Patent ID: 8608028

Claim:
A tube dispensing device ( 10 , 30 ) for squeezing out the contents of a tube ( 50 ), comprising: two pressure plates ( 12 , 13 , 31 , 32 , 60 ) formed with respective pressure sections ( 15 , 16 , 34 , 35 ) and shorter leg sections ( 17 , 18 , 73 , 74 ), and a base ( 11 , 33 , 77 ) with a base top, a base bottom and base sides connecting the base top and the base bottom, the base configured with an interior space that is open to the outside via a slot through the base top, away from which base and through which slot the pressure sections ( 15 , 16 , 34 , 35 ) extend; wherein the pressure sections ( 15 , 16 , 34 , 35 ) are spread apart against a return force in a region of the base ( 11 , 33 , 77 ) in which the leg sections ( 17 , 18 , 73 , 74 ) bear against the base bottom.