing said skin care product therethrough externally of said handle; each of said openings being of a different diameter with the largest diameter opening at the top of said line and the smallest diameter at the bottom of said line; and said openings operable to control the flow through said dispensing applicator member.