EP1457435B1 - Cutter blade dispenser and use of the same - Google Patents

Abstract

The blade dispenser (1) has a spiral compression spring of basically round cross section. The wide walls of the housing (3) have outward bulging (8) extending for the entire height of the wall, forming a receiving cavity (9) for the spring and also a guide for it. The outward bulging on the cover side is partly open through a grip aperture (18).

Description

The invention relates to a blade dispenser for loading knives with a housing for receiving a blade stack, which is formed of two parallel wide side walls, two parallel narrow side walls, a bottom and a lid and in an upper side region a lateral removal opening for individually pushing out the blades a thumb of an operator and includes a compression spring which is supported on the one hand on the container bottom and the other on the underside of the bottom blade, whereby the blade stack is pressed in the direction of the housing cover, and which is designed as a helical spring with a substantially circular cross-section.

Such blade dispensers are used, inter alia, in the deburring of injection-molded rubber and plastic products, in which a frequent blade change is necessary in order to have a blade with optimum blade sharpness continuously. The blades, each consisting of a fixing part and a blade part with a sharp edge are held ready for this purpose in the blade dispenser and removed manually, which can cause considerable injury if the blades are insufficiently guided or passable, for example, and their attachment part is difficult to access. In order to be able to remove the blades more safely, there is, for example, a blade dispenser disclosed in DE 299 13 045 U1 with a storage housing for receiving a clinch genstapels. The top blade of the blade stack to be removed is hereby manually turned out laterally such that the fastening part protrudes laterally freely, while the end region of the blade part still remains in the housing. In order to support the then dangerously protruding blade, a correspondingly arranged level of support is proposed in a further development. In both cases, however, at least part of the cutting edge is exposed by unscrewing the blade. Such a device is also structurally complex and has a bulky shape because of the laterally projecting support level. In addition, to accomplish a reasonably safe removal of the blade, a user must be very skillful and prudent.

It is also proposed in DE 299 13 045 U1 to press the blade stack in memory by a pressure leaf spring from a back and forth bent spring steel strip against the container lid to thereby have a large travel for a correspondingly large blade stack available. However, there is a risk that the blades tilt in the storage housing or individual blades move out of the stack, so that the blades can not be properly guided against the housing cover, whereby a smooth and safe removal of individual blades is difficult.

In US 2592138 a blade dispenser with a helical spring is proposed as a compression spring which engages below the blade stack, but thereby the problem that one or more blades can tilt and / or move in the blade stack, remains unsolved.

US 2148989 discloses a housing for housing used razor blades with a spiral and conically wound leaf spring engaging a carrier or thrust piston, the carrier serving to guide the blade stack against the lid. As a result, however, the maximum achievable Blade stack height reduced according to the height of the carrier.

In the documents US 61 58 616 and FR 27 23 725 it is provided that the compression spring engages complex indirectly via an additional thrust piston on the blade stack, wherein the thrust piston also occupies space in the blade dispenser, which thus can not be used for the blade stack.

The object of the invention is to develop a blade dispenser of the type mentioned in such a way that while maintaining a large storage capacity of blades to the last blade trouble-free individual removal allows to provide simple structure, which is easier and safer to handle.

The object is solved by the features of claim 1.

By using a helical spring with a substantially circular cross section, a uniform force curve over the spring travel and a substantially continuous spring contact pressure is achieved on the bottom blade in the blade stack. The bulging of the wide housing walls serves as a guide for the coil spring, so that the spring force is always introduced into the same section of the bottom blade and buckling of the spring in the rest of the interior of the housing can not take place, creating a smooth, trouble-free pressing the blade stack is guaranteed against the lid. Furthermore, the space for receiving a spring is extended by the lateral bulge, whose distance from each other is otherwise determined expediently by the blade width, so that correspondingly larger coil springs can be used with a correspondingly greater spring travel and / or spring force. As a result, for example, the use of a larger blade stack is possible. The attack area for the thumb of the operator lies over the receiving space of the spring, which is partially open on the lid side to the outside. Thus, the engagement area for compressing the spring and thus for depressing the blade stack corresponding to the spring, so that the spring is compressible directly in the direction of its longitudinal axis and thus avoiding an additional lever torque, thereby avoiding possible tilting or tilting of the blade stack in the housing ,

In a development, the receiving space for the compression spring over its entire height is round. In this way, an optimal guidance of the compression spring is achieved in the receiving space, wherein in particular it is preferable that the formation of the receiving space of the cross-sectional shape of the compression spring is adjusted.

In a further development, the receiving space is off-center offset in the direction of the removal side of the lid. As a result, the introduction of force by the compression spring into the bottom blade is offset eccentrically, wherein this offset is preferably so large that the spring acts on the attachment part of the bottom blade. As a result, the attack area for the thumb is also correspondingly above the attachment part of the blade in the blade stack, so that the thumb can not come into contact with the blade part. Furthermore, it is avoided that the spring can damage the blade of the blade. More preferably, such a large eccentric offset to the removal side, that the spring below the attachment part a blade brought into a loading position described below engages, so that it is ensured even in this advanced blade position that the thumb acts only on the fastening part and can not come into contact with the blade part. It is also advantageous that the uppermost, placed in the loading position and, as will be described, with its attachment part projecting beyond the housing blade is substantially centrally and thus pressed evenly against the lid, whereby the blade is more firmly positioned in the lid.

Furthermore, a further development of the blade dispenser is proposed, in which a loading stop with an intended loading position of the blade is arranged on the lid underside of the housing cover, which prevents the blade from being pushed back by the thumb pressure into the loading position when loading the knife with the blade. As mentioned above, blades usually consist of a blade part and a fastening part for fastening the blade to a knife. Characterized in that the blade is pushed out by thumb pressure in a removal direction, it can be brought into a desired loading position for loading an externally brought up knife, wherein the fastening part extends at least partially beyond the outer lateral edge of the housing and continues by the compression spring against the housing cover is pressed. In this loading position, the blade is movable horizontally only in the removal direction, so that the blade can be gripped by the knife brought up in the opposite direction to the removal direction by the knife being slidable over the attachment part of the blade or otherwise attachable thereto. Thus, a blade is removed from the blade dispenser, without any further time-consuming manual fixation of the blade is necessary, thereby avoiding possible removal disorders and injury hazards. Nevertheless, it is possible to move a brought into the loading position blade back into the housing in the receiving position by the Blade by pressing the thumb in the attack area against the spring pressure and thus perpendicular to the removal direction from the loading stop and releasably by pushing against the removal direction in the housing is traceable.

Particularly preferred is a development in which the loading stop is designed as a recess in the housing cover. In this case, preference is given to an embodiment in which the recess forming the service envelope in the cover of the blade dispenser is adapted to the contour of the blade. This ensures that the blade, which is in the loading position, is movable only in the removal direction. In an expedient development, the recess in the housing cover is introduced from the removal side in a wedge-shaped manner into the housing cover. As a result, a brought into the loading position blade by the pressure applied by the pressure spring surface can be applied to the housing cover. Particularly preferably, the recess forming the loading stop is arranged at least partially over the receiving space of the compression spring. As a result, the compression spring engages at least partially below the recess via the blades stacked in the housing, so that even the lowest, as last to be removed blade of the blade stack is easily hineinindrückbar in the loading stop forming recess.

Expediently, the recess forming the loading stop adjoins the engagement area of the thumb in the removal direction. This ensures that the operator for easier and thus safe pushing out of the blade in the removal direction into the loading position, the blade on the fastening part can attack far in the middle of the blade without the thumb but with the blade part of the blade comes into contact, or that of Thumb can attack even in the advanced loading position of the blade only on the attachment part of the blade and thus is completely protected against the blade part.

Conveniently, the narrow side surface should have on the removal side in its upper region, the lateral removal opening for leading out to be taken for loading the knife uppermost blade.

In another embodiment, the lateral removal opening may be provided in the housing cover. This is particularly useful for those lid forms that have a lateral peripheral edge.

It is also conceivable that an additional loading stop is provided, which prevents the blade when moving into the loading position and thus into the recess is prematurely movable beyond this position.

For ergonomic adaptation to the thumb of the attack area with the attack opening for the thumb in the lid preferably formed trough-shaped. Furthermore, the engagement area may extend in the removal direction to the narrow side wall of the housing in order to have the largest possible engagement surface on the handle portion of the blade, thereby being able to push out the blade more easily.

Further, an embodiment is preferred in which the blade dispenser has a receiving stop for positioning the blades in a receiving position, whereby the blades are held in a same position within the blade dispenser. Conventional blades usually have a blade part, the width of which tapers towards the free end of the blade part. Therefore, it is proposed to arrange the receiving stop expediently on one of the two parallel, wide side walls so that the blades bear in the receiving position with a defined portion of their tapered blade part against the receiving stop. Conveniently, this section should be located in an area close to the attachment part.

This makes it possible in a simple manner, blades with different blade pitch, but the same mounting part so to position in the housing, that the transition between the blade member and fastening part of the respective blades in the same position is arranged one above the other, so that, with the same fastening part length, the thumb always engages the same fastening part section. In practice, the receiving stop may be formed as a rib which runs perpendicular to the inside of one of the wide housing walls and is formed there, wherein the rib adjacent to the removal side facing away from the receiving space.

Of course, it is conceivable that the receiving stop is positioned in the housing so that the blades can be kept in the same receiving position even with different lengths of the blade part, even with different design of the blade member.

In another embodiment, the receiving stop may be formed as an inner wall extending parallel to the narrow side walls, against which the blade tip can be guided. This can be in blades with the same length as the inner width of the housing, the narrow housing wall per se or blades, which have a lower blade pitch but the same Befestigungssteillänge, an additional, according to the shortening of the Klingenteillänge offset to the receiving space arranged inside wall. Thus, in turn, it is ensured that the fastening part is always in the same position to the attack area of the thumb even with blades with lower blade pitch in the receiving position and the thumb thus can not come into contact with the blade area. This inner wall can be integrally molded already in the manufacture of the blade dispenser or, for example, be plugged into the housing as needed.

Preference is also given to a training in which the soil as Separate bottom part is formed with laterally arranged locking lugs, which can be latched into corresponding openings in the bottom region of the side walls of the container. This makes it possible in a simple manner that the blade dispenser is closed after filling with the blade stack from the bottom. First and foremost, it is envisaged to design the blade dispenser as a disposable container, which can only be reopened after the blade dispenser has been closed to the floor by external action of violence. Of course, other embodiments of the invention are conceivable that provide a simple release of the soil and thus allow reusability of the container.

In a further embodiment, the floor has a passage opening within the receiving space of the compression spring, so that the inner area of the compression spring is accessible as far as the bottom side of the lowermost blade. This makes it possible, for example by visual inspection or by measuring the distance between the bottom and bottom of the bottom blade to close the remaining amount of blades in the blade dispenser.

Furthermore, it is claimed that a blade dispenser according to any one of the preceding embodiments can be used in a workstation, the workstation having a measuring device for detecting the residual amount of blades received in the blade dispenser and the measuring device penetrating through a passage opening in the bottom of the housing. Preferably, the passage opening is equal to the passage opening, which is arranged within the receiving space of the compression spring.

In one embodiment, the measuring device has an axially displaceable stylus, wherein the stylus engages through the through hole in the bottom of the housing in the inner region of the coil spring and rests against the bottom blade. In this case, via a corresponding translation device, the detected axial displacement of the stylus in an ad will be converted with the number of remaining blades.

In another embodiment, the measuring device particularly preferably has a retaining pin fixedly connected to the workstation, which can be guided through a passage opening in the bottom, preferably through the passage opening into the receiving space of the compression spring and bears against the lowermost blade of the blade stack. By this retaining pin, the blade dispenser is kept at a certain height, which corresponds to the filling level of the blade stack arranged in the blade dispenser, so that based on the height at which the blade dispenser is located in the workstation, the residual quantity of blades in the blade dispenser can be immediately deduced ,

Fig. 1

eine Seitenansicht eines Klingenspenders,

Fig. 2

eine Vorderansicht des Klingenspenders mit Blick auf seine schmale Seitenfläche als Entnahmeseite,

Fig. 3

eine Aufsicht des Klingenspenders,

Fig. 4

eine Seitenansicht des Klingenspenders ohne Boden,

Fig. 5

einen Ausschnitt A aus Fig. 4,

Fig. 6

eine Unteransicht des Klingenspenders ohne Boden,

Fig. 7

einen Ausschnitt D aus Fig. 6 und

Fig. 8

eine Unteransicht des Klingenspenders wie in Fig. 6, jedoch mit einer in zwei Positionen eingezeichneten Klinge.

In den Figuren 1 bis 3 ist ein Klingenspender 1 mit einem Gehäuse 2 zur Aufnahme eines hier nicht gezeigten Klingenstapels dargestellt, welches aus zwei parallelen breiten Seitenwänden 3, zwei parallelen schmalen Seitenwänden 4, einen Boden 5 und einem Deckel 6 gebildet ist. In dem Gehäusedeckel 6 ist eine seitliche Entnahmeöffnung 7 zum einzelnen Herausschieben der Klingen mittels eines Daumens einer Bedienungsperson vorgesehen. Die breiten Seitenwände 4 weisen einander gegenüberliegende seitliche Ausbauchungen 8 auf, die sich über die gesamte Wandhöhe erstrecken und einen Aufnahmeraum 9 für eine hier nicht dargestellte Schraubenfeder mit im wesentlichen rundem Querschnitt bilden, der gleichzeitig die Schraubenfeder führt. Die Schraubenfeder ist so in dem Aufnahmeraum 9 angeordnet, dass sie sich einerseits an dem Behälterboden 5 und andererseits an der Unterseite der untersten Klinge des Klingenstapels abstützt, wodurch der Klingenstapel gegen den Gehäusedeckel 6 gedrückt wird. Der Aufnahmeraum 9 ist auf der Deckelseite durch eine Angriffsöffnung 18 nach oben hin teilweise offen und bildet einen Angriffsbereich 10 für den Daumen der Bedienungsperson, damit die oberste Klinge in eine Entnahmerichtung X herausgeschoben werden kann. Der Angriffsbereich 10 selbst erstreckt sich weiter in Entnahmerichtung X bis zur Seitenwand 4 hin, so dass hierdurch genügend Angriffsfläche für den Daumen vorhanden ist.The present invention will be explained in more detail using an exemplary embodiment with an associated drawing. In the drawing show

Fig. 1

a side view of a blade dispenser,

Fig. 2

a front view of the blade dispenser overlooking its narrow side surface as a removal side,

Fig. 3

a supervision of the Klingenspenders,

Fig. 4

a side view of the blade dispenser without bottom,

Fig. 5

a section A of Fig. 4,

Fig. 6

a bottom view of the blade dispenser without bottom,

Fig. 7

a detail D of Fig. 6 and

Fig. 8

a bottom view of the blade dispenser as in Fig. 6, but with a drawn in two positions Blade.

In Figures 1 to 3, a blade dispenser 1 is shown with a housing 2 for receiving a blade stack, not shown here, which is formed of two parallel wide side walls 3, two parallel narrow side walls 4, a bottom 5 and a cover 6. In the housing cover 6, a lateral removal opening 7 is provided for individually pushing out the blades by means of a thumb of an operator. The wide side walls 4 have mutually opposite lateral bulges 8, which extend over the entire wall height and form a receiving space 9 for a coil spring, not shown here with a substantially circular cross section, which simultaneously guides the coil spring. The coil spring is arranged in the receiving space 9 so that it is supported on the one hand on the container bottom 5 and on the other hand on the underside of the bottom blade of the blade stack, whereby the blade stack is pressed against the housing cover 6. The receiving space 9 is on the cover side by an attack opening 18 upwards partially open and forms an attack area 10 for the thumb of the operator, so that the uppermost blade can be pushed out in a removal direction X. The attack area 10 itself further extends in removal direction X to the side wall 4, so that in this way sufficient attack surface for the thumb is present.

As shown in particular in Figure 3, the receiving space 9 is formed for the compression spring over its entire height around and is offset in the withdrawal direction X to the removal side of the lid 6 off-center.

At the bottom of the housing cover 6, a loading stop 11 is provided. The loading stop 11 prevents a blade pushed forward by a thumb pressure into a loading position when loading the blades with this blade counter to the removal direction X slips back into the housing 2. In order to be able to bring a brought into the loading position blade in the receiving position, the blade must be depressed only by pressure against the spring force and thus perpendicular to the removal direction of the loading stop 11.

The loading stop 11 is shown more clearly in FIGS. 4 to 6, wherein FIG. 4 or FIG. 6 shows the blade dispenser 1 without bottom in a side view or in a bottom view. FIG. 5 shows a section A from FIG. 4. The loading stop 11 has in this embodiment, a trapezoidal shape, which is adapted to a particular blade shape. Of course, the loading stop when using a different blade shape have a correspondingly different adapted form. As can be seen especially in the enlarged detail A in FIG. 5, the loading stop 11 is embodied as a recess 12 in the housing cover 6, wherein the recess 12 is introduced into the housing cover 6 in a wedge-shaped manner relative to the withdrawal direction X. Furthermore, the recess 12 is partially disposed over the receiving space 9 of the compression spring, not shown here, and adjoins in the removal direction X at the attack area 10. At this point, the attack area 10 is made semicircular so that the thumb engages the handle of the blade at a safe distance from the lateral edge of the blade. The attack area 10 is designed trough-shaped for ergonomic adaptation to the thumb to the blade surface.

Figure 8 shows the enlarged bottom view of the blade dispenser 1 without associated bottom of FIG. 6, in which case additionally a blade K, K 'are shown in different positions. Here, the dotted drawn blade K 'is in the loading position, while the blade K shown in solid lines is shown in a receiving position, wherein the blade K for positioning in the receiving position rests on a formed as a rib 17 receiving stop 13. Of the Receiving stop 13 is in this case integrally connected to the side wall 3 and extends almost over the entire height of the housing. The blade K, K 'has a blade part KT, KT' and a fastening part BT, BT ', the blade part KT, KT' here a trapezoidal shape and the fastening part BT, BT 'a rectangular shape, a fastening device in the form of two mounting holes BL , BL '.

The blade K 'goes in its loading position with its fastening part BT' on the removal side in withdrawal direction X through the removal opening 7 on the side edge of the blade dispenser 1 addition, while the blade member KT 'rests against the loading stop 11. The blade part KT 'in the withdrawal direction X just adjoins the engagement region 10 of the thumb, so that the thumb can not come into contact with the blade part KT' even in this advanced position of the blade K '. Since the blade KT 'is applied to the loading stop 11 by the spring pressure of the compression spring and therefore can not slip back into the housing 2 under the action of force against the removal direction X, the blade K' is guided by a knife, not shown here, by the user the fastening part BT 'of the blade K' can be guided, can be removed from the blade dispenser, without the blade K 'having to be further touched manually.

Conceivable, but not shown here, is another loading stop, which is intended to prevent the blade from being moved beyond the loading position during its positioning from the pickup position to the loading position in the picking direction by means of thumb pressure.

As can be clearly seen in particular from FIG. 8, in the receiving position the blade K rests against the receiving stop 13 with the end of the blade part KT facing the fastening part BT. This ensures that, with the same blade width, the fastening part BT regardless of the blade length is always in the same position to the attack area 10 of the thumb, wherein the maximum blade length ultimately ultimately depends on the dimensions of the blade member KT receiving housing part. The receiving stop here runs over the housing height from top to bottom slightly prismatic tapered to facilitate the demolding of this housing part during injection molding.

The bottom is formed in this embodiment as a separate bottom part with laterally arranged locking lugs 14 which are engaged in corresponding openings 15 in the bottom region of the wide side walls 3 of the housing 2 (FIGS. 1 and 2). Thus, this blade dispenser 1 is designed as a disposable dispenser, in which the bottom 5 is latched after filling the blade stack with the compression spring, not shown here with the side walls 3 of the housing 2.

The bottom 5 has within the receiving space 9 of the compression spring on a through hole 16, so that the inner portion of the compression spring is accessible to the bottom of the bottom blade of the blade stack, not shown here. This makes it possible to detect through the passage opening 16, the current filling level of the blade stack visually or via a suitable measuring device.

The blade dispenser 1 is designed so that it can be used in a workstation, not shown here. This workstation may in this case also have a measuring device (not shown here) for detecting the filling level or the residual quantity of the blades received in the container. The measuring device may in this case for example have a retaining pin, which is firmly connected to the workstation and on which the blade dispenser can be arranged so that the retaining pin rests against the bottom blade, so that the height position of the blade dispenser in the workstation depending on the current blade stack height in Donor is. Another measurement option opens an axially displaceable stylus, which rests, by the passage opening 16 in the bottom of the housing 2 and into the inner region of the coil spring rests on the bottom blade. In addition, other measuring devices for receiving the spring travel between the bottom 5 of the housing 2 and the bottom blade are conceivable, such as by laser or by inductive means.

Further, the workstation may be designed to accommodate a number of blade dispensers that may contain blades with different configurations and blade parts, allowing for rapid removal of a wide variety of blades from the individual blade dispensers in the workstation.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

1

blade dispenser

2

casing

3

Side wall

4

Side wall

5

ground

6

cover

7

removal opening

8th

bulge

9

accommodation space

10

attack range

11

Loading stop

12

recess

13

recording stop

14

locking lug

15

opening

16

Through opening

17

rib

18

attack opening

X

removal direction

K, K '

blade

KT, KT '

blade part

BT, BT '

fixing part

BL, BL '

mounting hole

Claims (20)

1. Cutter blade dispenser for loading cutters, with a housing (2) for accommodating a stack of cutter blades, which is made of up two parallel, broad side walls (3), two parallel, narrow side walls (4), a bottom (5) and a lid (6), and displays, in an upper side area, a lateral removal opening (7) for pushing out the cutter blades (K, K') individually by means of a thumb of an operator, as well as containing a compression spring, one end of which rests on the container bottom (5) and the other end of which on the underside of the bottommost cutter blade, as a result of which the stack of cutter blades can be pressed towards the housing lid (6), and which is designed as a coil spring with an essentially round cross-section, where the broad housing walls (3) display opposite lateral bulges (8), which extend over the full wall height and form a receiving space (9) for the coil spring, which simultaneously guides the coil spring, where the lid side of the receiving space (9) is partially open towards the top through an opening (18), which forms an application area (10) for the thumb of the operator, so that the topmost cutter blade (K, K') can be slid laterally out in a removal direction (X) towards the removal opening (7) located in a narrow, upper side area on a removal side.
2. Cutter blade dispenser according to Claim 1, characterised in that the receiving space (9) for the compression spring is of round design over its full height.
3. Cutter blade dispenser according to Claim 1 or 2, characterised in that the receiving space (9) is offset eccentrically towards the removal side of the lid (6).
4. Cutter blade dispenser according to one of Claims 1 to 3, characterised in that a loading stop (11), provided with a loading position for the cutter blade (K'), is located on the underside of the housing lid (6) to prevent the cutter blade (K'), pushed forwards into the loading position by thumb pressure, from sliding back when loading the cutters.
5. Cutter blade dispenser according to Claim 4, characterised in that the loading stop (11) is designed as a recess (12) in the housing lid (6).
6. Cutter blade dispenser according to Claim 5, characterised in that the recess (12) in the housing lid (6), forming the loading stop (11), is adapted to the contour of the cutter blade (K, K').
7. Cutter blade dispenser according to Claim 5 or 6, characterised in that the recess (12) forming the loading stop (11) is made in the housing lid (6) in tapered fashion, rising in the direction opposite the removal direction (X).
8. Cutter blade dispenser according to one of Claims 5 to 7, characterised in that the recess (12) forming the loading stop (11) is at least partially located above the receiving space (9) for the compression spring.
9. Cutter blade dispenser according to one of Claims 5 to 8, characterised in that the recess (12) forming the loading stop (11) borders on the application area (10) of the thumb in the removal direction (X).
10. Cutter blade dispenser according to one of Claims 1 to 9, characterised in that the lateral removal opening (7) is provided in the narrow side wall (4).
11. Cutter blade dispenser according to one of Claims 1 to 9, characterised in that the lateral removal opening (7) is provided in the housing lid (6).
12. Cutter blade dispenser according to one of Claims 1 to 11, characterised in that the application area (10) with the opening (18) in the housing lid (6) is designed in trough-like fashion, and in that the application area (10) extends to the narrow side wall (4) located on the removal side.
13. Cutter blade dispenser according to one of Claims 1 to 12, characterised in that it displays a receiving stop (13) for positioning the cutter blades (K) in a receiving position.
14. Cutter blade dispenser according to Claim 13, characterised in that the receiving stop (13) is designed as a rib (17) running vertically on the inner side of one of the broad housing walls (3) that borders on the side of the receiving space (9) facing away from the removal side.
15. Cutter blade dispenser according to Claim 14, characterised in that the receiving stop (13) is designed as an inner wall running parallel to the narrow side walls (4), against which the cutter blade tip can be guided.
16. Cutter blade dispenser according to one of Claims 1 to 15, characterised in that the bottom (5) is designed as a separate bottom element (5) with laterally arranged snap-in lugs (14), which can be snapped into corresponding openings (15) in the bottom area of the housing walls (3).
17. Cutter blade dispenser according to one of Claims 1 to 16, characterised in that the bottom (5) displays a through-hole (16) within the receiving space (9) for the compression spring, such that the inner area of the compression spring is accessible up to the underside of the bottommost cutter blade.
18. Use of the cutter blade dispenser according to one of Claims 1 to 17 in a workstation, characterised in that the workstation displays a measuring device for detecting the remaining quantity of cutter blades accommodated in the cutter blade dispenser (1), and in that the measuring device works through the through-hole (16) in the bottom of the housing (2).
19. Use according to Claim 18, characterised in that the measuring device displays a retaining pin permanently connected to the workstation, and in that the retaining pin reaches through the through-hole (16) in the bottom of the housing (2) into the inner area of the coil spring and contacts the bottommost cutter blade, where the retaining pin holds the cutter blade dispenser in a vertical position in the workstation corresponding to the height of the stack of cutter blades.
20. Use according to Claim 18 or 19, characterised in that the measuring device displays an axially movable feeler, and in that the feeler reaches through the through-hole (16) in the bottom of the housing (2) into the inner area of the coil spring and contacts the bottommost cutter blade.

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