Article dispensing – Dispenser delivering to stationary article support for... – Articles released for gravity deposit in or on support
Reexamination Certificate
1998-10-23
2001-03-20
Skaggs, H. Grant (Department: 3651)
Article dispensing
Dispenser delivering to stationary article support for...
Articles released for gravity deposit in or on support
C221S203000, C221S266000, C221S287000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06202891
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
A number of prior art inventions have been developed, for storing and dispensing elongated slender rod objects such as toothpicks. Many of such devices can be found at the cashier's counter of restaurants. One of such devices is embodied and disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 2,004,805 to D'Agostino. The patentee discloses a toothpick dispenser having a receiving chute 43 which terminates in an abutment 46, the chute and abutment have a cut away 45 whereby the toothpick may easily be removed.
Usually, the dispensers for elongated slender rod objects provide for a magazine type reservoir which terminates in a bottom having sloping walls. The sloping walls ends about a cylinder parallel to the supply of rods. The cylinder will have one or more elongated traps which are elongated grooves in the cylinder adapted and constructed to accommodate a rod which falls thereinto when the trap is presented at or near the bottom of the stockpiled rods. The cylinder is rotated to a position whereby the trap is inverted over a chute and the rod falls therefrom, rolls down the chute to a discharge and manual pick up position. Exemplary of such devices can be seen from U.S. Pat. No. 1,212,357 to Jackson and U.S. Pat. No. 2,387,470 to Seegar et al.
A much more recent device of such a nature can be seen from U.S. Pat. No. 5,509,522 to Laidlow who shows a dispenser for elongated slender rod articles wherein a supply of slender rod articles are housed in a transparent cartridge which is then inverted to be positioned on a dispenser. Sloping walls direct the slender rod articles to an apex in which a rotatable cylinder is located. The cylinder has thereon oppositely disposed trap chambers for picking up a rod article, then carrying into a position for gravity discharge therefrom.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is to a dispenser for elongated slender liquid applicators. The applicators comprise a handle portion and a knob at one end. The knob has flocked bustle-like fibers thereon. The dispenser is mounted with a replaceable transparent cartridge storage container which is filled with applicators having one end open upon which a film membrane is removably secured to the leading edge of the opening. The membrane is removed when the cartridge is in a position where the opening is facing upwardly.
The dispenser is positioned upside down and the cartridge is slid into retaining place from one side. The dispenser with the now in place cartridge is rotated 180° ready for operation in its dispensing mode. The dispenser has a horizontal rotatable cylinder with two elongated applicator trapping chambers on opposite sides. The cylinder consists of a plurality of spaced apart discs on an elongated axle. At least two of the discs have radially outwardly extending camming surfaces that rotatably enter into slots spaced apart in downwardly sloping walls at the bottom apex wherein the cylinder is located. The camming surfaces prevent jamming of the applicators as they fall into place in the oppositely disposed trap chambers for dispensing. As the trap cylinder rotates 180° in either direction it carries an applicator to a position whereby it falls away from the trap cylinder into a chute. The chute terminates in an apron portion which extends somewhat horizontally at the bottom portion of the dispenser. The dispensed applicator becomes lodged against an abutment at the end of the chute from whence it may be plucked for use. When the cartridge is empty it may be removed and a new filled cartridge may be substituted therefor.
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patent: 1146447 (1915-07-01), Prommel
patent: 1610001 (1926-12-01), Foster
patent: 2294979 (1942-09-01), Goldberg
patent: 3587922 (1971-06-01), Oriti
patent: 3995768 (1976-12-01), Montalbano et al.
patent: 5509522 (1996-04-01), Laidlaw
Microbrush, Corporation
Schellin Eric P.
Skaggs H. Grant
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