US Patent Class 221
ARTICLE DISPENSING



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  DF  CLASS NOTES
1  DF  PROCESSES
2  DF  WITH RECORDER, REGISTER, INDICATOR, SIGNAL OR EXHIBITOR
3  DF  .~ Audible
4  DF  .~ Dispenser part position or adjustment indicator
5  DF  .~.~ Article selection indicator
6  DF  .~ Empty source indicating means
7  DF  .~ Dispenser operated register
8  DF  .~ Dispenser operated display device
9  DF  AUTOMATIC CONTROL
10  DF  .~ Of supply to dispenser
11  DF  .~.~ By replacing depleted stack with a similar stack
12  DF  .~ Of article releasing outlet closure
13  DF  .~ Of discharge assistant operation
14  DF  .~.~ In response to depletion of supply
15  DF  WITH TIMING OR DELAY MECHANISM
16  DF  .~ Dashpot restrained discharging means
17  DF  WITH EMPTY SUPPLY SOURCE RESPONSIVE MEANS
18  DF  .~ Having motion inhibitor for discharge means
19  DF  .~.~ Latch means
20  DF  .~.~.~ On follower
21  DF  WITH DISPENSER MALFUNCTIONING RESPONSIVE MEANS
22  DF  SUBSEQUENT ARTICLE SEPARATING MEANS ACTUATED BY ARTICLE REMOVAL
23  DF  .~ Article operated discharge assistant
24  DF  SIMULATIONS
25  DF  PROGRESSIVELY DESTROYED CELLULAR MAGAZINE-TYPE SUPPLY SOURCE
26  DF  WITH ARTICLE TEARING OR DEFORMING SUPPLY RETAINING MEANS
27  DF  CAPTIVE ARTICLE TYPE
28  DF  .~ With means to remove articles from point of use
29  DF  .~ Slidable relative to supporting guide
30  DF  WITH CUTTER OR PUNCH
31  DF  .~ To form outlet opening
32  DF  .~.~ Tear strip type
33  DF  CONCURRENT SEPARATION AND DISTORTION OF FLEXIBLE ARTICLE (E.G., NAPKIN HOLDERS)
34  DF  .~ Plural sources, stacks or compartments
35  DF  .~.~ Oppositely faced dispensing outlets
36  DF  .~ By ejecting means
37  DF  .~.~ Actuated by source container section movement
38  DF  .~.~ Interleaved folds
39  DF  .~.~ Preliminary motion in direction away from outlet
40  DF  .~.~ Compound motion of ejecting means
41  DF  .~.~ Stationary guide or abutment cooperating with leading edge of article
42  DF  .~.~ Rotary
43  DF  .~.~.~ Friction roller
44  DF  .~ Adaptable to use with different size articles
45  DF  .~ With casing or support
46  DF  .~.~ With removable supply magazine
47  DF  .~ With presentation of non-coextensive or distorted fold
48  DF  .~.~ By cooperation of interleaved folds
49  DF  .~.~.~ Refill package
50  DF  .~.~.~ With starter strip
51  DF  .~.~.~ Feeding from concave side of a stack of folded or arcuate articles
52  DF  .~.~.~ With follower
53  DF  .~.~.~ With means to relieve stack pressure
54  DF  .~.~.~.~ Movable
55  DF  .~.~ By stationary guide or abutment acting on non-coextensive folds
56  DF  .~ With follower
57  DF  .~.~ With replenishment interlock
58  DF  .~.~ Spring form
59  DF  .~.~ Spring biased
60  DF  .~.~.~ Pivoted
61  DF  .~ With separate replenishment or access inlet means
62  DF  .~.~ Pivoted container component
63  DF  .~ Deformation by non-coextensive outlet opening
64  DF  WITH FLEXIBLE SUPPLY CONTAINER WALLS
65  DF  WITH COLLAPSIBLE OR TELESCOPING SUPPLY CONTAINER WALLS
66  DF  ARTICLE DELIVERY DEPENDENT UPON INSERTION OF REPLACEMENT ARTICLE
67  DF  DISPENSING FROM STAGGERED STACKS
68  DF  PLURAL DISPENSING STACKS FORMED FROM SINGLE SOURCE
69  DF  CELLULAR MAGAZINE TYPE
70  DF  .~ Rolled or folded web type magazine (e.g., flexible pin strips)
71  DF  .~.~ With means for feeding web for dispensing
72  DF  .~.~.~ Article release by magazine movement
73  DF  .~.~.~.~ By stripping off surface adhered articles
74  DF  .~.~.~ With ejector
75  DF  .~ With article movement from cell to cell
76  DF  .~ Conveyer type
77  DF  .~.~ Multiple strand conveyer
78  DF  .~.~.~ With ejector
79  DF  .~.~ With means to remove article from cells
80  DF  .~.~.~ Stationary ejector
81  DF  .~.~.~ Interrelated with means to advance cell position
82  DF  .~.~ With gravity discharge from cells
83  DF  .~.~.~ With outlet closure operator and interrelated magazine advancing or locking means
84  DF  .~.~.~ Flexible conveyer belt carried cell structure
85  DF  .~.~.~.~ Having horizontal article carrying run
86  DF  .~.~.~ With relatively movable cell or component thereof
87  DF  .~ With non-gravity means to remove articles from cells
88  DF  .~.~ Single ejecting means for all cells
89  DF  .~ Articles discharged by relative movement of cell structure components
90  DF  .~.~ Pivoted shelf or door
91  DF  .~.~ Sliding closure common to plural cells
92  DF  PLURAL SOURCES, STACKS OR COMPARTMENTS
93  DF  .~ Dispensing from plural sources by single actuation
94  DF  .~.~ With selection of number of sources
95  DF  .~.~ Single discharge means successively loading from plural sources
96  DF  .~ With fluent material dispenser
97  DF  .~ With non-dispensing compartment
98  DF  .~.~ Movable or removable relative to dispensing compartment
99  DF  .~.~.~ Sliding drawer
100  DF  .~.~.~ Hinged
101  DF  .~.~ Movable or removable common wall
102  DF  .~.~ Used article compartment
103  DF  .~ Each entirely depleted in order
104  DF  .~.~ Replacement source or stack movement relative to discharge means
105  DF  .~.~.~ Pivotal movement about a fixed axis
106  DF  .~.~.~ Rectilinear movement
107  DF  .~.~ Feeding from subsequent source or stack prevented by articles in discharge path
108  DF  .~.~.~ By article presence or absence responsive means
109  DF  .~.~.~.~ Progressive release of multiple gates for three or more sources or stacks
110  DF  .~.~ Serially activated discharge assistants
111  DF  .~.~ Articles present in dispensing stack block subsequent stack
112  DF  .~ Dispensing from sources sequentially
113  DF  .~.~ Sources rotate relative to common outlet
114  DF  .~.~ By individual interrelated segregating means
115  DF  .~.~.~ Axially spaced
116  DF  .~.~.~ Alternately
117  DF  .~.~.~.~ With oppositely faced outlets
118  DF  .~.~.~.~ From relatively stepped sources
119  DF  .~ Rotatably mounted or endless belt carried source assembly
120  DF  .~.~ Axially spaced sets of peripherally arranged sources
121  DF  .~.~ Relative to common outlet
122  DF  .~.~.~ With means assuring alignment of source and outlet
123  DF  .~ With discharge means for each source
124  DF  .~.~ Separate discharge means for each source
125  DF  .~.~.~ With lockout means
126  DF  .~.~.~ With common selector element
127  DF  .~.~.~.~ Selection by actuator manipulation (i.e., actuator is selector)
128  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ By reverse manipulation
129  DF  .~.~.~ Electrical control
130  DF  .~.~.~ Superposed dispensers
131  DF  .~.~.~ Dispensers in juxtaposed alignment
132  DF  .~.~.~ Annularly arranged dispensers
133  DF  .~ With common discharge outlet
134  DF  WITH MEANS TO SELECT INTERMEDIATE ARTICLES FROM STACKS
135  DF  WITH ARTICLE TREATMENT
136  DF  .~ With igniting means
137  DF  .~.~ Match striker
138  DF  .~.~.~ Positively actuated striker
139  DF  .~.~.~ Ignition by manual removal of match
140  DF  .~.~.~ Ignition by discharge assistant forcing match against igniter
141  DF  .~.~.~.~ Axial movement of match
142  DF  .~.~.~.~ Transverse movement of match
143  DF  .~.~ Electrical
144  DF  .~.~.~ Including vacuum or draft producing means
145  DF  .~.~.~.~ Pump or fan
146  DF  .~.~.~.~ Stack or chimney
147  DF  .~.~.~ Heater energized by dispensing operation
148  DF  .~.~ With interrelated flint lighter and dispenser operation
149  DF  .~.~.~ Movement of container part initiates operation
150 R  DF  .~ With cooling or heating
150 HC  DF  .~.~ Heating and cooling combined
150 A  DF  .~.~ Heating
151  DF  WITH MEANS FOR BLOCKING OR DISABLING EJECTOR OR RELEASER
152  DF  .~ By engagement with slot, notch or protuberance
153  DF  .~ Motor operated
154  DF  WITH LOCK, LATCH, OR SEAL FOR CONTAINER AND/OR SUPPORT
155  DF  WITH TRANSPARENT INSPECTING OR VIEWING MEANS
156  DF  WITH ORIENTING
157  DF  .~ Segregation of aligned articles according to orientation
158  DF  .~.~ With recombining of articles
159  DF  .~.~ With return to supply
160  DF  .~.~.~ Within confines of, or overlying supply container
161  DF  .~.~.~.~ By means movable relative to terminal outlet
162  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Rotary wheel or brush
163  DF  .~ Selective separation from supply
164  DF  .~.~ By movable lifting means engageable with aperture, groove, enlargement or depression in article
165  DF  .~.~.~ Head only of headed article
166  DF  .~.~.~ By individual picker finger
167  DF  .~.~ Rotatable or oscillatable means
168  DF  .~.~.~ With agitator or exit clearing means
169  DF  .~.~.~ With multiple traveling shaped outlets
170  DF  .~.~.~.~ Outlets formed by pins
171  DF  .~ By manipulation of successive individual articles
172  DF  .~.~ Gravitating articles contacting fixed abutments
173  DF  .~.~ By positive rotation of articles
174  DF  SUPPLY FEED MEANS TO DISPENSING HOPPER
175  DF  WITH STACK FORMING MEANS
176  DF  .~ From stack source
177  DF  .~ Pivoted hopper
178  DF  .~ Movable chute or part thereof
179  DF  .~.~ Within hopper
180  DF  .~.~.~ Oscillating pivoted chute section
181  DF  .~.~.~ Axially movable
182  DF  .~ Member rotatable or oscillatable about inclined axis
183  DF  .~ Agitator carried by or interrelated with discharging means
184  DF  .~.~ Rigidly connected
185  DF  AMBULANT OR BODY SUPPORTED
186  DF  SUPPLY CONTAINER MOVABLY MOUNTED FOR DISPENSING
187  DF  .~ With means for moving separated article transversely
188  DF  .~ Pivotally mounted supply container
189  DF  .~.~ Relative to stationary article trap
190  DF  .~ Vertical motion to separate articles
191  DF  DISPENSER DELIVERING TO STATIONARY ARTICLE SUPPORT FOR MANUAL REMOVAL
192  DF  .~ With article elevation to raised support
193  DF  .~ With article motion retarding baffle at inlet to support
194  DF  .~ Articles released for gravity deposit in or on support
195  DF  .~.~ By discharge assistant
196  DF  .~.~.~ Movable segregating chamber
197  DF  WITH SUPPLY CARTRIDGE OR CONTAINER REMOVABLE FROM ENCLOSING CASING
198  DF  .~ With follower operating in cartridge or container
199  DF  COMBINED OR CONVERTIBLE
200  DF  WITH MEANS TO AGITATE, VIBRATE OR JAR ARTICLES IN SUPPLY CONTAINER
201  DF  .~ Three or more agitators or discharge assistants in series
202  DF  .~ Rigidly mounted on or incorporated in discharge assistant
203  DF  .~.~ Rotary
204  DF  .~ By movement of container section
205  DF  .~.~ Pivoted wall section
206  DF  WITH QUANTITY PRESELECTION MEANS
207  DF  .~ Variation by adjustment
208  DF  WITH DISCHARGE ASSISTANT
209  DF  .~ Cooperating with movably mounted supply container
210  DF  .~ Article adhering or gripping type
211  DF  .~.~ Suction carrier
212  DF  .~.~ Magnetic
213  DF  .~.~ Impaling
214  DF  .~.~.~ With means to strip articles from impaling means
215  DF  .~.~.~.~ Cam-operated stripping means
216  DF  .~.~.~.~ Stationary abutment
217  DF  .~.~ With endless or rotary article gripper carrying means
218  DF  .~.~.~ Endless belt carrier
219  DF  .~.~.~ Having cam-operated pivoted jaw type gripper elements
220  DF  .~.~ Having spring form, resilient gripper elements
221  DF  .~ Multiple, simultaneously acting and circumposed (e.g., cup dispensers)
222  DF  .~.~ Rotary
223  DF  .~.~ Oscillating
224  DF  .~ Plural or combined with manipulating means
225  DF  .~.~ Three or more
226  DF  .~.~ Follower
227  DF  .~.~.~ With follower disabling, retracting or releasing means
228  DF  .~.~.~ With source container cover related ejector
229  DF  .~.~.~.~ Cover controlled ejector
230  DF  .~.~.~ With interrelated actuators
231  DF  .~.~.~ With rotary ejector
232  DF  .~.~.~ With reciprocating (including oscillating) ejector
233  DF  .~.~ Means removing article from movable segregating chamber
234  DF  .~.~.~ Mechanically interconnected with segregating chamber
235  DF  .~.~.~ Spring pressed or gravity actuated finger
236  DF  .~.~ Separately acting in series
237  DF  .~.~.~ All rotary
238  DF  .~.~.~ All reciprocating (including oscillating)
239  DF  .~ Delivering segregated articles to holddown means
240  DF  .~ Acting on fold or non-coextensive part
241  DF  .~ With size adjusting means
242  DF  .~.~ Magazine
243  DF  .~ Lost motion actuation and/or yieldable wall
244  DF  .~ Self-compensating for decreasing supply
245  DF  .~ With return stroke inhibitor (i.e., full-stroke mechanism)
246  DF  .~ Segregation by sliding movement of cover relative to container
247  DF  .~ Ejector with relatively movable outlet closure
248  DF  .~.~ Mechanically linked to or locked by ejector
249  DF  .~.~.~ Closure moves ejector
250  DF  .~.~ Opened by dispensed article
251  DF  .~ With separate holdback means
252  DF  .~ With plural article outlets
253  DF  .~ Endless belt carried
254  DF  .~ Movable through hopper to separate and elevate articles
255  DF  .~ Article retained by discharge assistant for manual removal
256  DF  .~.~ With pocket for retaining article
257  DF  .~.~.~ Having means facilitating article removal
258  DF  .~ Motor-operated
259  DF  .~ Surface contact only (i.e., friction)
260  DF  .~ Deformable discharging element
261  DF  .~ Ejector cooperating with article direction changing deflector
262  DF  .~ Compound motion
263  DF  .~ Having movable segregating chamber (i.e., trap chamber)
264  DF  .~.~ Axial inlet and outlet
265  DF  .~.~.~ Rotary
266  DF  .~.~ Single inlet-outlet
267  DF  .~ Segregation by ejection through resilient-type outlet
268  DF  .~ Reciprocating (including oscillating)
269  DF  .~.~ With integral outlet closure
270  DF  .~.~ With retractable pusher element
271  DF  .~.~ Spring biased to discharging position
272  DF  .~.~ Relatively movable actuator
273  DF  .~.~.~ Cam
274  DF  .~.~.~ Lever or link
275  DF  .~.~.~ Gearing
276  DF  .~.~ Spring biased
277  DF  .~ Rotary
278  DF  .~ Fluid pressure
279  DF  .~ Follower
280  DF  .~.~ With cooperating interior deflector
281  DF  WITH SEPARATE INLET FOR REPLENISHMENT OR ACCESS
282  DF  WITH CASING OR SUPPORT
283  DF  .~ Bracket or suspension supported
284  DF  .~ Weighted base or support
285  DF  .~ Base or support for angular disposition of supply container
286  DF  .~ With spaced casing
287  DF  WITH REMOVABLE CONTAINER ENCLOSING SUPPLY
288  DF  TILTABLE CONTAINER WITH TRAP
289  DF  MECHANICAL RELEASE OR SEPARATION OF ARTICLES
290  DF  .~ With additional article manipulating means
291  DF  .~.~ Article inversion
292  DF  .~.~ Rectilinearly reciprocating
293  DF  .~.~.~ Interrelated releaser and manipulating means
294  DF  .~ Delivering segregated articles to holddown
295  DF  .~ Latch released, article weight-operated
296  DF  .~ Dispensing plural articles
297  DF  .~ Multiple, simultaneously acting and circumposed controllers
298  DF  .~ Separately acting series controllers
299  DF  .~ Plural integral transversely acting controllers
300  DF  .~.~ Three or more
301  DF  .~.~ Pivoted
302  DF  WITH FRANGIBLE ELEMENT FOR OUTLET
303  DF  WITH DISPENSING-TYPE OUTLET
304  DF  .~ Adjustable size
305  DF  .~ Folded flat blank type
306  DF  .~ With closure for outlet
307  DF  .~ Resilient
308  DF  .~.~ Plural series
309  DF  .~.~ Having slot facilitating grasping of article
310  DF  .~.~ Plural spring biased or resilient fingers
311  DF  WITH DEFLECTOR FOR PARTIALLY SEPARATING ARTICLE
312 R  DF  MISCELLANEOUS (E.G., INTERIOR ARTICLE GUIDING MEANS)
312 A  DF  .~ Articles on rod
312 B  DF  .~ Magazine charging
312 C  DF  .~ Special dispensing packages
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