US 4,286,731 AGranted

Soap leaf sheet dispenser

AssigneeParachem Corporation

InventorSiebolt Hettinga

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Abstract

A device that is manually actuable by a user for dispensing a plurality of soap leaf sheets one at a time includes a housing with at least a back wall, a bottom wall with a central opening, and a front wall with a dispensing slot adjacent the bottom wall. Channels are located at opposite sides of the central opening, and a dispensing member rides in the channels for movement in a parallel relation to the soap leaf sheets. The dispensing member also has limited pivotal movement transversely of the channels from a rest position in which the dispensing member is spaced from the soap leaf sheets to a moved position in which the dispensing member engages the bottom one of the sheets. A bias spring is employed for normally holding the dispensing member in the rest position, but application of a dispensing force by a user upon the dispensing member concurrently pivots such member into engagement with the bottom soap leaf sheet and linearly moves such member toward the housing front wall to convey the bottom sheet through the housing dispensing slot.

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Dependent claims

A device for manually dispensing soap leaf sheets comprising:

(a) a housing having at least a back wall, a bottom wall with a central opening, a front wall with a dispensing slot adjacent said bottom wall;
(b) a plurality of soap leaf sheets arranged in a stacked relation within said housing with the lowermost sheet of said stack faced toward the bottom wall of said housing;
(c) guideway means on said bottom wall at opposite sides of said central opening;
(d) dispensing means having a body portion with an upright abutment member,
(e) guide means at opposite sides of said body portion movable in said guideway means for guidable movement of said dispensing means between a rearward rest position, wherein said abutment member is out of engagement with said lowermost sheet, and a forward sheet dispensing position, each of said guide means having a front portion and a rear portion and of a shape in transverse cross section providing for a tiltable movement of said guide means about the rear portion thereof within the transverse dimension of a guideway means, whereby said dispensing means is tiltable upwardly and forwardly in the rest position therefor for engagement of said abutment member with the lowermost one of said sheets,
(f) bias means for normally holding said dispensing means in said rest position, and
(g) manually engageable means on the body portion of said dispensing means for applying a forwardly directed force on said dispensing means to concurrently tilt said dispensing member to move said abutment member into contact engagement with said lowermost sheet and to move said dispensing member to said forward position to dispense said sheet through the slot in said housing front wall.

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