VERTICALLY MOUNTED DISPENSER WITH SLIDABLE COVER

• US 3,650,433 A
• Filed: 02/09/1970
• Issued: 03/21/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John C. Robertson
• Original Assignee: John C. Robertson
• Inventors: Robertson, John C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Tollberg, Stanley H.
• Application Number:
  US05/009,593
• Time in Patent Office: 771 Days
• Field of Search: 221/65,279,283,287 312/61,249 229/20
• US Class Current: 221/65
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/0823 the articles being pushed and slid through the aperture

Abstract

A dispenser for replaceable knife blades has a support member with a shelf portion providing a shelf surface extending generally horizontally and a cover member which is slidable over the shelf portion. The cover member is secured in engagement with the support member and has apertures therein for effecting movement of the uppermost blade outwardly through the side thereof. As the blades are dispensed, the cover member slidably descends relative to the shelf portion.

Claims

1. A blade dispenser comprising:

a support member having a wall portion with means for mounting said support member upon a wall or the like and a shelf portion providing a shelf surface extending generally perpendicular to said wall portion; and

a cover member dimensioned and configured for sliding movement over and about said shelf portion, said cover member being of generally U-shaped cross section and having a front wall extending over said shelf portion, side walls extending from said front wall to adjacent said support member wall portion and a top wall extending between said front wall and side walls, said top wall having an aperture therein for manual movement of the blades received in said dispenser in a direction parallel to said front wall, one of said side walls having an aperture adjacent said top wall for dispensing of blades therethrough, the adjacent surfaces of said wall portion and said side walls having cooperating means thereon slidably interengaged to retain said cover member in assembly with said support member and to permit sliding descent of said cover member relative to said shelf portion as blades are dispensed therefrom, said shelf portion and said cover member have cooperating guide means formed therein;

said guide means comprising a vertically extending rib element formed on one of the adjacent surfaces and a channel-defining surface portion formed on the other of the adjacent surfaces and receiving said rib element for guiding the movement of the cover member.

2. The blade dispenser in accordance with claim 1 wherein said interengaged cooperating means comprise laterally projecting rib elements on one of said adjacent surfaces of said side walls and said wall portion and channel defining surface portions providing a channel receiving said rib elements therein on the other of the adjacent surfaces for sliding movement therein.

3. The blade dispenser in accordance with claim 1 wherein said shelf portion is adjacent the lower end of said support member wall portion and is hollow with a first wall providing said shelf surface, a front wall extending upwardly and outwardly from said wall portion to adjacent the outer end of said first wall and side walls extending between said support member wall portion and said first wall and front wall to provide firm support for said first wall providing said shelf surface.

4. The blade dispenser in accordance with claim 1 wherein said mounting means comprises at least one aperture in said wall portion adjacent the upper end thereof adapted to seat a fastener or the like secured on a wall.

5. The blade dispenser in accordance with claim 1 wherein said interengaged cooperating means comprise laterally projecting, vertically extending ribs on the side edges of said support member wall portion and flanges on the ends of said cover member side walls providing a U-shaped channel receiving said ribs for sliding movement therein.

6. The blade dispenser in accordance with claim 5 wherein said shelf portion has a vertically extending channel formed in the outer surface thereof and wherein said cover member front wall has a vertically extending rib formed thereon and received in said channel for guiding the movement of the cover member.

7. The blade dispenser in accordance with claim 5 wherein said flanges on said cover member snap over said ribs on said support member.

8. A blade dispenser assembly comprising:

a support member having a wall portion with means for mounting said support member upon a wall or the like and a shelf portion providing a shelf surface extending generally perpendicular to said wall portion;

a multiplicity of blades supported on said shelf surface; and

a cover member dimensioned and configured for sliding movement over and about said shelf portion and blades, said cover member being of generally U-shaped cross section and having a front wall extending over said shelf portion and blades, side walls extending from said front wall to adjacent said support member wall portion and a top wall extending between said front wall and side walls, said top wall having an aperture therein for manual movement of said blades in a direction parallel to said front wall, one of said side walls having an aperture adjacent said top wall for dispensing of the uppermost of said blades therethrough upon said manual movement, the adjacent surfaces of said wall portion and said side walls having cooperating means thereon slidably interengaged to retain said cover member in assembly with said support member and to permit sliding descent of said cover member relative to said shelf portion as said blades are dispensed therefrom, said shelf portion and said cover member have cooperating guide means formed therein, said guide means comprising vertically extending rib elements formed on one of the adjacent surfaces and channel defining surface portions formed on the other of the adjacent surfaces and receiving said rib elements for guiding the movement of the cover member.

9. The blade dispenser assembly in accordance with claim 8 wherein said interengaged cooperating means comprise laterally projecting rib elements on one of said adjacent surfaces of said side walls and said wall portion and channel defining surface portions providing a channel receiving said rib elements therein on the other of the adjacent surfaces for sliding movement therein.

10. The blade dispenser assembly in accordance with claim 8 wherein said shelf portion is adjacent the lower end of said support member wall portion and is hollow with a first wall providing said shelf surface, a front wall extending upwardly and outwardly from said wall portion to adjacent the outer end of said first wall and side walls extending between said support member wall portion and said first wall and front wall to provide firm support for said first wall providing said shelf surface.

11. The blade dispenser assembly in accordance with claim 8 wherein said interengaged cooperating means comprise laterally projecting, vertically extending ribs on the side edges of said support member wall portion and flanges on the ends of said cover member side walls providing a U-shaped channel receiving said ribs for sliding movement therein.

12. The blade dispenser assembly in accordance with claim 11 wherein said cooperating guide means are provided by a vertically extending channel formed in the outer surface of said shelf portion and a vertically extending rib formed on said cover member front wall and received in said channel for guiding the movement of the cover member, and wherein said blades have a recess in the front edge receiving said rib on said cover member front wall.

13. The blade dispenser assembly in accordance with claim 11 wherein said flanges on said cover member snap over said ribs on said support member.