Cup dispenser for vending machines

Details Cup dispenser for vending machines Cup dispenser for vending machines

1994-07-28

1996-05-21

Noland, Kenneth

Article dispensing

With discharge assistant

Multiple, simultaneously acting and circumposed

221241, B65H 328

Patent

active

055181490

ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides an apparatus that dispenses a lowermost cup from a stack of nested cups. The cups are disposed within an opening formed through an annular housing, and a group of cam assemblies project inward from the housing to support and selectively dispense the cups. Alignment holes are formed through the housing and the cam assemblies to facilitate proper alignment of the cam assemblies relative to one another during assembly of the dispenser. The cam assemblies move inward and outward relative to the opening to accommodate cups of different under-rim diameters within a given range. In particular, the cam assemblies move in an arc and pivot relative to the housing and thereby remain satisfactorily aligned relative to the center of the opening over a wider range of under-rim cup diameters.

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