Abstract: A soda straw dispenser consisting of a fixed body having an outlet for a single straw, a container movable within said body member and also having an outlet for a single straw, an ejector member carried by the container, the ejector member normally being open to the container for receiving a single straw therein, and mechanism carried by the container and operable to close the ejector member to the container and open it to the container outlet, when the body and container outlets are in registering relation.

Abstract: A soda straw dispenser consisting of a horizontal fixed drum adapted to contain soda straws resting longitudinally therein, and having a longitudinal discharge slot in an upper portion thereof, and a rotor carried in the drum and including a straw carrier operable on a partial rotation of the rotor to select a single straw from those in the container, elevate it to the discharge slot, and eject it through the slot to a station at which it may be manually grasped for removal. Special provisions are made to prevent escape of the straw from the carrier by any avenue other than through the slot, for example back into the drum.

Abstract: A dispenser for paper napkins consisting of a housing adapted to support a stack of napkins in such a manner that a flap of the lowermost napkin depends downwardly in the housing by a gravity, and an ejector mounted movably in the housing and operable by reciprocation to engage the depending napkin flap and extend it outwardly through an opening of the housing, where it may be grasped for removal from the housing.