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US 5,513,751 AGranted
Hook dispensing apparatus and method
AssigneeRoberts Systems, Inc.
InventorsWilliam Z. Vanhook, John A. Walton
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Abstract
A dispensing apparatus for housing a stacked supply of hooks which permits the individual withdrawal of a lowermost hook from the stack. A dispensing apparatus provides a chamber having an open top, a rear wall, two side walls, a front wall, a spaced floor providing a gap between the floor and the front wall, the front wall providing a longitudinal opening transversing the wall, the opening permitting the passage of a loop portion of each hook.
Claims6
A card of hooks, comprising:
- a rectangular card, said rectangular card having two long edges, two short edges, and two surfaces;
- a plurality of hooks, each said hook having two ends having inner surfaces, said two ends connected by an elongated portion having an inner surface;
- each said hook having a card receiving space formed between said inner surfaces of said two ends and said elongated portion, respectively;
- said plurality of hooks being retained on said card by each said long edges of said card fitting between said two ends of said hook and at least a portion of one of said card surfaces being in proximity to said elongated portion of said hook;
- and
- said card contained entirely within said card receiving space.
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A card of hooks, comprising:
- a rectangular card, said rectangular card having two long edges, two short edges, and two surfaces;
- a plurality of hooks, each said hook having two ends having inner surfaces, said two ends connected by an elongated portion having an inner surface;
- each said hook having a card receiving space formed between said inner surfaces of said two ends and said elongated portion, respectively;
- said plurality of hooks being retained on said card by each said long edges of said card fitting between said two ends of said hook and at least a portion of one of said card surfaces being in proximity to said elongated portion of said hook;
- and:
- said card of hooks can be inserted in a walled chamber of a hook dispenser;
- and
- said card can be removed from said plurality of hooks without effecting the arrangement of said plurality of hooks by pulling one of said short ends of said card, allowing said walls of said walled chamber to restrain said hooks, thereby removing said card from said card receiving space of each hook.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.