Article dispensing – With discharge assistant – Article adhering or gripping type
Patent
1992-02-14
1993-10-12
Olszewski, Robert P.
Article dispensing
With discharge assistant
Article adhering or gripping type
221237, 221251, G07F 1124
Patent
active
052517845
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present specification, as indicated in the title, refers to a dispenser device of products such as the types employed to be sold automatically, which device consisting of a compartment placed at the bottom of the pile as a result of an electromechanical action derived from the machine.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
As present, many products, packaged or bottled, are distributed and disposed to the consumer by way of appreciably standard measures. As a characteristic example, the dispenser machines for cigarettes or drinks can be mentioned. In such machines, the products are introduced and piled up in vertical loaders consisting of a base-plate at the bottom which prevents the outfalling of the products through the lower zone.
The activating function of traditional dispensers is carried out by way of a pushing rod which displaces the product situated on the bottom towards one side supplied by a window, while the rest of the elements of the pile stay inside the loader. Another alternative solution is to make use of a lever whose revolving evolution reaches on to the lower package, removing it by the same manner towards one side. Both mechanisms occupy a considerable space, increasing for that matter, the size of the machine.
In both of the known versions, the lower product makes displacements at the bottom while it is trapped between the base of the dispenser and the weight of the pile of products. In some cases the weight of the column, and in others, the fact that many packaged products are usually wrapped in an exterior cover, a certain light sticking between the products is occasioned. As a result of that, the dispenser device has to make great effort for which, having in mind the fragility of the package, fractures or raptures in the package are produced.
As a consequence, the purpose is not only to deliver the product situated below, but also to do this in such a way that it separates itself easily from the upper one and that it goes out by its own weight without any barriers. Moreover, the purpose is also to avoid unnecessary spaces inside the machine for the fact that if the product does not have to go out towards one side or towards the front, this surface can be occupied by other elements, reducing for that matter the space occupied by the device and consequently the size of the machine.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
In other to achieve the formerly exposed requirements, the dispenser device of products, and the subject of the present invention, has been designed presenting the special particularity of expelling the product from underneath the horizontal plane that passes through the base-plate. In order to do that, the base-plate, that is used as a support to the pile of products, is enabled to make a revolving movement around the axis situated below it. In order to carry out the expulsion of one product, this device is equipped with an element to retain the rest of the pile, holding the second lower product in the pile.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES
In order for the subject of the present invention to be better understood, a practical and preferred embodiment of the same is presented in the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of the dispenser device of products.
FIG. 2 shows a side view of the device at the instant in which the expulsion of one of the products is taking place.
FIG. 3 shows a front view of one embodiment variant of the driving mechanism of the device.
FIGS. 4a and 4b show side views of some possible configurations that the base-plate can adopt, together with the element of retention according to each case to the shape of the product to be delivered.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION AND THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS THEREOF
As it can be observed from the figures, the dispenser device of products, consists of a compartment (1), situated at the base of a vertical loader that contains a variable number of piled up products inside. The compartment secured on to the machine, presents in its lower part a base-plate (2), no
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Chacon Sevila Rafael I.
Garcia Rovira Jose R.
Olszewski Robert P.
Reichard Dean A.
S. L. Assembler
Weinstein Louis
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