Bandage dispenser
OwnerEric R. Royinventor
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Abstract
A bandage or other injury dressing dispenser is disclosed. The dispenser includes a plurality of differently-sized compartments, one for each injury dressing size. The dispenser includes bottom, front, rear and top surfaces and further includes a tension member in each compartment, for providing a biasing force between the compartment rear surface and a backing plate in each compartment. The injury dressings are disposed vertically between the backing plate and the front compartment surface, such that the tension member urges the injury dressings forwardly against the interior side of the front surface. The injury dressings are dispensed from a slot in the bottom surface of each compartment by the application of a downwardly directed force against the injury dressing through an arcuate opening in the front surface of each compartment.
Claims16
A dispenser for dispensing individually-packaged injury dressings, comprising:
- a plurality of adjacent compartments, each having a front surface, a rear surface and a bottom surface, wherein each compartment is sized to accept a plurality of similarly-sized injury dressings;
- wherein the front surface of each compartment includes an opening proximate the bottom surface thereof;
- wherein the bottom surface of each compartment includes a slot below the opening therein;
- wherein similarly-sized injury dressings are disposed within each compartment between the front and the rear surfaces thereof;
- a plurality of force-imparting members, wherein at least one of said plurality of force-imparting members is disposed between the rear-most injury dressing and the rear surface of each compartment, and wherein each force-imparting member exerts a force urging the injury dressings toward the front surface of the compartment, wherein the forward-most injury dressing is dispensable through the slot by the application of a downwardly-directed force against the forward-most injury dressing through the opening to dispense the forward-most injury dressing from the slot of each compartment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.