Patent ID: 7140511

Claim:
A dispenser for storing and dispensing small objects, comprising: a housing including a bottom, a front wall, a rear wall and two opposing side walls, said housing defining an interior volume and an aperture providing access to the interior volume; a cover that is one continuous member, movably attached to said housing and having a closed position for securing objects within the interior volume and at least one opened position for displaying and/or dispensing the objects from the interior volume; two flanges depending from said cover, said flanges being functionally engaged respectively with said sides walls of said housing such that said cover is laterally movable with respect to said housing in both the stowed and closed positions, selectively rotatable about an axis defined in said housing, and movable into the closed and opened positions including a stowed position in which said cover is opened and said cover is substantially flush with said bottom of said housing; and a groove provided on each of said side walls of said housing and a projection provided on each of said flanges, whereby said grooves and said projections are engagable with each other so as to allow said cover and said housing to selectively slide and rotate relative to one another wherein each of said grooves has a front end and an aft end, and the axis is defined by center points of said projections when said projections are at the aft ends of said grooves, respectively; and whereby said cover may be moved into the stowed position by first sliding said cover to the rearmost position, then rotating said cover about the axis to invert said cover, and then sliding said cover forward.