Adapter for a package dispensing machine
US4865222A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 9, 1988 |
| Grant date | Sep 12, 1989 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 9, 2008 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB65G59/067
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
An adapter device for a cigarette package dispensing machine for modifying the dispensing machine to dispense thinner sized packages than the dispensing machine was originally designed to dispense. Typical cigarette package dispenser machines include column support magazines for containing stacked cigarette packages of a predetermined size. The open bottom dispensing end of the magazine is spaced above a horizontal package receiving deck by a distance approximately equal to the thickness of a cigarette package of predetermined size. Cigarette packages are dispensed one at a time from the magazine onto the receiving deck. A plunger moves over the receiving deck beneath the bottom dispensing end of the magazine to push the package from the receiving deck toward a package discharge opening. The adapter includes a panel which is pivotably connected to the plunger for movement with the plunger beneath the dispensing end of the magazine as the plunger moves to prevent more than one thinner sized package from being dispensed at a time from the magazine.
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