Horizontal lid dispenser

A disk-shaped object dispenser, comprising:

• a trough disposed in a substantially horizontal orientation for holding a plurality of the disk-shaped objects face to face;
• a guide disposed at one end of the plurality of disk-shaped objects and movably engaged to the trough to urge the objects toward a dispending end thereof, the guide urged by a biasing device;
• a dispensing blade at an end of the trough and movable in a plane transverse to a direction of the trough, the dispensing blade configured to hold the disk-shaped objects in place when in a rest position, the dispensing blade configured to separate a forwardmost one of the plurality of disk-shaped objects when moved while retaining in place a remainder of the disk-shaped objects;
• and
• a separator operatively coupled with the dispensing blade, the separator having a device to rotate fingers on lateral ends thereof, the fingers engaging a bottom of the disk-shaped object separated by the blade to urge the separated object away from the dispensing blade.