Dispensing container

Abstract

A novel chewing gum box includes a gum storage chamber, a storage chamber cover, a funnel apparatus, a gum introducing plate, a gum carrying groove, a carrying groove baffle, a push handle, a spring baffle, guide rails, guide rail grooves, a spring groove, and a spring. The gum storage chamber is communicated with the gum carrying groove through the funnel apparatus. The gum carrying groove is connected to the push handle and is capable of reciprocating along the guide rails and the guide rail groove. When retrieving gum, the box body is tilted and shaken first to allow gum in the storage chamber to slide along the gum introducing plate into the gum carrying groove via the funnel apparatus. The push handle then is actuated to have the gum pushed out along the guide rail and the guide rail groove, so that the gum is available for retrieval.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A dispensing container, comprising:
 a housing having a first side, a second side, and a storage chamber formed therebetween, the housing further including a cover;   a holder configured to reciprocate between a stored position located within the housing and a dispensing position located external to the housing to dispense contents of the storage chamber;   a plate adjacent to a funnel apparatus, the plate extending between the first side and the second side, wherein the container is configured such that the contents pass through the funnel apparatus and into the holder; and   a baffle movable with the holder, the baffle configured to prevent the contents of the container from falling into a gap formed when the holder moves to the dispensing position;   wherein the funnel apparatus comprises a plurality of transverse or obliquely vertical or slope bodies that are arranged on each of the first and the second sides of the housing or one of the first and the second sides of the housing, the edges of the bodies forming a gradually narrowing space from the storage chamber to the holder.