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"The Pocket Portable Coin Dispenser"
U. S. Patent # 5,492,504
A Consumer Product for Mass Marketing

 
 
 CLAIM 12  (broadest coverage claim)

A coin dispenser from which a user urges out coins with his or her finger or thumb, and with which he or she can carry coins in a clothing pocket, comprising:

a body,
a plurality of coin holding chambers for holding coins face to face

in stacks with the coins' faces substantially parallel to the largest orthogonal face of said body, the coins being axially movable in said chambers,

a pair of ledges opposing each other affixed on said body at one

end of each chamber for retaining the coins, each ledge protruding partway toward the center of its chamber,

an opening in each chamber for an appropriate coin to slide radially

beside said pair of ledges into and out of said chamber and said body,

a floor at the other end of each chamber,
a plate inside each chamber having a diameter slightly smaller than

the diameter of its surrounding chamber, said plate located in-between said pair of ledges and said floor,

a spring inside each chamber located in-between said floor and said

plate for urging coins against said pair of ledges,

a stub being centrally located on and fixed perpendicular to the face

of each plate which is adjacent said spring, said stub having an axial length shorter than the diameter of the affixed plate,

a sleeve fixed to said floor and being inside each spring, said sleeve

having an axial length approximately equal to the axial length of said stub, and

a hole passing through each sleeve and being centered with its

corresponding chamber, said hole having a diameter slightly larger than the diameter of said stub, said stub being engaged with and axially slidable with said hole, said stub and said hole being for the maintaining of said plate square with its surrounding chamber.

 
 
 
The Inventor:

Charles P. Wolters
578  N.  Laclede  Station  Road
St. Louis,  MO  63119-2020
 
Phone: (314) 962-7678
E-mail: cpwolters@aol.com
 
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