Container dispensing apparatus
US6073785A · kind A · utility
Assignee
Inventor
Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 12, 1998 |
| Grant date | Jun 13, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 12, 2018 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB65G2205/04
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A dispenser for bottles, suspendable via a collar portion in guides on the dispenser, running toward a discharge opening, and having at the discharge opening a stop mechanism with a rocker arm which is spring-tensioned or shaft-mounted, and mounted in a housing and having a longitudinal edge portion forming a spring-loaded contact with the top portion of the container and a flat portion of the rocker arm forming an upper limiting face for the top of the collar portion where the longitudinal portion of the rocker arm has a forward area having an indentation and a rear area which forms an arresting element, and where the stop mechanism also has a front portion having a downwardly and backwardly oriented guide slot for the collar, the guide slot at the rear terminating in an undercut portion.
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