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US 4,359,173 AGranted
Tube holder-dispenser
OwnerShelley R. Williamsinventor
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A wall mounted tube holder-dispenser having a horizontal surface to accommodate a glass and toothbrushes, and side flanges extending below the horizontal surface. A forward narrowed extension of the horizontal surface is transversely slit to provide for tube compressing, and the side flanges in this narrowed portion extend above as well as below the horizontal surface. Arcuate recesses are provided in the uppermost portion of these side flanges to snugly receive a winding reel in substantial alignment with the aforementioned transverse compressing slit but spaced above it. The winding reel has knobs at each end which extend beyond the side flanges, a threading slot coextensive with the aforementioned transverse compressing slit, and a small central viewing slot continuous with the threading slot. The closed end of the tube is fed from beneath the horizontal surface through the aligned compressing slit into the threading slot, the reel is turned catching the tube end within the threading slot, and drawing the tube upwardly through the compressing slit to discharge its contents. The reel is rotated in a clockwise direction winding the flattened portion of the tube around it until it is empty. An elongated arcuate shield member is pivotally mounted on the reel, between the side flanges and the knobs, to conceal and protect the depending tube, glass and brushes, and it is swung out of the way when the dispenser is in use.
A tube holder-dispenser for suspending a tube and discharging its contents comprising a horizontal base, supporting flanges at each side extending above the surface in the forward portion of the base, arcuate recesses in the upper surface of said flanges, a transverse slit in the forward portion of the base for compressing a tube, a reel for winding said tube and pulling it through the compression slit, said reel being seated in the aforesaid arcuate recesses parallel to and spaced above the compression slit, said reel having a slot extending substantially the length of the reel for anchoring the broad end of the tube, said slot being deeply cut diametrically into the reel from one peripheral surface short of the other, and a second shorter slot midlength of the reel and continuous with the first slot extending diametrically to the opposite peripheral surface for viewing the threading of the tube, a shield for protecting and concealing the tube being depended from said reel, said shield having a bowed forward portion and side end pieces notched near their top for pivoting on the reel from a downward depending position to an above the reel out of the way position when the tube is being compressed.
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