Article dispensing – Cellular magazine type – Conveyer type
Patent
1994-04-22
1995-04-04
Bidwell, James R.
Article dispensing
Cellular magazine type
Conveyer type
221 82, 221 95, 221107, 221115, 221120, 221121, 221131, 221265, G07F 1124
Patent
active
054029112
ABSTRACT:
A multi-station article dispensing apparatus for use in a "merchandiser" game of skill or chance has a plurality of delivery/display stations juxtaposed along an axle. Each station includes a cradle wheel rotating freely about the axle and loaded from a gravity-fed magazine. Each cradle wheel includes a plurality of drive pins parallel to the axle. The cradle wheel is rotated by a drive rod that nutates along its axis to engage a drive pin. Each drive rod has a solenoid rotatably connected to it and engages its respective drive pin whenever that solenoid is actuated. When the solenoid associated with a given drive rod is not actuated, a bias spring moves the drive rod to a position in which it does not engage a drive pin. Thus, although a single motor and drive train drives all the drive rods in unison, only a selected cradle wheel is rotated. This arrangement of a single drive train and a plurality of cradle wheels of differing sizes juxtaposed along a shaft allows the apparatus to be easily reconfigured to handle a variety of product sizes and to incorporate various numbers of dispensing stations within a single apparatus.
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Noel Industries, Inc brochure.
Bidwell James R.
Kiewit David
Reichard Dean A.
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