US Patent Issued to GOJO Industries on Jan. 13 for "Foam-at-a-distance dispensers having small volume pump chambers and valve arrangements for same" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,738, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GOJO Industries Inc. (Akron, Ohio).

"Foam-at-a-distance dispensers having small volume pump chambers and valve arrangements for same" was invented by Donald R. Harris (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary foam-at-a-distance dispenser includes a container for holding a fluid, a housing, a dispensing outlet, a motor and a pump. The pump has two or more air pump diaphragms, a liquid pump diaphragm, a liquid inlet, an inner valve plate, two or more air inlet valves secured to the inner valve plate, a liquid inlet valve secured to the inner valve plate, an outer valve sup...