Article dispensing – With discharge assistant – Multiple – simultaneously acting and circumposed
Patent
1981-07-06
1983-12-06
Reeves, Robert B.
Article dispensing
With discharge assistant
Multiple, simultaneously acting and circumposed
221236, 221278, B65H 328, B65H 522, B65G 5906
Patent
active
044188374
ABSTRACT:
An automatic cup dispenser for dispensing cups at high speeds and at predetermined intervals from a stack of cups wherein each cup includes a bottom wall, a side wall and a peripheral lip comprising a plurality of opposed pairs of rotors mounted for rotation about vertical axes. The rotors are supported in position such that the upper end of each rotor engages the lip of the lowermost cup in a stack. Each rotor has a helical groove in the periphery thereof for engaging the lip of the lowermost cup and guiding the cup downwardly, the helical groove of adjacent rotors extending oppositely, and adjacent rotors being driven in alternate directions. The length of each groove is such that on rotation of the rotors, the lip of the lowermost cup is engaged and moved downwardly out of the stack while the remainder of the cups in the stack are held in position by a shoulder on the rotor.
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patent: 3426941 (1969-02-01), Hovekamp
patent: 3591047 (1971-07-01), Buhle
patent: 3712483 (1973-01-01), Messervey
patent: 3840150 (1974-10-01), Kinney
patent: 4288003 (1981-09-01), Fries, Jr.
Click M. E.
Nelson J. R.
Owens--Illinois, Inc.
Reeves Robert B.
Stormer Russell D.
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