Adjustable self-leveling plate dispenser

In a self-leveling plate dispenser of the type having a vertically-extending, open-top tank for receiving stacked plates, dishes or platters to be dispensed and including mechanism resiliently constraining the stacked plates, dishes or platters therein in the upward direction from underneath for dispensing from the top of the tank, the improvement comprising, mechanism within the tank adapting it for vertically guiding any one, selectively, of an incremently increasing range of peripheral sizes of such stacked plates, dishes or platters, said vertically guiding mechanism comprising a vertically disposed guide rod member within each of four corner zones of the tank and means for independently stepwisely adjusting each of said guide rod members incremently along a range of distances extending outwardly of the central longitudinal axis of the tank, said guide rod members serving as abutment slide means for guiding peripheral edge portions of any selected one of a wide range of incremently increasing sizes and peripheral shapes of stacked plates, dishes or platters placed in the tank for dispensing.