It's a cap that fits 2 liter plastic bottles (pop bottles etc). Fed through it is a short gooseneck with a fine spray nozzle and a pickup tube about as long as a bottle.. and in parallel, a schraeder valve that vents just inside the cap.
To use: fill halfway with water, apply cap. Pump up. Spray. Wash up hands or dishes or water whatever else in sparing quantities.
The shut-off valve could be a setting of an adjustable nozzle to simplify the plumbing.
[edit] formerly 'hobo's fountain'-- afinehowdoyoudo, Mar 10 2010 Following your instructions https://www.flickr....t-72157645671487432 [pashute, Sep 17 2014] I think someone else gave better instructions... http://www.instruct...d-2-liter/?ALLSTEPS [pashute, Sep 17 2014] maybe we should have a homeless/hobo category for ideas ... the pump-action container of course being incredibly well baked.
Now if you can figure a way to get B.Fuller's "Dymaxion Shower Head" to work...-- FlyingToaster, Mar 10 2010 Yes - garden sprayers and other air-over-liquid dispensers exist. But this device has no container and no pump-action. Those functions are delegated to more-readily-available local materials, to slim the device down to a minimum.
Speaking of a minimum.. there is a point where a fine mist does little cleaning. But theres a few orders of magnitude between that flow and the result of pouring straight from a 2-li-- afinehowdoyoudo, Mar 10 2010 Next up: Hobo Orrery. [edit]^^^referring to previous idea name [edit ii] not my bone-- swimswim, Mar 10 2010 so why do orrery ideas get truckloads of pastry while i get boned for an original invention. hm?-- afinehowdoyoudo, Mar 11 2010 charity bun for a reformed hobo idea +-- rcarty, Mar 11 2010 I forgot.. it's not the Happy Cuddle Club. Thanks for not letting me go dry-- afinehowdoyoudo, Mar 11 2010 this would have a good illustration-- daseva, Mar 11 2010 could you make a quick drawing? use Paint Online from onemotion-- pashute, Sep 17 2014 It's a pump sprayer minus the tank, using a found 2L sodapop bottle to hold the liquid.-- FlyingToaster, Sep 17 2014 random, halfbakery