With Follower Patents (Class 312/61)
  • Patent number: 4045102
    Abstract: A card storage and dispensing device for business cards comprises a cabinet, having a lower storage drawer with front and back triangular reinforcing pieces, provides open, center sides for finger engagement with the edges of cards. The cabinet rear wall is vertically adjustable toward and away from the cabinet front wall, providing therebetween an adjustable discharge slot for dispensing cards therethrough of varying thicknesses and one at a time. A forward portion of the top wall has a depending ledge preventing discharge of cards rearwardly therepast. A first removable bottom wall is supported by cabinet, side wall ledges, a spring one such wall resiliently urges a second removable wall, and cards thereon, upwardly and into frictional engagement with the bottom of the cabinet top wall. The bottom of such second wall carries a depending ledge engaging and removing the spring with its removal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1977
    Inventor: Walter H. Austin
  • Patent number: 3953090
    Abstract: An open top rectangular box sheet dispensing device fitted with spring follower for housing individual and separate memorandum sheets which are stacked within the device and are confined at the top sheet and at the rear wall surface by retaining elements located at the top and rear corners of the box housing to overlap the top of the stacked sheets. The sheets are each formed with recessed portions at each side of the sheet adjacent the back edge which fits under the retaining elements of open box dispenser and the box dispenser is provided with vertical guiding elements which fit into these recesses to maintain the sides of the sheets within proper alignment, thereby adapting easy filling of the dispenser while permitting writing over the entire sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1976
    Inventor: Hans Fuchs