Patent ID: 8261938

Claim:
A mitt dispensing device comprising: a body having an upper surface and first and second openings disposed in the upper surface, the first opening being sized to receive a thumb inserted therethrough, the second opening being sized to receive one or more opposed fingers inserted therethrough, a raised saddle portion spanning the first and second openings; first and second cavities disposed in the body extending inward from the corresponding first and second openings, the first and second cavities being sized to retain a plurality of stacked finger covering envelopes of a plurality of stacked mitts, the first and second cavities being at least partially defined by spaced apart first and second angled support walls extending inward from the saddle portion; and at least one flexible retaining feature extending from the upper surface of the body to releasably retain the plurality of stacked mitts within the first and second cavities, such that when fingers of a user's hand are inserted into the first and second cavities and received within the finger covering envelopes of an outermost mitt retained in the first and second cavities, the flexible retaining feature permits release of the outermost mitt when the fingers are withdrawn from the first and second cavities.