Dispensing rack

Claim 1

A PLURALITY OF AMPULES AND AN AMPULE RACK, SAID AMPULES BEING GENERALLY UNIFORM IN CROSS SECTION AND HEIGHT AND EACH INCLUDING A MAIN PORTION, SAID RACK BEING RESILIENT UNDER CRYOGENIC CONDITIONS AND COMPRISING A HOLLOW ELONGATED UNITARY SHEET METAL BODY EXTENDING OVER AN ARC OF SLIGHTLY GREATER THAN 180 DEGREES IN CROSS SECTION TO NORMALLY ENGAGE SAID CONTAINERS OVER SLIGHTLY GREATER THAN ONE-HALF OF THEIR CIRCUMFERENCE AND HAVING AN OPEN SIDE DELIMITED BY OPPOSED EDGE PORTIONS OF SAID BODY, SAID EDGE PORTIONS BEING SPACED APART A DISTANCE SLIGHTLY LESS THAN THE TRANSVERSE DIMENSION OF THE MAIN PORTION OF SAID AMPULES, SAID BODY FORMED WITH A PLURALITY OF LONGITUDINALLY SPACED ACCESS OPENINGS THERETHROUGH GENERALLY OPPOSITE SAID OPEN SIDE AND DISTRIBUTED OVER SUBSTANTIALLY THE FULL LENGTH OF SAID RACK, PORTIONS OF SAID BODY EXTENDING BETWEEN SAID OPENINGS AND RESILIENTLY RESISTING SPREADING OF SAID EDGE PORTIONS FROM ONE ANOTHER TRANSVERSELY OF SAID BODY AT LEAST WITHIN A RANGE OF MOVEMENT CORRESPONDING TO ENLARGEMENT OF THE CLEARANCE BETWEEN SAID EDGE PORTIONS TO A WIDTH EQUAL TO THE TRANSVERSE DIMENSION OF SAID MAIN PORTIONS, WHEREBY AMPULES MAY BE RETAINED IN SAID RACK BY SAID EDGE PORTIONS AND MAY BE EJECTED THROUGH SAID OPEN SIDE BY PRESSURE APPLIED THROUGH SAID OPENINGS.