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A dispenser of light-weight articles such as plates, trays, dishes, or the like which includes a storage tube for a stack of the articles to be dispensed, a resilient member disposed beneath the stack for urging the stack upwardly, a stop for holding the stack in place and fanning the topmost articl

A dispenser of light-weight articles such as plates, trays, dishes, or the like which includes a storage tube for a stack of the articles to be dispensed, a resilient member disposed beneath the stack for urging the stack upwardly, a stop for holding the stack in place and fanning the topmost articles to permit individual dispensing. The stop is fully deflectable downwardly to permit loading and deflectable only a limited amount upwardly to facilitate individual article dispensing.

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In a dispenser of individual ones of a stack of generally horizontally disposed articles, the combination of means for continuously biasing said stack of articles in a vertically upward direction toward an opening, stop means comprising a strip of flexible plastic material disposed atop said dispens

In a dispenser of individual ones of a stack of generally horizontally disposed articles, the combination of means for continuously biasing said stack of articles in a vertically upward direction toward an opening, stop means comprising a strip of flexible plastic material disposed atop said dispenser and having a surface overlying a portion of said opening and in contact with a selected first rim portion of the topmost one of said articles and normally maintaining similar selected first rim portions of said articles in close contact one with another, second rim portions of said articles opposite said selected first rim portions being urged apart by said biasing means, and means for mounting said strip of flexible material for relatively large downward deflection and relatively small upward deflection.