Side-grip Method for Grasping Textile Items in a Vending Machine
AssigneePolytex Technologies Ltd.
InventorTomer Poliner
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Abstract
A side-grip method of grasping and moving textile items in a vending machine from the storage area to the dispensing chute that does not require the textile item to be packaged comprising: (a) providing a stack of folded and unwrapped textile items; (b) providing an article selection mechanism configured with a gripping element; (c) vertically displacing said gripping element until said gripping element reaches a level of a top textile item in said stack; and (d) closing said gripping element solely on said textile item. Disclosed also is a vending machine configured to implement such a method.
Claims13
A side-grip method of grasping and moving textile items in a vending machine from the storage area to the dispensing chute that does not require the textile item to be packaged, the method comprising:
- (a) providing a stack 20 of textile items;
- (b) providing an article selection mechanism 10 configured with a gripping element 12;
- (c) vertically displacing said gripping element 12 until said gripping element 12 reaches a level of a top textile item 20t in said stack 20;
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- (d) grasping said textile item 20t with said gripping element 12 proximate to an edge of said textile item 20t.
A vending machine for dispensing chute that does not require the textile item to be packaged, the vending machine comprising:
- (a) a stack 20 of textile items;
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- (b) an article selection mechanism 10 configured with a vertically displaceable gripping element 12;
- wherein said vertically displaceable gripping element 12 is configured for gripping a top item 20t in said stack 20 proximate to an edge of said textile item 20t.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.