Patent ID: 6357624
Filing Date: 2002-03-19
Classification: A47F,G07F

Abstract:
A device for storing and dispensing a plurality of flexible plastic drink lids having a substantially circular closure wall and a downwardly extending peripheral skirt, said device comprisingan elongated body shaped to contain said plurality of lids in nested, upside down relationship forming a vertical stack, said elongated body having a longitudinal axis with a predominantly vertical orientation and a cross-section greater than the diameter of the lids to be dispensed to allow movement of such lids along the longitudinal axis of the elongated body, said elongated body including a vertical dispensing slot parallel to the longitudinal axis of the elongated body through which the lids are dispensed laterally, including a second slot generally parallel to the longitudinal axis of the elongated body, said second slot forming a vertical track for a gravity biased finger carried by the elongated body generally opposite said dispensing slot, said finger having a length about one-half the radius of the circular closure wall of the lids in the stack and adapted to contact the peripheral skirt of the uppermost lid, clamping the uppermost lid against the next-to-uppermost lid in the stack and tilting the uppermost lid at an acute angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the elongated body thereby facilitating dispensing of the said lid through the dispensing slot.