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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2002
Paul Joseph Baker, Saylorsburg, PA (US);
Jim Francis Warner, Hoboken, NJ (US);
Mars, Incorporated, McLean, VA (US);
Abstract
A dispenser for storing and dispensing small objects and a method of dispensing small objects with the dispenser. The dispenser has a housing, defining an interior volume and a dispensing aperture, providing access to the interior volume, a dispensing aperture closure, having a closed position for securing objects within the interior volume and a dispensing position for dispensing objects from within the interior volume. The dispenser also includes a fulcrum within the interior volume of the housing, positioned such that, when pressure is applied to a button portion of the closure, a flap portion of the closure contacts the fulcrum.