Abstract: A floss dispenser according to one embodiment has a base with a spool housing provided on one end thereof and a cutting member provided on the other end. The spool housing holds a spool of dental floss and dispenses an exposed portion of floss through an output port above the base. The cutting member has a friction element (which includes a blade for cutting the floss) positioned on an upper end thereof across from the output port. The friction element holds a distal end of the exposed portion of floss a spaced distance from the output port so that the exposed portion of floss extends above the base and through a gap region between the output port and the cutting member. The gap region is sized such that a user can grasp the exposed portion of floss without contacting any part of the floss dispenser. In this manner, the user avoids contaminating the floss dispenser.

Abstract: A freestanding space heating stove, presenting heat radiating flat faces of essentially equal surface, the faces being alike pentagonal plates of steel joined edge to edge forming a dodecahedron shaped hollow body wherein one of the plates provides a bottom and supporting legs extend downwardly and outwardly from the edges of the bottom plate to support the stove above a supporting floor. The bottom plate has five like plates diverging upward from its five edges and these five plates each have their two upper edges joined to the two lower edges of two like plates. The five upper plates converge and have their top edges joined to a top plate. One of the upper plates is provided with a door to receive fuel. Also, two of the upper plates have air inlets provided with dampers. Outlet means for gases produced is provided at the point of the top plate opposite to the edge thereof which joins the door carrying upper plate.