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US 4,045,102 AGranted
Card storage and dispensing device
OwnerWalter H. Austininventor
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A card storage and dispensing device for business cards comprises a cabinet, having a lower storage drawer with front and back triangular reinforcing pieces, provides open, center sides for finger engagement with the edges of cards. The cabinet rear wall is vertically adjustable toward and away from the cabinet front wall, providing therebetween an adjustable discharge slot for dispensing cards therethrough of varying thicknesses and one at a time. A forward portion of the top wall has a depending ledge preventing discharge of cards rearwardly therepast. A first removable bottom wall is supported by cabinet, side wall ledges, a spring one such wall resiliently urges a second removable wall, and cards thereon, upwardly and into frictional engagement with the bottom of the cabinet top wall. The bottom of such second wall carries a depending ledge engaging and removing the spring with its removal. The first and second walls and the spring are accessible through a slidingly mounted and removable upper cabinet door. A tiltable card-engaging finger is mounted for reciprocating movement on the cabinet top wall through a slot therein. This finger engages and discharges a card during its discharge motion and slides over the top card on its retractile movement. The underside advancing edge portion of the finger has a surface enhancing card engagement portion.
A card storage and dispensing device comprising a cabinet having vertically disposed side walls, a vertically disposed front wall, a vertically disposed rear wall, a horizontally disposed bottom wall means, and a horizontally disposed top wall, said walls forming a card enclosure for receiving a stack of cards to be dispensed, one at a time, the upper edge of said rear wall being spaced below and in close spaced relation to the bottom surfce of said top wall providing a discharge slot therebetween through which a single card may be dispensed, said top wall having a central, longitudinally disposed, dispenser guide slot therein;
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