Hygienic dispenser for wafers

Claim 1

A hygienic dispenser for edible wafers having a predetermined thickness, the wafers being stacked and being sealed within a wrapper to create a roll; the dispenser comprising: A. a tubular container having an open end to receive the roll; B. a platform disposed in said container and axially advanceable therein, the roll being seated on the platform; C. means to advance said platform to push said roll toward the open end of the container; D. a cap provided at its top with a visor and having a thickness substantially matching said predetermined thickness, said cap being pivoted on said container and being laterally swingable relative to the open end thereof so that the cap may selectively assume a storage mode position in which it closes the open end of the container, a cocked mode position in which the open end is uncovered by the cap but the visor thereof overlies the open end to permit said platform to push the roll upwardly, thereby projecting the uppermost wrapped wafer above the open end of the container to engage the overlying visor, and an operating mode in which the cocked cap is swung back from its cocked mode position to its storage mode position, in the course of which movement the wrapper is severed by the cap and the uppermost wrapped wafer is discharged laterally from the dispenser; and E. stop means cooperating with said cap to limit movement thereof to said mode positions.