Machine having module with carriage for advancing row of article

Details Machine having module with carriage for advancing row of article Machine having module with carriage for advancing row of article

1978-06-08

1980-04-29

Tollberg, Stanley H.

Article dispensing

Plural sources, stacks or compartments

With discharge means for each source

221198, 221227, 221155, B65G 3504

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active

042002010

ABSTRACT:
A dispensing machine in which a carriage moves articles along the horizontal floor of a module toward a releasing mechanism by which the articles are dispensed one at a time. The carriage includes a drive wheel that engages a track on the module floor, the wheel being driven by a spring mounted on and carried by the carriage. Rollers on the sides of the carriage ride in guide channels on the sides of the module to hold the wheel in firm contact with the track so that the spring is wound when the carriage is pushed back within the module and the carriage is advanced as the spring unwinds. The module is open along the top so that articles can be inserted between the carriage and the releasing mechanism.
A plurality of such modules are mounted on horizontally movable drawers that can be withdrawn from a cabinet for loading while a latch restrains each carriage at the rear of the module during loading. When the machine is used to dispense cigarettes, a window panel at the front of each module can permit tax stamps on the bottom ends of packages to be viewed. Since the spring is contained by the carriage, it does not obscure the stamps.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2672216 (1954-03-01), Gokey
patent: 2784872 (1957-03-01), Lux
patent: 3542244 (1970-11-01), Dyer et al.
patent: 4043483 (1977-08-01), Gore et al.

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