Dispenser assembly for disposable lids

A lid dispenser assembly comprising:

• a sleeve shaped to receive a stack of container lids;
• a push plate slideably disposed in the sleeve and biased toward a dispense end of the sleeve;
• a door connected to the sleeve and moveable between a closed position and an open position;
• a cover connected to the door that extends across a portion of an opening defined by the door, an extraction gap defined between the door and the cover;
• and
• a plurality of deflectable projections that extend from the door across the extraction gap and overlap a portion of the cover.

A method of forming a lid dispenser assembly, the method comprising:

• providing a tube shaped to receive a stack of lids;
• providing a pressure plate constructed to slideably cooperate with the tube and operable to bias the stack of lids toward a dispense end of the tube;
• providing a door that is rotatable relative to the tube between a closed position wherein the door overlies the pressure plate and an open position wherein the door is located outside an imaginary footprint defined by the stack of lids;
• providing a cover that is movable relative to the door;
• providing a plurality of flexible projections that extend across a gap defined between the door and cover and shaped to allow manual extraction of a discrete lid of the stack of lids from the tube and effectuate separation of the discrete lid from a remainder of the stack of lids.