Portable dish-dispensing apparatus

Claim 1

A TUBULAR DISH-DISPENSING UNIT COMPRISING AN ELONGATED TUBULAR BODY HAVING A CLOSED LOWER END WALL AND HAVING AN OPEN UPPER END, A TUBULAR DISH-SUPPORTING MEMBER MOVABLY MOUNTED WITHIN THE SAID TUBULAR BODY ADJACENT THE SAID UPPER END THEREOF AND INCLUDING A HORIZONTALLY EXTENDING TOP WALL PROVIDING A DISH-SUPPORTING PLATFORM, A SCREW MEMBER HAVING ITS UPPER END PORTION ATTACHED TO THE SAID HORIZONTALLY EXTENDING DISH-SUPPORTING PLATFORM OF THE SAID TUBULAR DISH-SUPPORTING MEMBER CENTRALLY THEREOF AND DEPENDING THEREFROM INTO THE BODY OF THE SAID TUBULAR DISH-SUPPORTING MEMBER, A PLATE ARRANGED WITHIN THE SAID TUBULAR BODY OF THE SAID DISH-SUPPORTING MEMBER BELOW THE SAID HORIZONTALLY EXTENDING DISH-SUPPORTING PLATFORM THEREOF, SAID PLATE HAVING THREADED MOUNTING MEANS CENTRALLY ARRANGED THEREIN AND THREADEDLY AND ADJUSTABLY MOUNTED ON THE SAID SCREW MEMBER FOR MOVEMENT TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE SAID HORIZONTALLY EXTENDING DISH-SUPPORTING PLATFORM, AN ELEVATING COIL SPRING ARRANGED WITHIN THE SAID TUBULAR BODY OF THE SAID DISH-DISPENSING UNIT AND HAVING AN UPPER END PORTION BEARING AGAINST THE SAID PLATE, AND A THREADED CLAMPING MEMBER THREADEDLY AND ADJUSTABLY MOUNTED ON THE SCREW MEMBER BELOW THE SAID PLATE WHEREBY THE POSITION AND HEIGHT OF THE SAID DISH-SUPPORTING PLATFORM RELATIVE TO THE OPEN UPPER END OF THE SAID TUBULAR BODY MAY BE EFFECTED BY LIFTING THE SAID TUBULAR DISH-SUPPORTING MEMBER UPWARDLY THROUGH THE SAID OPENING IN THE UPPER END OF THE SAID TUBUBODY AND ROTATING THE SAID PLATE ON THE SAID SCREW MEMBER AND CLAMPING THE SAID PLATE IN POSITION OF USE BY MANUALLY ADJUSTING THE SAID THREADED CLAMPING MEMBER ON THE SAID SCREW MEMBER AGAINST THE UNDERSURFACE OF THE SAID PLATE.