Single bead dispenser

Claim 1

A bead dispenser for gravity feed dispensing one bead at a time from a plurality of beads, said bead dispenser comprising: a main body having a reservoir for said beads, an outlet below said reservoir, and a cavity intermediate the reservoir and outlet; a slidable plunger adapted for insertion into said main body cavity, including an aperture through said plunger alignable with the main body outlet upon slidable insertion of the plunger to a bead dispensing position; said reservoir including opposite interior surfaces angled inwardly convergent towards the cavity intermediate the reservoir and outlet, on both sides of the plunger with interior surfaces formed of different respective convergent angles; said plunger and angled feed chute extending upwardly away from said plunger aperture; a guide ramp on said main body projecting downwardly from the reservoir on a reservoir side opposite from said feed chute; said guide ramp including an angled ramp face extending upwardly away from said aperture and opposite from said feed chute with said plunger in the bead dispensing position; said angled feed chute and said opposing angled ramp face cooperating to individually feed said beads into said plunger aperture for dispensing; said plunger and guide ramp adapted to substantially restrict all but one bead of said plurality of beads from being positioned immediately above said plunger aperture with the plunger in the bead dispensing position; and said feed chute is grooved to substantially conform to the size of a single bead.