Apparatus for dispensing articles
US6126036A · kind A · utility
Assignee
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 18, 1998 |
| Grant date | Oct 3, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 18, 2018 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG07F11/10
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Apparatus for dispensing articles of regular shape, such as boxes, from adjacent compartments in which articles are stored in stacks, each of the compartments having a bottom aperture. A dispensing device is mounted below for movement in-between the compartments and includes a mobile carriage supported on guiding members to translate forward-and-back below one compartment when positioned therebelow. A reversible electric motor is connected to the carriage by a timing pulley and belt drive including a timing pulley attached to a control shaft on the carriage. A pair of fingers are mounted to the rotary control shaft. The mobile carriage is translated forward-and-back by the motor by rotating the carriage-pulley in one direction which raises the fingers where they are engageable with the lowermost article in the one compartment and then translates the carriage forward to dispense it through a bottom aperture in the compartment and reversing the motor to rotate the carriage-pulley in the opposite direction which lowers the fingers to a lower level where they are free of the compartments. Rollers are mounted on the outer end of the fingers so that a penultimate article is engaged and l…
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.