Portable gumball dispenser
CA 2228234 A1 · Owner: Imaginings 3 Int'L. Ltd. · Inventors: Diamond, Sidney
Overview
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A portable gumball dispenser has a reservoir mounted atop a pedestal formed of a nested assembly of concentric tubular members and a base. When offset apertures in top walls of the tubular members are in register with each other and with an opening in the bottom of the reservoir to permit a single gumball to drop into a dispensing chamber within the pedestal apertures in the side walls are out of register to retain the gumball. Rotation of the tubular members to register the side wallapertures rotates the top wall apertures out of register to block any further gumballs dropping from the reservoir. A directional channel in the base facilitates a gumball rolling out when the side wall …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed January 28, 1998. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended January 28, 2018.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by January 28, 2020.
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