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US 5,603,429 AGranted
Motorized hand-held transportable dispenser for dispensing disc-shaped objects one at a time
AssigneeCap Toys, Inc.
InventorsPaul Mulhauser, Karl D. Kirk, III, Diego Fontayne
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Abstract
A transportable, hand-held motorized dispenser having an amusement characteristic includes a disc-shaped housing of a top shell and a bottom shell and a motor driven turntable mounted for unidirectional rotation therein. The housing defines a recess for receiving compartments defined by the turntable for transporting objects supplied to the turntable through an entry slot and for dispensing the objects through a dispensing slot in the wall of the housing, one at a time.
Claims14
A hand-held transportable motorized dispenser for repeatedly dispensing objects comprising:
- a housing including a generally circular shell means having a circular transport zone defining an annular recess positioned radially outwardly of the center of the shell means,
- a circular turntable mounted in said housing for rotation therein and defining a series of circumferentially spaced adjacent compartments, each compartment being adapted to receive and contain one object, said compartments being disposed within and embraced by said recess for transporting said objects as said turntable is rotated,
- said turntable further defining a central platform for receiving and supporting a supply of said objects,
- said shell means defining an entry slot for permitting said objects, one at a time, to transfer in a predetermined orientation from said platform into a said compartment, and
- battery operated motor means in said housing for rotating said turntable relative to said housing and said shell means, and a discharge slot defined by said housing for allowing an object in a compartment to be discharged to the exterior of said housing as said compartment rotates past said discharge slot.
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