Charles C Adamo

US Patent:

40108694, Mar 8, 1977

Filed:

Jan 14, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/649066

Inventors:

Charles Adamo - Middle Village NY

Assignee:

Lawrence Peska Associates, Inc. - New York NY

International Classification:

A45C 1100

US Classification:

221 15

Abstract:

A cigarette dispenser which dispenses cigarettes one at a time through a dispensing opening. The dispenser includes a rotatable magazine having a plurality of cigarette-loaded chambers slideably and rotatably received within a housing. The housing includes an opening adapted to be aligned with one of the chambers during a predetermined time interval determined by the period of operation of a spring motor in the housing cover, which rotates the magazine to sequentially align one of the cigarette chambers with the dispensing opening. In this manner, cigarettes are rationed by the dispenser to dissuade smoking frequency.