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Dispenser for plastic bags

  • US 4,191,307 A
  • Filed: 03/24/1978
  • Issued: 03/04/1980
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/24/1978
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A sheet material dispenser adapted to be mounted on an upright wall and having a mounting base section and a cover section, a hinge interconnecting said sections so that the cover section may be swung away from the base section to load sheet material thereinto, latch means for latching the two sections together when the cover section is swung closed, said cover section being supported by the base section in cantilevered relation to said upright wall to impose the weight of the loaded dispenser and pressures developed by dispensing sheet material from the dispenser on the base section, said sections comprising plastic material which is yieldable under stress, said base section having a flat base panel adapted to be fastened to the upright wall and side and end panels extending at obtuse angles from the base panel and intersecting one another to form angled corners and to constitute the base section as a truncated pyramid enclosing a hollow space and having inherently strong beam configurations to withstand the pressures exerted thereon without sufficient change of shape to release the latch means when the dispenser is mounted, loaded and is use, said side panels having edges spaced from the base panel, said hinge being disposed on the edge of one side panel and the latch means being disposed on the edge of the other side panel whereby to space the hinge and latch means from said upright wall, said latch means comprising two snap latches proximate the corners formed by the intersecting side and end panels of the base section.

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