Article dispensing – Concurrent separation and distortion of flexible article – By ejecting means
Patent
1995-12-07
1997-09-30
Skaggs, H. Grant
Article dispensing
Concurrent separation and distortion of flexible article
By ejecting means
221 40, 221271, 221274, 221259, 221282, B65H 300
Patent
active
056718659
ABSTRACT:
A coffee filter dispenser to dispense individual coffee filters of the cup type from a stack, comprising a housing having a bottom wall, side walls, a rear wall and an open front wall, dimensioned to receive a stack of cup type coffee filters therein facing upside down. A friction bar is positioned to slide on tracks secured to the side walls, first in a rearward direction in which it makes initial contact with the uppermost filter in the stack to slightly raise and loosen it and then in the foreword direction to eject the loosened filter from the stack and from the dispenser. The friction bar is normally biased to its forward position by a pair of coil springs connected to respective end regions of the bar and to respective brackets extending forwardly from the forward edges of the side walls. A wire or thin cable connects the friction bar to a manually operated vertical slide mechanism adjacent the rear wall of the housing, which draws the friction bar rearwardly to initially loosen the top filter when the slide mechanism is pushed downwardly. When downward pressure on the slide mechanism is released, the springs snap the friction bar back in the forward direction to eject the initially loosed top filter with which it is in frictional engagement. A laterally extending spacer bar carried by the track members toward the rear of the housing is provided for the cable to travel over as it pulls the friction bar rearwardly, the spacer bar keeping the cable from pressing down on the stack of filters.
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Kettelson Ernest
Skaggs H. Grant
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