초록 ▼

An open-ended holder for releasably supporting a number of uniformly shaped elongated articles. The holder will release one article as another is pushed into its place. One article can be used to directly push another from its individual holding chamber within the holder and thereby displace it. The

An open-ended holder for releasably supporting a number of uniformly shaped elongated articles. The holder will release one article as another is pushed into its place. One article can be used to directly push another from its individual holding chamber within the holder and thereby displace it. The article used as the pusher then becomes supported within the holder and the article previously held within the chamber is discharged and is free for use. Individual chambers of the holder have provisions between opposed ends for releasably supporting the articles therein. Any one of the articles, once freed, can be used to push another longitudinally from a chamber, progressively replacing it within the same chamber.

대표청구항 ▼

A magazine for storing a plurality of elongated uniformly shaped articles and for permitting selective removal of one of the articles when replaced by another article, comprising: a portable magazine housing having a plurality of separate storage compartments in which compartment is adapted to store

A magazine for storing a plurality of elongated uniformly shaped articles and for permitting selective removal of one of the articles when replaced by another article, comprising: a portable magazine housing having a plurality of separate storage compartments in which compartment is adapted to store only one article at a time therein; biasing means associated with each compartment for releasably engaging each article in its respective compartment to prevent removal of the article from the compartment by gravity; each elongated compartment having a longitudinal entrance opening and a spaced longitudinal exit opening in which spaced distance between the openings is greater than the normal length of the article to prevent the direct manual removal of the article from the compartment but to permit an unstored elongated article to be longitudinally inserted into one of the entrance openings and to be manually pushed into the compartment engaging and progressively axially forcing the article stored in the compartment longitudinally out through the exit opening as the unstored elongated article is pushed through the entrance opening into the compartment displacing and replacing the previously stored article.