Apparatus for dispensing containers

Apparatus for dispensing containers from a stack, comprising a plurality of jaw assemblies evenly spaced around a common vertical axis, each jaw assembly having a catch member and a lever member pivotable about horizontal axes between a first rest position in which the catch member is pivoted upwards away from the common axis to allow a stack of containers to pass it and rest on a lower support surface of the lever member and a second dispensing position in which an upper support surface of the catch member is positioned to support the stack of containers and the lever member is pivoted downwards away from the common axis to allow the lowermost of the stack of containers to pass it, wherein the inner edges of the upper and lower support surfaces form concave segments of a circle of substantially the same radius as the containers, each said lever member having an upper pressure surface opposed to and spaced from its lower support surface so as to apply downward pressure to the top of the lowermost of the stack of containers when in the said second position, the inner edges of the upper pressure surfaces forming concave segments of a circle and wherein the upper pressure surfaces are horizontal when the lever members are in their second position.