Material or article handling – Apparatus for moving intersupporting articles into – within,... – Unstacking apparatus
Patent
1994-04-11
1995-04-18
Huppert, Michael S.
Material or article handling
Apparatus for moving intersupporting articles into, within,...
Unstacking apparatus
186 52, 1988035, 221211, 271 12, 271 35, 271 99, B65G 5906, B65H 312
Patent
active
054073170
ABSTRACT:
A vacuum beam product dispenser and singulator to dispense and singulate "soft" products in an automated order dispensing system (AOS) includes a product cartridge and an inclined conveyor belt. The conveyor belt picks the products from the bottom of the cartridge using a vacuum control element and carries it up the conveyor until it reaches a pinch roller that holds the product ready to be dispensed to a central conveyor of the AOS. Products are picked from the product cartridge by the inclined conveyor in a position such that a product will fall off the conveyor unless held by a vacuum generated by the vacuum control element. Thus, random multiples removed from the cartridge with the picked product fall off the conveyor. The product stream from the hopper is thereby singulated.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5064341 (1991-11-01), Pippin
This reference was cited by applicants in the prosecution of patent application Ser. No. 08/002,664.
Hickey Richard C.
Hoang Son T.
Pippin James M.
ElectroCom Automation L.P.
Huppert Michael S.
Krizek Janice L.
Meier Harold E.
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