Article dispensing – With discharge assistant – Reciprocating
Patent
1976-01-28
1977-10-18
Werner, Frank E.
Article dispensing
With discharge assistant
Reciprocating
214 85C, 214 85K, 214152, 221 11, 221119, 221221, 141174, 198803, B65G 5910
Patent
active
040542122
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method for automatically supplying cups to a filling station is disclosed herein. The apparatus consists of means for moving nested cups along a generally horizontal path that has guide means at the end thereof with pusher means engageable with the rim of a leading cup which drives the leading cup from the nested group to the filling station. Gripper means engage the rim of the next succeeding cup for holding the remaining cups while the leading cup is moved from the group of nested cups. The apparatus also incorporates mechanism for automatically releasing the leading cups at a specific location with respect to the filling station so that they drop by gravity to the filling station and also mechanism that automatically moves the gripper means to grip the next succeeding cup for holding the group while another cup is moved from the group path. The apparatus also includes mechanism for automatically feeding additional groups of nested cups to the path when there are a predetermined minimum number of cups in the path.
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Birchall D. R.
Owens--Illinois, Inc.
Werner Frank E.
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