Patent ID: 7320413

Claim:
A container for storing and individually dispensing sheets from a sheet stack and comprising; a housing forming an interior chamber there-within for storing the sheet stack and having a window allowing communication between said interior chamber and the outside of the container, a carriage disposable in a retracted state within said interior chamber, wherein said carriage is adapted to close said window and thereby substantially prevent communication between said interior chamber and the outside of the container through said window, said carriage being further disposable into an ejecting state wherein at least a portion thereof is extended through said window to the outside of the container, an actuator engageable by a user from the outside of the container and adapted for allowing the user to move said carriage from said retracted state to said ejecting state, wherein said carriage is adapted to engage a single sheet of the sheet stack in said retracted state, and to transport said single sheet from the sheet stack and through said window so that at least a portion of said single sheet is extended outside of the container as said carriage is moved toward said ejecting state, wherein said carriage comprises a spring connected to said housing and adapted to bias said carriage toward said retracted state, and wherein said carriage further comprises a frictuous member adapted to engage the single sheet during said transport thereof, and wherein said carriage comprises said actuator and said actuator extends to the outside of the container through a slot in said housing and the container further comprises a leaf movable with said carriage and adapted to prevent communication between said interior chamber and the outside of the container by substantially covering said slot.