Article dispensing – Concurrent separation and distortion of flexible article – With casing or support
Patent
1996-05-21
1999-08-31
Noland, Kenneth
Article dispensing
Concurrent separation and distortion of flexible article
With casing or support
221 63, A47K 1024
Patent
active
059442190
ABSTRACT:
A pop-up coupon dispenser for small sheets which have a repositionable adhesive is provided with a flexible plastic cable tie. The dispenser includes a box filled with such sheets having an adhesive stripe along one margin and stacked in accordion fashion, the sheets being printed as manufacturer's coupons supplied to a retailer who attaches the box by the cable tie to a wire rack, to a cardboard display or other suitable support, such as a shelf, and cuts off the excess end of the cable tie. Customers can remove the coupons one-at-a-time and affix them by their adhesive backing to the product for which the coupon is redeemable. A check-out cashier can, therefore, immediately determine that the purchaser is purchasing the product for which the coupon was issued. The dispenser box may also be provided with a conventional shelf clip connected to the bottom of the dispenser box. Each coupon could comprise an unperforated sheet but could have a tear line adjacent the margin of the adhesive so that, in use, the customer can adhere the adhesively-coated portion of the coupon to the product to which the coupon applies. At the check-out counter, the cashier tears away the remainder of the label along the tear line. The torn-away portion, which is used by the retailer to redeem the coupon, will be easy for the check-out cashier and others to accumulate and handle. Also, the face of the sheet opposite the adhesively-coated portion may have advertising matter which the customer would take, because adhered to the purchased product, when leaving the retail store. In addition, a blinking LED could be housed within the dispenser box in alignment with an opening in the wall of the box to bring added attention to the dispenser box.
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Packet of (4) four photographs showing prior art dispenser.
Advertisement published by Allegro Electronics Corporation, Fremont, CA, admitted to be prior art.
Advertisement published by Ozen Sound Devices, Inc., New York, N.Y., admitted to be prior art.
See accompanying Information Disclosure Statement regarding admitted prior art coupon pads formed from self-adhestive note papers.
See accompanying Information Disclosure Statement regarding admitted prior art dispense for self-adhesive note papers.
Emoff Michael J.
Miller Mary Jayne
Dybvig Roger S.
Noland Kenneth
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