Article dispensing – With discharge assistant – Multiple – simultaneously acting and circumposed
Patent
1997-09-17
1999-07-06
Noland, Kenneth
Article dispensing
With discharge assistant
Multiple, simultaneously acting and circumposed
221297, B65H 328
Patent
active
059187654
ABSTRACT:
Container dispensing system sequentially dispense containers from a nested stack. The systems have a support frame for accepting multiple stack of nested containers aligned in a cross-machine direction having upper and lower opposed pairs of gates. The gates are coupled to the support frame and extend in the cross-machine direction. Each upper and lower opposed pairs of gates defines gate openings sized so as to capture and support a lowermost and a next lowermost container in the stack respectively. A controller (e.g., a programmable controller operatively coupled to pneumatic solenoid valves or the like) controllable moves the upper and lower opposed pairs of gates between their gated and released positions such that (i) the upper and lower pairs of opposed gates are each in the gated position so as to respectively capture and support the lowermost and next lowermost containers in the stack, (ii) the lower pair of opposed gates is moved into the released position while the upper pair of opposed gates remains in the gated position so as to allow the lowermost container to drop by gravity from the stack thereof, and thereafter (iii) the lower pair of opposed gates returns to the gated position before the upper pair of opposed gates moves to the released positions to allow the stack to drop onto and be supported by the lower pair of opposed gates. The system most preferably includes a container stripping assembly for stripping the lowermost container from the stack.
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Bealer Kenneth H.
Blankenship R. Carl
Smith Charles M.
Noland Kenneth
Sweetheart Cut Company, Inc.
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