Patent ID: 8210345

Claim:
A dispensing container accommodating a plurality of stacked ear thermometer probe covers and being mounted on a supporter, the dispensing container comprising a hollow body for accommodating the plurality of stacked ear thermometer probe covers, the hollow body having one end formed with an access opening for allowing a probe of an ear thermometer to insert into an upmost probe cover in the hollow body, and having another end opposite to the access opening formed with a base, each of the ear thermometer probe covers having a close end and an open end opposite to the close end, the ear thermometer probe covers being such stacked and accommodated in the hollow body that the open ends thereof are posed to face the access opening, and each of the ear thermometer probe covers having the open end provided with at least a flange that radially extends outward from the open end, wherein the dispensing container is characterized in: the flange of each of the ear thermometer probe covers has a diameter; the hollow body has four lateral walls and is made of a flexible material and has a substantially rectangular transverse section with each of two opposite edges of the substantially rectangular transverse section having a length smaller than the diameter of the flange; the four walls of the hollow body restorably deforms to tangentially touch the flange of each of the ear thermometer probe covers so as to keep the ear thermometer probe covers securely in the hollow body; the supporter further comprising a pair of guiding portions and the pair of guiding portions being extending lengthwise from a bottom of the supporter to an open portion of the supporter and each of the guiding portions having a chamfered portion adjacent to the open portion; and the base of the hollow body further including a pair of tab portions, the pair of tab portions being bent toward the hollow body; when the dispensing container is mounted on the supporter, inner surfaces of lateral walls of the hollow body of the dispensing container contact with outer surfaces of the guiding portions of the supporter, and the pair of tab portions contact outer surfaces of the guiding portions of the supporter, and the chamfered portions of guiding portions of the supporter abut against the flange of a bottommost one of the ear thermometer probe covers; and when the dispensing container is pushed downward along a lengthwise direction of the supporter, a relative displacement between the dispensing container and the supporter takes place and makes the chamfered portions of the guiding portions push the ear thermometer probe covers in the dispensing container toward the access opening.