Inventor: Oskar Uxa
Patent number: 2620061
Filing date: Oct 14, 1949
Issue date: Dec 1952
Curtis Allina, the man who put heads on Pez passed away recently aged 87. Patent numbers play an important role in the serious world of Pez collecting. Located on the bottom left side of the dispenser the patent number can be used to determine how old the dispenser is.
Pez was invented in 1927 in Vienna, Austria by Edward Haas III. Hass intended Pez to be an adult breath mint and an alternative to smoking, the first Pez dispenser from 1947 was designed to resemble a cigarette lighter. If your new year resolution is to give up smoking I’m not sure Pez works… …but Edarem says sunflower seeds do!