Article dispensing – With discharge assistant – Having movable segregating chamber
Patent
1975-09-16
1977-03-22
Knowles, Allen N.
Article dispensing
With discharge assistant
Having movable segregating chamber
B65G 5900
Patent
active
040131939
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for dispensing individual planar, non-circular, uniform, articles, such as image projection slides, slide mounts or the like, from a stack of such articles, comprises a delivery shaft containing an aperture having a cross-section shaped to receive the stacked articles. A dispensing arrangement, located below the shaft, includes a rotary valve supported by a base member. The rotary valve and base member each contains an aperture corresponding in shape to, and coaxial with, the delivery shaft aperture. The apertures contained respectively in the delivery shaft and base member are angularly displaced relative to each other such that a stack of articles, placed in the shaft is supported by portions of the base member exposed through the shaft aperture. The rotary valve has a thicknesss less than or equal to the thickness of each of the articles, and is rotatable by means of a lever arm for orientation of the rotary valve aperture with either the delivery shaft aperture or base member aperture. As the valve is rotated, the lowest article in the stack is also rotated toward alignment with the base member aperture. When alignment is complete, the lowest article drops through the base member aperture onto a transportation medium, such as conveyor belt.
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