Article dispensing – With discharge assistant – Lost motion actuation and/or yieldable wall
Patent
1979-05-31
1981-06-09
Bartuska, F. J.
Article dispensing
With discharge assistant
Lost motion actuation and/or yieldable wall
221252, 221264, B65H 344
Patent
active
042719780
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for simultaneously feeding a plurality of sticks to a confectionary mold. The sticks are fed from a storage hopper through spaced openings provided in a fixed bottom plate. A reciprocating plate slidable on the bottom plate within the hopper includes a plurality of openings adapted to be placed in registration with the openings in the bottom plate to dispense the sticks. Should a stick become clogged in an opening, the remaining openings can still be placed in registration to dispense sticks. This is accomplished by dividing the reciprocable, sliding plate into a plurality of sections which are spaced from each other by the dispensing openings in the plate. Side bars connect the sections so they can move as an integral unit. Each section however, has a first and second spring-connected portion. Each portion can move independently of and relative to another so that if a dispensing opening between sections is clogged, the remaining openings in the reciprocable plate and fixed plate may still be placed in registration through movement transmitted by the side bars to the remaining sections of the reciprocable plate while the portions of the section in contact with the clogged stick are contracted towards each other.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2434257 (1948-01-01), Burch
patent: 3132765 (1964-05-01), Florendo
patent: 4010765 (1977-03-01), Clay
Bartuska F. J.
Champion International Corporation
Sommer Evelyn M.
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