Article dispenser including a reciprocating ejector

• US 3,263,860 A
• Filed: 07/07/1964
• Issued: 08/02/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Eduard Haas
• Original Assignee: Eduard Haas
• Inventors: EDUARD HAAS
• Application Number:
  US04/380,753
• Time in Patent Office: 756 Days
• US Class Current: 221/274
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 1/10 having mechanical dispensing means , e.g. with buttons or handles

Claims

1. A DISPENSER FOR SUBSTANTIALLY FLAT PACKAGES, COMPRISING:

A STAND HAVING A HOPPER AND A HOLLOW BASE, SAID HOPPER HAVING AN INCLINED REAR WALL, SAID BASE HAVING A CLOSURE FORMING A BOTTOM FOR SAID HOPPER UPON WHICH SAID PACKAGES ARE STACKED AND A SLIDE FOR SAID PACKAGES, A BRACKET ATTACHED TO SAID BASE, A FIRST SHAFT MOUNTED IN SAID BRACKET, AT LEAST TWO CURVED EJECTOR ARMS SWINGABLY MOUNTED ON SAID FIRST SHAFT, SAID REAR WALL HAVING OPENINGS ADJACENT SAID BOTTOM, A SECOND SHAFT MOUNTED IN SAID BRACKET SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO SAID FIRST SHAFT, A BELL CRANK LEVER ROTATABLY MOUNTED ON SAID SECOND SHAFT, SAID LEVER HAVING TWO ARMS, ONE OF SAID ARMS CARRYING A PUSH MEMBER AND THE OTHER OF SAID ARMS CARRYING A THIRD SHAFT, A HOOK MEMBER ON SAID OTHER OF SAID ARMS, A SPRING ATTACHED TO SAID BASE AND ENGAGING SAID HOOK MEMBER, AND LINKAGE MEMBERS CONNECTING SAID THIRD SHAFT WITH SAID EJECTOR ARMS, SAID EJECTOR ARMS BEING ARRANGED DURING THEIR SWINGING MOVEMENT WHEN SAID PUSH MEMBER IS DEPRESSED TO PROJECT THROUGH SAID OPENINGS AND PUSH FORWARD THE LOWERMOST OF SAID PACKAGES ONTO SAID SLIDE, SAID SPRING BEING ADAPTED TO RETURN SAID EJECTOR ARMS AND SAID PUSH MEMBER TO NORMAL INOPERATIVE POSITIONS UPON RELEASE OF SAID PUSH MEMBER.