Cotton swab vender

Abstract

A package for marketing and vending strips of cotton swabs has one or more molded plastics material tray-like blisters with swab carrying strips stacked therein holding the swabs in spaced protected position. The blister is sealed to and covered by a cardboard backing which has a flap providing a flat bottom wall and openable to a dispensing outlet. The preferred flap has a fold line above the bottom edge of the backing providing a door portion connected to the backing along its sides by tear lines, a tab portion depending from the door portion foldable under the blister to provide a flat bottom wall for the package and a tongue portion foldable over the front bottom end of the blister with an end releasably tucked into pockets or grooves in the blister. When the tongue is released, the flap can be pulled backward to sever the tear lines and open the door portion giving access to the interior of the blister exposing the strips for dispensing the swabs. An opened package is closed by pulling the flap forwardly and tucking the tongue into the grooves. The bottom of the blister has a raised central portion supporting the stack of strips and a thumb receiving recess in this raised portion facilitates pulling the strips through the doorway to dispense the swabs. The cover or backing has a hook receiving hole in the top thereof to suspend the package for display or vending.