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Dispenser for soft drink lids and the like

  • US 5,131,562 A
  • Filed: 01/28/1991
  • Issued: 07/21/1992
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/28/1991
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A dispenser for use in serially dispensing lids from a stack of nested concavo-convex lids, said lids being generally flat with a raised rim with an outwardly flared lip, said stack of lids having a lowermost lid and a next-to-lowermost lid, said dispenser comprising:

  • an upright container means with an inner wall for holding the stack of lids in a substantially coaxial inverted stack adjacent an open discharge end of the container means;

    an abutment shoulder attached to the inner wall of the container means on its open discharge end for supporting the lowermost lid in the stack by its outwardly flared lip and preventing the stack of lids from escaping from the container means; and

    ,a movable slide attached to the container means and mounted for reciprocation between first and second vertically spaced positions along a path generally parallel to the axis of the stack, said slide having a prong and a handle mounted on opposite sides, said prong extending outwardly from one side of the slide and positioned to extend between the lowermost lid and next-to-lowermost lid in the stack when in the first position for separating the lowermost lid from the next-to-lowermost lid and for flexing the lowermost lid when the slide is manually moved by the handle to the second position where the prong is below the abutment shoulder whereby the lowermost lid is released from the abutment shoulder and falls through the open discharge end while the next-to-lowermost lid takes its place in the stack.

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