Article dispensing – With means for blocking or disabling ejector or releaser – By engagement with slot – notch or protuberance
Patent
1996-01-25
1998-10-06
Skaggs, H. Grant
Article dispensing
With means for blocking or disabling ejector or releaser
By engagement with slot, notch or protuberance
221202, 221264, 221276, B65G 5900
Patent
active
058164413
ABSTRACT:
A dispenser for dispensing tablets one at a time which includes a feature which prevents children from dispensing tablets. The dispenser has a reservoir, a chamber below the reservoir in which the tablets are arranged in a single layer and a dispensing passageway which leads to a dispensing orifice. The passageway is of such a width that a single column of tablets can be accommodated. The passageway is defined by portions of a moving slider member and can be moved from a non-dispensing position to a dispensing position, after an unlocking plunger is depressed. The plunger presses down a biased locking plate to disengage a locking projection on the slider from a locking face in the container. In the dispensing position, the lowermost tablet is dispensed whereas the remaining tablets in the column are retained in the passageway by a fixed protuberance. One side of the passageway is resilient to minimize tablet damage. The slider member is adapted to assist the passage of tablets from the reservoir to the chamber.
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Kerr Group Inc.
Skaggs H. Grant
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