Article dispensing device

• US 3,348,732 A
• Filed: 09/02/1966
• Issued: 10/24/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/1966
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Walter Schwarz Heinz
• Original Assignee: Walter Schwarz Heinz
• Inventors: WALTER SCHWARZ HEINZ
• Application Number:
  US04/576,968
• Time in Patent Office: 417 Days
• US Class Current: 221/123
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 11/38 in which the magazines are horizontal

Claims

1. AN ARTICLE DISPENSING DEVICE COMPRISING IN COMBINATION:

(A) SEVERAL HORIZONTALLY MOUNTED TRAYS DISPOSED IN A SUPERIMPOSED SPACED-APART RELATIONSHIP FOR PLACING ON EACH TRAY A ROW OF ARTICLES TO BE DISPENSED ONE BY ONE;

(B) A TRANSPORT MEANS ON EACH TRAY FOR DISPLACING THE RESPECTIVE ROW OF ARTICLES THROUGH A DISTANCE SUCH THAT THE RESPECTIVE FOREMOST ARTICLE IN SAID ROW IS PUSHED OVER AN EDGE OF THE RESPECTIVE TRAY;

(C) FIRST DRIVE MEANS COMMON TO SAID TRANSPORT MEANS;

(D) COUPLING MEANS FOR COUPLING SAID FIRST DRIVE MEANS WITH THE TRANSPORT MEANS OF A SELECTED ONE OF SAID TRAYS;

(E) A MOVALBY MOUNTED COMMON RECEIVING MEANS FOR RECEIVING THE ARTICLE PUSHED OVER SAID EDGE OF ANY OF THE TRAYS;

(F) CONVEYING MEANS COUPLED WITH SAID RECEIVING MEANS FOR MOVING THE SAME INTO A RECEIVING RELATIONSHIP WITH SAID EDGE OF THE SELECTED TRAY;

(G) SECOND DRIVE MEANS FOR DRIVING SAID CONVEYING MEANS TO MOVE SAID RECEIVING MEANS UP AND DOWN RELATIVE TO SAID EDGE OF THE TRAYS;

AND (H) CONTROL MEANS FOR CONTROLLING SAID COUPLING MEANS TO COUPLE THE TRANSPORT MEANS ON A SELECTED TRAY TO THE FIRST DRIVE MEANS FOR THE PURPOSE AFORESAID AND FOR CONTROLLING THE SECOND DRIVE MEANS TO ACTIVATE SAID CONVEYING MEANS FOR MOVING THE RECEIVING MEANS INTO A RECEIVING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SELECTED TRAY.