Utility-blade dispenser

US9296548B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MARTOR KG · DE

Inventor

• Peter Schekalla · Wuppertal, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 29, 2010
• Grant date: Mar 29, 2016
• Expiry date: Sep 29, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65D2583/082
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A dispenser for utility-knife blades has a longitudinally elongated housing having a longitudinally forwardly open front end and a pair of transversely confronting inner faces each formed with a flat front portion terminating at the open front end and a flat rear portion. Each front portion is offset transversely outward from the respective rear portion and forms therewith a respective longitudinally forwardly directed shoulder. A slide in the housing is formed with a transversely throughgoing compartment adapted to hold a stack of the utility knife blades. The slide is shiftable between a rear position with the stack of blades resting by gravity on the rear portion of whichever inner face is directed upward and a front position with the stack resting on the front portion of the upwardly directed inner face and forward of the shoulder of the upwardly directed inner face. The offset is equal generally to a thickness of a single blade.