Toly Management Limited

David James Sciberras

James Attard Kingswell

A powder dispenser includes a container for holding powder in a spherical chamber. A wiper is disposed within and rotatable about a horizontal axis of the chamber to sweep the inner wall of the chamber. A scoop is positioned on the wiper to pass through the powder to capture and transport a small quantity of the powder upwardly from the chamber to an opening for discharge to a manually accessible platform on the container. The remainder of the powder stays in the chamber. A thumbwheel is connected with the wiper and is positioned to be manually rotatable to drive the wiper about the horizontal axis when traction force is applied to the thumbwheel.

Sweep bead dispenser

A single-bead dispenser including a container for holding plural beads in a spherical chamber, a wiper disposed within and rotatable about a horizontal axis of the chamber to sweep the inner wall of the chamber and transport a single contained bead upwardly from the chamber to an opening for discharge to a manually accessible platform on the container while leaving all the other contained beads in the chamber, a geared ring mounted externally of the container and manually rotatable about a vertical axis of the chamber, and a gear secured to the wiper and engaged and driven by the geared ring for effecting sweeping rotation of the wiper when the ring is turned. The wiper may be a lune of a hollow sphere close to and concentric with the chamber inner wall and may bear a dispensing scoop shaped to capture and convey a single bead to the opening.

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Zabbar, Malta

David James Sciberras