13. An economical and disposable container for storing and individually dispensing sheets from a stack of the group including
oral care strips, candy strips, and medicinal strips and comprising; an injection molded polymer housing base, an injection
molded housing cover affixed to said housing base to form therewith a housing having a sanitary chamber therein for storing
the stack, said housing further comprising a window allowing communication between said sanitary chamber and the outside of
the container, a carriage disposable in a retracted state within said sanitary chamber wherein a first portion of said carriage
closes said window to thereby substantially prevent unsanitary communication between said sanitary chamber and the outside
of the container through said window, said carriage being further disposable into an ejecting state wherein at least a second
portion thereof is extended through said window to the outside of the container and said first portion does not close said
window, said carriage comprising an actuator extending to the outside of the container through a slot in said housing, said
actuator being engageable by a user from the outside of the container and adapted to move said carriage from said retracted
state to said ejecting state, and a leaf movable with said carriage and adapted to substantially prevent unsanitary communication
between said sanitary chamber and the outside of the container by substantially covering said slot, wherein said carriage
comprises a frictuous member and a spring, said spring being connected to said housing and adapted to bias said carriage toward
said retracted state, said frictuous member being adapted to engage a single sheet of the stack in said retracted state, and
to force said single sheet from said stack and through said window with said second portion of said carriage so that at least
a portion of said single sheet is extended outside of the container as said carriage is moved toward said ejecting state,
wherein said second extended portion of said carriage comprises a void exposing a grasping portion of said extended portion
of said single sheet, said void adapted to allow the fingers of the user to pinch said extended portion of said single sheet
at said grasping portion and to remove said single sheet from the container without touching said extended portion of said
carriage, and wherein said extended portion of said single sheet may hang below said second portion of said carriage during
said extended state and said single sheet is thereby adapted to be applied directly onto a person's tongue without being touched
by the user's fingers.
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