Dispenser

• US 3,226,171 A
• Filed: 02/26/1963
• Issued: 12/28/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kenji Yoshizumi, William A. Fitzgerald Jr
• Original Assignee: Kenji Yoshizumi, William A. Fitzgerald Jr
• Inventors: Fitzgerald, William A. Jr., KENJI YOSHIZUMI
• Application Number:
  US04/262,287
• Time in Patent Office: 1,036 Days
• US Class Current: 312/42
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 1/08 dispensing from bottom
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 13/51 Storing of cleaning tools, e.g. containers therefor

Claims

1. A DISPENSER FOR HOUSEHOLD ARTICLES AND THE LIKE, COMPRISING A HOUSING HAVING EXTENDING THEREWITHIN AN ELONGATED PASSAGEWAY FORMED TO PERMIT THE TRANSIT OF ARTICLES THERETHROUGH, SAID PASSAGEWAY TERMINATING AT ONE END IN AN APERTURE FOR RECEIVING SAID ARTICLES AND AT ITS OTHER END IN A FURTHER APERTURE FOR THE DISCHARGE OF SAID ARTICLES, SAID ARTICLE-RECEIVING APERTURE BEING BOUNDED BY A RIM OF SAID HOUSING, A RECEPTACLE FOR RETAINING AT LEAST ONE OF SAID ARTICLES, MEANS ON SAID RECEPTACLE FOR HOLDING SAID RECEPTACLE AT SAID RECEIVING APERTURE, MEANS ON SAID HOUSING FOR HOLDING SAID RECEPTACLE AT SAID APERTURE, SAID MEANS ON SAID RECEPTACLE COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF SPACED FLANGES JOINED TO SAID RECEPTACLE AT THE TOP EDGE OF A WALL THEREOF AND EXTENDING THEREFROM TO A POSITION IN WHICH THEY OVERLIE AND CONTACT SAID RIM WHEN SAID RECEPTACLE IS AT ARTICLE-RECEIVING POSITION, SID MEANS ON SAID HOUSING INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF SPACED SEAT MEMBERS JOINED TO SAID HOUSING AND EXTENDING THEREFROM INTO SAID PASSAGEWAY TO A LOCATION AT WHICH THEY CONTACT AND SUPPORT SAID RECEPTACLE AT THE ARTICLE RECEIVING POSITION BUT PERMIT PASSAGE OF ARTICLES BY SAID SEAT MEMBERS WHEN SAID RECEPTACLE IS REMOVED FROM THE ARTICLE RECEIVING POSITION, SAID FLANGES AND SEAT MEMBERS COOPERATING TO JOINTLY SUPPORT THE RECEPTACLE AT THE ARTICLE RECEIVING POSITION, AND A COVER MOVABLY MOUNTED BETWEEN OPEN POSITION IN WHICH IT PERMITS ACCESS TO SAID RECEPTACLE AT ARTICLE-RECEIVING POSITION AND CLOSED POSITION IN WHICH IT ABUTS SAID FLANGE AND OVERLIES SAID RECEPTACLE, SAID COVER HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY PLANAR SURFACE INTEGRAL THEREWITH AND DISPOSED TO ABUT SAID FLANGE IN CLOSE POSITION, SAID COVER IN CLOSED POSITION BEING SPACED FROM SAID RIM AT REGIONS THEREOF ADJACENT SAID FLANGE TO PROVIDE AN OPENING BETWEEN SAID RIM AND SAID PLANAR SURFACE FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS OF AIR TO AND FROM SAID ARTICLE IN SAID RECEPTACLE.