Shelley M Williams

US Patent:

43591736, Nov 16, 1982

Filed:

Sep 5, 1980

Appl. No.:

6/184297

Inventors:

Shelley R. Williams - Madison TN

International Classification:

B65D 3528
B65D 3556

US Classification:

222100

Abstract:

A wall mounted tube holder-dispenser having a horizontal surface to accommodate a glass and toothbrushes, and side flanges extending below the horizontal surface. A forward narrowed extension of the horizontal surface is transversely slit to provide for tube compressing, and the side flanges in this narrowed portion extend above as well as below the horizontal surface. Arcuate recesses are provided in the uppermost portion of these side flanges to snugly receive a winding reel in substantial alignment with the aforementioned transverse compressing slit but spaced above it. The winding reel has knobs at each end which extend beyond the side flanges, a threading slot coextensive with the aforementioned transverse compressing slit, and a small central viewing slot continuous with the threading slot. The closed end of the tube is fed from beneath the horizontal surface through the aligned compressing slit into the threading slot, the reel is turned catching the tube end within the threading slot, and drawing the tube upwardly through the compressing slit to discharge its contents. The reel is rotated in a clockwise direction winding the flattened portion of the tube around it until it is empty.