Dispensing device

• US 3,325,050 A
• Filed: 12/04/1964
• Issued: 06/13/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Donald E. Wanamaker
• Original Assignee: Donald E. Wanamaker
• Inventors: Wanamaker, Donald E.
• Application Number:
  US04/416,046
• Time in Patent Office: 921 Days
• US Class Current: 221/25
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/00 Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents dispensing means incorporated in removable or non-permanently secured container closures B65D47/00; for shops, stores, offices, bars, or the like A47F1/04; showcases or show cabinets with dispensing arrangements A47F3/02; magazines for screws or nuts in combination with spanners, wrenches or screwdrivers B25B23/06; for use in connection with the handling of sheets, webs, or filamentary material B65H
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 206/82 Separable, striplike plural articles

Claims

1. A DISPENSING DEVICE COMPRISING AN OUTER HOUSING HAVING AN END FLAP PROJECTING THEREFROM;

AN INNER HOUSING DISPOSED WITHIN SAID OUTER HOUSING WHICH IS OPEN AT ITS TOP AND HAVING A DOWNWARDLY AND OUTWARDLY INCLINED FRONT WALL, THE UPPER EDGE OF SAID INCLINED FRONT WALL TERMINATING AT A LEVEL BELOW THE TOP WALL OF SAID OUTER HOUSING AND COOPERATING THEREWITH TO DEFINE A FIRST OPENING;

A CONTINUOUS RIBBON COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF INDIVIDUALLY DETACHABLE ENVELOPES EACH OF WHICH ENCASES AT LEAST ONE OF THE ARTICLES TO BE DISPENSED, SAID RIBBON BEING DISPOSED WITHIN SAID INNER CONTAINER;

SAID END FLAP OF SAID OUTER HOUSING OVERLYING SAID INCLINED FRONT WALL;

MEANS FOR DETACHABLY SECURING SAID END FLAP TO SAID INCLINED FRONT WALL;

AND MEANS FORMING AN ENLARGEABLE SLIT IN SAID END FLAP ADJACENT TO THE TOP WALL OF SAID OUTER HOUSING FOR PROVIDING AN ENLARGEABLE SECOND OPENING THROUGH WHICH SAID RIBBON AND THE ENCASED ARTICLES MAY PASS.