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US 4,227,626 AGranted
Soda straw dispenser
OwnerJohn B. Merilainventor
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Abstract
A soda straw dispenser consisting of a fixed body having an outlet for a single straw, a container movable within said body member and also having an outlet for a single straw, an ejector member carried by the container, the ejector member normally being open to the container for receiving a single straw therein, and mechanism carried by the container and operable to close the ejector member to the container and open it to the container outlet, when the body and container outlets are in registering relation.
Claims10
A soda straw dispenser comprising:
- a. a body member,
- b. a bin carried by said body member for movement between first and second positions relative thereto and adapted to contain soda straws resting horizontally therein, said bin having a discharge slot through which straws may be discharged, an ejector member carried movably by said bin and obstructing said discharge slot against uncontrolled movement of straws therethrough at all positions thereof relative to said bin, said ejector comprising an open-sided container of a size to receive and contain a single straw therein, and being movably carried by said bin between a first position in which it opens inwardly into said bin to receive a straw therein, and a second position in which it opens outwardly through said slot to discharge said single straw,
- d. means biasing said bin and said ejector member yieldably to said first positions, and
- e. manually operable means for concurrently moving said bin and said ejector member from said first positions to said second positions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.