L. w'. LUELLEN.
DISPENSING APPARATUS FOR SANITARY DRINKING CUPS.
APPLICATION FILED JUNE 21,1919.
1,398 O30
Patented Nov. 22, 1921.
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UNITED STATES ,
PATENT OFFICE.
LAWRENCE W. LUELLEN, OF MOUNTAIN LAKES, NEW JERSEY.
DISPENSING APPARATUS FOR SANITARY DRINKING-CUPS.
Speci?cation of Letters Patent.
' 1,398,030.
Patented Nov. 22, 1921.
Application ?led June 21, 1919. Serial No. 305,781.
To all whom it may concern:
or protector, which cup of the stack is to be
Be it known that I, LAwRnNoE W. LUELLEN, grasped
and used.
a citizen of theUnited States, residing at
The
invention
further comprises improved
Mountain Lakes, in the county of Morris
and State of New Jersey, have invented cer
tain new and useful Im rovements in Dis
pensing Apparatus for ganitary Drinking
means for supporting a nested stack of cups,
including an inverted cone shaped member
adapted to receive the lowermost cup of a
stack, which cups are supported in an in-'
verted position and are lifted from the stack
Cups, of which the following is a speci?ca
tion,
reference being had therein to the ac in such a position individually for. use. '
10 companying drawing.
In the accompanying drawings I have
The invention relates to improvements in shown
embodiment vof the in
dispensing apparatus for sanitary drinking vention,thebutpreferred
of course it will be understood
cups.
It is the object of the invention to provide that many changes may be made without de-_
15 a dispensing apparatus for storing and ro parting from the spirit of the invention.
In the drawings:
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tecting a stack of nested cups from ust,
Figure 1 is a side elevation showing .a
dirt, and the like while they are being indi stack
of cups on the support.
vidually removed for service from the stack.
Fig.
2 shows a stack of cups as originally
With this conception in mind, the invention wrapped.
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comprehends a relatively ?exible inexpen
sive wrapper or protector adapted to sur
Fig. 3 shows a stack of cups about to be
applied to'their support.
Referring now more particularly to the
, suitable support, and having an upwardly
drawings
wherein like reference characters
opening portion through which a bottom
portion of an end cup of a stack projects to designate corresponding parts, the numeral
permit its removal. The ?exible protector is 1 illustrates a suitable means of support,
of a character to cling to the cups, and as in the illustration herein disclosed taking the
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65
75
round a stack of cups when disposed on a
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35
40
45
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they are removed one by one from the stack form of a wall or the like, having secured
for use, the protector is adjusted or moved thereto the cup supporting element 2 fas~
tened to the wall 1 by the securing device
over the nested stack of cups in keeping with 3.
The support extends outwardly at right
their removal to always leave a portion of at angles
to the wall for a slight distance and
least one cup projecting through the opening is provided
an upwardly extending
in the protector and thereby exposed, encir vertical shankwith
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upon
is mounted a
cling or protecting the other cups resting cup support 5 shown aswhich
being of a substan
upon the support to keep them in a sanitary tially
cone shaped construction. This sup
condition until used.
porting
cone may be composed of any suit
It is a further object of the invention to able material,
and of a solid or hollow struc
utilize the. original wrapper for a stack of ture being preferably
of a‘ con?guration to
cups when packed for shipment as a protect receive an‘ inverted cup
ing- means therefor when the cups are being frusto-conical formation. of substantially
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dispensed upon a suitable support. When a
In
Fig.
2
of
the
drawings
I
have
stack of cups inclosed in its original wrap a stack of nested cups 6 disposed in anshown
per is to be dispensed, the wrapper is moved inal shipping wrapper 7, the wrapper orig
con~
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95
over the end cup of the stack to permit this stituting a protecting means for the cups
100
during
their
shipment,
and
the
ends
of
this
tion and at the same time the other cups in wrapper are preferably closed by twisting
cup to be exposed, providing a grasping por
the stack are inclosed and protected by their
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the same as indicated by the reference nu
original wrapper. Manifestly the protector . meral
8. This wrapper is preferably com~
or wrapper is composed of relatively Inex
tissue or crape paper‘ of an elastic
pensive material having inherent ?exible posed ofthat
will clin to the cups, but oh 105
qualities and clings to the cups of the stack, nature
viously any suitable exible wrapper may be
being moved from the stack as the cups are employed
is found desirable. The
individually removed from time to time so wrapper is as
secured
in taut condition about
as to protect all of the cups in the stack
except the outside of the upper end cup pro
the stack of cups so thatthe offset rim or 110
?ange portions of the cups will correspond
jecting through an opening in the wrapper ingly
offset, or de?ect the Wrapper encom-
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passing said rims or ?anges to create inter
dition while they are being dispensed, it is
thrown away or discarded as its cost
?tting engagements between each cup of the ‘I usually
is
very‘
being of a non-breakable na
stack and the wrapper. ‘While the ends of ture andslight
always
protection for the
the wrapper are closed by a twisting there cups during the affording
shipping thereof as well as 70
of, it is obvious that other ways for closing
these ends canbe' resorted to so long as the in the dispensing of said cups. _‘
While
the
wrapper
or‘
protector
has
been
cups are maintained in a clean and sanitary
described
as
being.
made
of
'a‘relatively
?exi
condition andprotected from germs, dirt, or I
the like. When a stack of the cups ‘are to be ble crepe, tissue, or soft paper, it will be un 75
derstood that this is merely for the‘ purpose
disposed on the support 5, the twistedends of disclosure and that any other protector
8 of the original wrapper are opened, the
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is of a substantially ?exible character
cups being disposed'n an‘inverted position which
may
be
used without departing from the
and placed upon the cone support 5,, the
vObviously good results ‘can be.
con?guration of this cone conforming to thev invention.‘
had
with
the
use of cloth, rubber or other
shape of the interior walls of a cup. After
protector,
and
these forms of protector can
cone
sup
ort
in
this
being seated upon the
be conveniently used without departing
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80.
manner, the ?exible wrapper ? is pulled from thisinvention. It will also be under
down slightly to expose the upper portion 9
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of a cup constitutingethe end cup of‘the stood that bther’means for supporting the
stack and it will thus be seen that this orig cups than the cone shaped member 5 can be
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- inal wrapper-is now constituting a protector used with good results, but it has been
for the cups while upon a support and in a found that the present construction is highly
as it will be obvious that the cups
osition to be dispensed one at a time. efficient
are
normally
disposed in an inverted posi~
hen the wrapper has been pulled down in
tion
upon
the
support and are lifted there 90
25 this manner, theupper cup of the stack pro from bottom side up, .no means being re- _
jects through the opening in the wrapper quired to engage-the rims'of one or more of
and the material of the wrapper being of an
cups ‘to hold them in position, such as
' elastic ?exible nature clings to the cups and the
is
customary
in most of the cup dispensing
is supported thereon. ' Thiswrapper or pro
devices now in use.
30 tector will not move over the sides of the ' ‘Having thus described the
cup unless adjusted by the hand of the
user, and as the cups are removed from the I claim is:
W
invention, what
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1. ‘A package of the characterv described
stack one’ by one, the ?exible protector ‘7’ is comprising.
'a stack of nested cups having
likewise adjusted downwardlyv over the up projected edge
portions,'and a wrapper there-' 100
standin
stack
6
on
the
support
to
protect
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for
drawn
taut
about said stack throughout
and inc ose all of the cups of the stack ex
the
stack
and
preventing
free movement of
cept the end one which has a portion there- ‘
any
of
the
cups'relative
to
the wrapper when
of projecting through the end of the pro
the
end
of
the
package
is
open
to form there
tector by which it may be grasped and re
in interior indentations to individually re
moved.
After
a
stack
of
the
‘cups
are
placed
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upon a support they are removed as needed ceivethe rims of all of the cups of said
and when a number of the cups have been stack, substantially ‘as described.
2. A package of the character described
removed the protector 7 has of course been
shifted downwardly until it takes the crin comprising a stack of nested cups having
projected edge portions, and a wrapper
45 kled line position 10 shown in Fig. 1, the ad therefor comprising a thin highly ?exible
justment of the protector over the sides of
the cups always being such as to leave a por
material adapted when encompassing the
stack of cups to createpinter?tting engage
tion of the end cup of the stack exposed and‘ ment
between each cup of the stack and the
free to be grasped while at the same time
wrapper
de?ecting of the ‘material of the 115
60 encircling and ‘completely protecting the wrapper by the projected edge portions of
other clips from dirt, germs, and the like, to
the cups.
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maintain them in a sanitary condition.
3.
A
package
of
the
character described
An important characteristic of this inven comprising a stack of nested
cups having
tion resides in the inherent elastic qualities projected edge portions wrapped
by a ma 120)
55 of the protector 7, it being observed that this terial having portions to both overlie and‘
protector irrespective of its position on the underlie the individual edge portions. of all
stack the cups will always cling thereto to
the cups throughout the stack, said por
be self-supporting and must be moved by of
tions
being formed by displacing engage
the hand‘ of the user after a single cup has
60 been taken from the stack to enpose a por
ment of the wrapper with the cup edges.
4. A package of the character described
tion of the next succeeding cup. The pro
a stack of nested cups having
tector is very inexpensive, and after serving comprising
as an original wrapper in which a stack of projected edge portions closely wrapped in
cups are packed and as a protecting means a material engaged and offset by the cup
M tor maintaining the cups in a sanitary con“
edges to conform itself to the edge portions
its
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of all of the cups throughout the stack to
grip said edge portions and prevent escape cups and displacing itself to create an inter
of the cups from the Wrapper irrespective locking holding engagement between the
of the opening'of one or both ends of the inner face of the wrapper material and the
projected edge portions of all of the cups 15
package for permitting the cups to be forci of
the stack.
bl‘y drawn over the inner face of the wrap
In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my
5. A package of the character described signature inthe presence of two Witnesses.
LAWRENCE W. LUELLEN.
comprising a stack of nested cups having
Witnesses :
projected edge portions. and a Wrapper
DOROTHY T. CLARE,
therefor closely encompassing the stack of
ping material.
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HELEN WIsHUsEN.