Patent ID: 8302783

Claim:
A product dispenser for providing at least one product item, the product dispenser comprising: an exterior shell having a dispensing aperture to allow the product item to exit the product dispenser, an interior frame supporting said exterior shell, said interior frame comprising: a product magazine configured to hold the product item in a column, said product magazine having two perpendicular side walls perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of said product dispenser and two parallel side walls parallel to the longitudinal axis of said product dispenser; a reinforcing column positioned anterior to said product magazine; a dispensing mechanism supported by said interior frame, said dispensing mechanism comprising: a top plunger flexibly connected to said two perpendicular side walls; a bottom plunger flexibly connected to said two perpendicular side walls and biased downward beneath said product item column, said bottom plunger configured to move from a lower dispensing position within said product magazine to a higher dispensing position within said product magazine upon movement of said top plunger; said top plunger configured to move within said product magazine from a relaxed position with said top plunger proximate to said dispensing aperture of said exterior shell to a first dispensing position with said top plunger biased anterior to said dispensing aperture and resting upon said reinforcing column to a second dispensing position with said top plunger anterior the product item biased upward by said bottom plunger, said top plunger returning to said relaxed position thereby pushing the product item through said dispensing aperture.