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CAPSULE DISPENSING DEVICE

  • US 20180141761A1
  • Filed: 06/17/2016
  • Published: 05/24/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A cartridge dispenser having:

  • a receptacle defining a cavity for storing cartridges;

    a cartridge outlet for dispensing a single cartridge at a time from the cartridges, the single cartridge being dispensed in a predetermined cartridge dispensing orientation;

    a cartridge transfer device for transferring cartridges from the cavity to the cartridge outlet;

    the cavity is so dimensioned that cartridges can be stored in bulk therein at random capsule orientations; and

    the transfer device comprises a delivery conveyor that is configured to displace cartridges from the bulk of cartridges towards the outlet and to deliver the cartridges to the outlet via an orientation-discrimination passage which ensures that the cartridges are delivered one at the time to the outlet and that each cartridge that is delivered to the outlet is in the predetermined cartridge orientation at the outlet, such as a passage which for each cartridge to be delivered;

    maintains the cartridge orientation of the cartridge to be delivered to the outlet, when the cartridge when close to or reaching the passage is in itself in a proper position and orientation for being delivered to the outlet in the predetermined cartridge orientation;

    oradjusts the cartridge orientation and/or position of the cartridge or rejects the cartridge to the bulk of cartridges in the cavity, when the cartridge when close to or reaching the passage is not in itself in a proper position or orientation for being delivered to the outlet in the predetermined cartridge orientation.

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