Dispenser for flat sheet articles
OwnerMichael N. Tasso, Douglas K. Campbell +1inventors
InventorsMichael N. Tasso, Douglas K. Campbell, Todd J. Rooney
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Abstract
A dispenser apparatus for dispensing flat sheet articles from a stack, and having a housing, a magazine for storing the articles, a base disposed perpendicularly to the housing, the base having service portion and a delivery portion, the service portion communicating with a lower portion of the magazine, and a dispensing mechanism within the service portion of the base, in which the dispensing mechanism engages with an article at the lower portion of the magazine for advancing the article into the delivery portion of the base, and an agitator operable upon return movement of a dispensing mechanism for agitating the articles in the magazine.
Claims20
A dispenser apparatus for dispensing one or more flat sheet articles from a stack, said dispenser apparatus comprising:
- a housing having at least one magazine for storing said articles,
- a base disposed perpendicularly to said housing, said base having an service portion and a delivery portion, said operating portion communicating with a lower portion of each of said magazines, and
- at least one dispensing mechanism within said service portion of said base, corresponding to a respective said magazine, and an elongate bar included in said dispensing mechanism for engaging with one of said articles of a said magazine for slidably advancing one of said articles from said service portion to said delivery portion of said base.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.