Dispensing Device (Patent No: 446685)

Inventor: Archibald, Asa James

Location: Nanton

Comments: see Mosquito Creek Round-up; biographical information; moved from Vancouver in 1917, 5 children; worked in a garage; later G&B; Garage; later acquired Texaco station and Ford dealership; installed generator and had own light plant system; c1960

Description:
Having regard to the foregoing disclosure, the patent of which this specification forms part confers, subject to the conditions prescribed in the Patent Act, 1935, the exclusive right, privilege and liberty of making, constructing, using and vending to others to be used, the invention as defined in claims submitted by the patentee as follows:

1. A dispensing device for cartons comprising a carton container having a back wall and side walls outwardly projecting from the longer edges thereof, carton retaining means to maintain rectangular cartons in alignment when they are stacked in the container with their shortest axis normal to the longest axis of the container, said means comprising a pair of spaced apart flanges of substantially equal length, each projecting inwardly from the outer edge of a side wall and terminating at a distance from the lowermost edges of the side
walls of the container slightly less than the height of an individual carton, and support means adapted to permit removal of the cartons, said means comprising at least two cooperating substantially horizontal flange-like members, each in connection with the lower end of a side wall and projecting inwardly, said members being spaced apart to permit removal of the lower-most carton by manual force.

2. A dispensing device for cartons as claimed in claim 1 comprising a recess in the back wall of the container, the ends of the recess each terminating on the lower-most edge of said wall and being disposed adjacent to and substantially in alignment with the inner edge of a flange-like member.

3. A dispensing device for cartons as claimed in claim 2, in which the uppermost portion of the recess is located at a distance from the lower-most edge of the back: wall of the container greater than half the height of a carton.