Article dispensing – With discharge assistant – Follower
Reexamination Certificate
2008-08-01
2011-11-22
Nicholson, III, Leslie A (Department: 3651)
Article dispensing
With discharge assistant
Follower
C221S092000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08061561
ABSTRACT:
A product hold down unit has a vertical column of a carousel and a vertical row of spaced-apart engageable elements on the column. The column has a compartment open at opposite top and bottom ends and adapted to receive product items in a vertical stack. The row of engageable elements extends between the top and bottom ends of the column, enabling restriction of items in the compartment to moving from top to bottom ends of the compartment but not vice versa. The unit also has an anchor resting on top of, and supported by, the stack in the column compartment as the anchor engages adjacent ones of the engageable elements on the column so as to prevent it from moving upwardly in the compartment while allowing it to move downwardly by gravity as product items are dispensed from the stack thereof at the bottom end of the column.
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Flanagan John R.
Nicholson, III Leslie A
Randall, Jr. Kelvin L
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