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SLIDE DISPENSER

  • US 3,589,557 A
  • Filed: 04/03/1969
  • Issued: 06/29/1971
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/03/1969
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Apparatus for storing and dispensing rectangular platelike objects, such as slides, having substantially flat upper and lower surfaces and substantially straight end edges, which apparatus comprises a magazine having a boxlike cavity capable of storing a plurality of such objects in stacked relation, means in said cavity biasing the topmost object stacked therein to a predetermined position, said magazine also having an opening positioned to permit said topmost object to be withdrawn from said cavity by endwise movement, means for preventing more than said topmost object from being withdrawn from said cavity when said topmost object is withdrawn through said opening, supporting track means adjacent said opening adapted to receive and support one of said objects for longitudinal movement therealong, said track means and cavity being positioned such that one of said objects when placed flat against said track means has its lower surface engaged by an end edge portion of the topmost of any objects stacked in said cavity and forms an acute angle with the upper surface of said topmost object.

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