Article dispensing – With supply cartridge or container removable from enclosing... – With follower operating in cartridge or container
Patent
1995-11-16
1998-11-03
Skaggs, H. Grant
Article dispensing
With supply cartridge or container removable from enclosing...
With follower operating in cartridge or container
221227, 221232, 271160, B65H 100
Patent
active
058296310
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus dispensing articles such as tickets and cards includes a cabinet and a plurality of article dispensing assemblies inside the cabinet. Each article dispensing assembly includes a base and a frame for enclosing the articles to be dispensed in a stack. The bases are mounted on a pair of vertical support plates. A gate is disposed behind each frame for receiving articles from its associated frame and allowing only one article at a time to pass through. A toothed blade is disposed underneath each frame and a motor driven rack and pinion is coupled to the toothed blade for bringing the toothed blade into engagement with the lowermost article in the stack, moving said toothed blade so that the lowermost article is transported from the stack into the gate, bringing the toothed blade out of engagement with the article and then moving the toothed blade back to engage the next article in the stack. In one embodiment of the invention each frame is hingedly mounted on its base. In another embodiment of the invention each frame is hingedly and lockably mounted on its base and in still another embodiment of the invention, which is intended especially for use with cards which include an integrated circuit chip onto which information can be written into and read off of, each article dispensing assembly includes a read/write head assembly underneath its frame for reading information off of the chip on the card at the bottom of the stack and/or writing information onto the chip on the card at the bottom of the stack. In addition, a weight is provided which holds the stack down in the frame and which is constructed to prevent unauthorized removal of cards from the bottom of the frame when it is partially empty.
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Algonquin Industries Inc.
Skaggs H. Grant
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