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Cotton roll dispenser

US5027974A · kind A · utility

3Cited by
10References
7Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 21, 1990
Grant dateJul 2, 1991
Priority date
Expiry dateFeb 21, 2010

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB65D83/02
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

This invention relates to an apparatus for dispensing cotton rolls. More particularly, this invention relates to an apparatus which may be supported on a work table, credenza, sideboard or the like in use in an operating room such as a dental operatory for readily supplying users such as dentists, surgeons, and assistants with absorbtive cotton rolls. The dispenser has a base which defines a delivery chute portion having horizontally spaced apart, upwardly directed surfaces, to which rolls are dispensed from a reservoir formed in part by a pair of planar lower wall portions, each lying on a plane parallel to said axis of rotation and diverging upwardly from a juncture line below the location of the axis of rotation of a dispensing wheel, and which direct rolls to the dispensing wheel which is mounted for rotation about a generally horizontal axis spaced above the delivery chute.

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