US1729918A - Cigarette dispenser - Google Patents

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Oct. 1, 1929.

L. WEIDLICH CIGARETTE DISPENSER Filed May 11. 1927 6 INVENTOR. Lo Z066 71721' 51 22271 BY 5am VJZMMM M.

' ATTORNEYS.

Patented Oct. 1, 1929 UNITED STATES LOUIS WEIDLIGI-I, or s'rRArroRi), CONNECTICUT CIGARETTE Application filed May 11,

This invention relates to improvements in cigarette dispensers whereby a number of cigarettes may be housed, and discharged singly, by a simple manipulation of the dispenser, by an attendant or person desiring to obtain one or more of the cigarettes.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple, attractive and inexpensive form of dispenser, for domestic uses, which may be filled with cigarettes from time to time, by simply removing a cover, and whereby the cigarettes may be discharged on a holder one at a time, from the lower portion of the container, as may be required. Further to locate the holder in close proximity to the outlet so that a second cigarette can not be discharged while there is one resting in the holder, and finally to provide a special shaped stationary bottom for the container whereby a rolling and feeding action of the cigarettes will be produced, to prevent the cigarettes from becoming jammed.

lVith these and other objects in View, the invention resides and consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details of construction within the scope of the claims may be resorted to without departure from the spirit, or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

Similar characters of reference denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification and upon which Fig. 1 shows aperspective view of one of my improved cigarette dispensers.

Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view of the dispenser shown in Fig. 1 in its normal position, and i Fig. 3 is a similar cross sectional view, though filled with cigarettes, and-in an operated position to discharge a cigarette.

The invention resides more specifically in a base member having side uprights intermediate of which the container proper is pivot- DISPENSER 1927. Serial no. 190,387.

ally supported, and adapted normally to maintain a closed position, but pivotally mounted to be operated in a swinging manner, to discharge a single cigarette with each manipulation of the case proper.

Referring in detail to the characters of reference markedupon the drawings, 5 represents the base member 0f the dispenser, which may be made of cast or sheet metal and is preferably of a general rectangular shape. The larger portion of the top surface of this base forms a bottom for the dispenser container and includes a rib 6'upon the back and two sideportions, against and intermediate ofwhich the bot-tom edge of the container is normally positioned. The top surface of this base is slightly irregular and includes an inclined surface 7 and a declining surface8 over which the cigarettes roll as the container is swung upon its pivot, and serves to insure the rolling and positioning of the cigarettes in the lower part of the container so as to insure the releasement of one, and but one, with each operation of the case. These cigarettes are rolled forward, and discharged one at a time, as suggested by Fig. 3, so that one is discharged into the holder 9 with each movement of the container and whereby a second cigarette cannotv be dis charged so long as one remains in the holder.

The base further serves to support the two side uprights 101O which are arranged in spaced relation to the container 11, except at the upper end where a pivotal screw or stud 18 serves to pivotally connect and support the container between said uprights and so that the bottom portion is free to be swung outward, by an attendant, to the position shown in Fig. 3, when the inner bottom edge 12 strikes the shoulder 14 of incline 7 for the i purpose of discharging a cigarette, and after which the container can be released and will drop back to its normal position, as shown in Fig. 2, by gravity.

The case or container proper may be. formed of sheet metal and as will be noted is of a rectangular shape opened at both the top and bottom end. The. top surfaces 7 and 8 ofthe base normally serve to form a closure for the lower end, while the top end is enclosed by a removable cover 15, which is removed from time to time for the filling of the containers.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1s 1. In a cigarette dispenser of the class described, a base having an upwardly extended flange across the sides and back, forminga pocket with an open top and front, standards upon opposite side portions of the base, a

bottomless container pivotally mounted in the standards and normally positioned with its lower open end enclosed by the pocket and adapted to be swung forward to discharge a cigarette, the base having an intermediate raised portion extended within the container and overhwhich the cigarettes are rolled preparatory to discharging.

2. In a cigarette dispenser of the class described, a base having an upwardly extended flange across the sides and back, forming a pocket with an open top and front, standards upon opposite side portions of the base, a container concentrically pivotally mounted in the standards in a manner to insure the normal positioning of the lower end of the container within the pocket and against the back flange thereof, the said base having a trough formed therein across the top front portion to receive a cigarette, and the base having an intermediate raised portion extending within the container over which the cigarettes are rolled preparatory to discharging.

Signed at Bridgeport in the county of Fairiield and State of Connecticut this 10th day of May, A. D. 1927.

1 LOUIS WEIDLICH.

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