Article dispensing – With recorder – register – indicator – signal or exhibitor
Patent
1992-10-15
1994-01-25
Skaggs, H. Grant
Article dispensing
With recorder, register, indicator, signal or exhibitor
221 1, 221 22, 221186, 221197, 221203, 221258, 221264, 221265, 221277, 221281, 221287, G07F 1154
Patent
active
052808459
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus is described which can receive a large number of earplugs from a box and dispense one or two of them at a time to a worker, which avoids touching of the earplugs by any other person. The apparatus includes a wheel (22, FIG. 1 ) which is rotatable on a frame (12) and which has holes (24) that are each capable of holding a single earplug (26). As the wheel turns, earplugs fall into the holes. As each hole moves to a dispense location (30), the earplug in the hole can fall out of the hole along a dispense passage (16). A barrier (42) lying above the wheel, prevents an earplug from falling into a hole that lies at the dispense location, and sweeps away any second earplug which lies partially within a hole approaching the dispense location. A large number of earplugs are contained in a box (80) which is installed in an open top (82) of the dispenser. With the box installed, a handle end (132) of a release device, is pulled, to peel a strip of tape of the release device away from adjacent edges of two bottom flaps of the box, to allow the flaps to pivot down under the weight of earplugs. In an electric motor-powered dispenser, a sensor device (218, FIG. 11 ) detects the drop of each earplug along the dispense passage (210), to stop energizing the motor that turns a dispense wheel (202) after two earplugs have been dispensed. Thus, even if some holes of the wheel do not receive an earplug, two earplugs will always be dispensed.
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Freilich Arthur
Hornbaker Robert D.
Reichard Dean A.
Rosen Leon D.
Skaggs H. Grant
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