US2211284A - Slip dispenser - Google Patents

Description

H. H. MILLER SLIP DISPENSER Aug. 13, 1940.

Filed Aug. 22, 1939 m H M A C Patented Aug. 13, 1940 Application August 22,

1 Claim.

This invention relates to a device for holding slips of paper which are to be dispensed one at a time. Where slips of thin paper are stacked in a container it has always been a difiicult 1natter to remove them by hand one at a time b cause of the natural tendency of the slips to adhere one to the other.

An object of the present invention is to provide a dispenser so constructed that when light pressure is placed with a finger on the top slip of a stack, and said slip drawn by the contacting finger through an outlet provided therefor, the slip will be automatically disengaged at its edges from the next adjoining slip thereunder and will be partly folded so that it can thus be withdrawn without pulling the adjacent slip therewith.

A further object is to provide a dispenser of this type which is free from all types of co1n- .plicating mechanism and is very efficient for the purpose intended.

With the foregoing and other objects in View which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claim, it being understood that changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of parts without departing from the spirit of the invention as claimed.

In the accompanying drawing the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawing Figure l is a perspective view of the dispenser, a slip being shown partly withdrawn from a stack thereunder.

Figure 2 is an enlarged horizontal section through the dispenser, the position of a partly withdrawn slip being indicated by broken lines.

Figure 3 is a section through a portion of the structure taken on line 3-3, Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a section on line -i, Figure 1.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference, l designates a containerwhich is rectangular in cross-section and formed preferably of light sheet metal. Located within the container at a point above the lower end thereof is a bottom plate 2 and those portions of two meeting walls of the container which are located above one of the upper corners of the bottom 2 are cut away along upwardly and laterally curved lines, as shown at 3 so as to provide cam edges merging into parallel longitudinal edges 4 which terminate at the top of the container. This container may be formed with a removable clo- 1939, Serial No. 291,405

(Cl. 3l250) sure 5 for closing the top thereof. Attaching flanges 5 can be extended laterally from the lower end of the container for the purpose of attaching it fixedly to a supporting shelf or the like.

One of the curved cam edges is longer than the other, thereby extending above the shorter cam edge as shown clearly in Figure 1.

A stack of slips formed preferably of thin paper and containing any suitable printed rnat- 0 ter, if so desired, is adapted to be placed on the inclined bottom "2. so that the stack will thus be supported with the various slips S one upon the other and inclined downwardly and backwardly away from the outlet opening formed between 15 the cam edges 3 and the straight edges t.

The exposed corners of the slips forming the stack are located along a line close to and substantially parallel with that corner of the housing or container leading to the lower end of the 20 outlet opening.

As two of the walls of the container are cut away in the formation of the outlet opening, they leave relatively narrow restraining areas at the sides of the opening.

When it is desired to withdraw slips one at a time from the container, the user inserts a finger through the outlet opening and presses lightly on the uppermost slip. He then pulls forwardly and because of frictional engagement with the 30 slip, said slip is carried therewith. As the slip, like all of the others in the stack, is inclined downwardly and rearwardly, the forward pull on the uppermost slip will cause the exposed corner thereof to wedge between the opposed 35 sides of the outlet opening and these sides, whether they be the cam edges 2-3 or the straight edges i, will act to swing the engaged edges of the uppermost slip upwardly, thereby reducing the area of contact between the two uppermost slips. Consequently the uppermost slip will be pulled outwardly through the opening while the next slip thereunder will remain flat on the stack and be properly retained by the retaining wall areas at the sides of the opening.

It has been found in practice that a structure such as herein described is very efficient for use in the rapid successive withdrawal of slips from a stack because it eliminates the natural tendency of the upper slip to remain in intimate con- 50 tact with the lower slip and to pull one or more slips therewith as it is withdrawn.

What is claimed is:

A slip dispenser including a container angular in cross-section, and a downwardly and rear- 55 wardly inclined bottom within the container, two adjoining walls of the container being cut away along one corner of the container to provide an outlet opening extending upwardly from a point adjacent to one of the upper corners of the bottom, the walls of the opening being extended downwardly along downwardly converging lower portions meeting at said corner of the container, said bottom constituting means for 10 supporting a stack of paper slips in a downwardly and rearwardly inclined position and said walls of the outlet opening constituting means for curling upwardly opposed edges of a top slip when withdrawn corner-first through the opening, those portions of the walls adjacent to the opening providing slip-retaining areas for holding in position those slips beneath the uppermost slip of the stack.

HENRY HARRISON MILLER

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