US PATENT SUBCLASS 221 / 164
.~.~ By movable lifting means engageable with aperture, groove, enlargement or depression in article

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221 /   HD   ARTICLE DISPENSING

156  DF  WITH ORIENTING {3}
163  DF  .~ Selective separation from supply {2}
164.~.~ By movable lifting means engageable with aperture, groove, enlargement or depression in article {2}
165  DF  .~.~.~> Head only of headed article
166  DF  .~.~.~> By individual picker finger

DEFINITION

Classification: 221/164

(under subclass 163) Devices in which the segregation of only such articles as are turned in the desired direction is effected by movable segregating means which engage and support such properly positioned articles by a slot, notch, hole or protuberance in such articles and lift them from the source of supply.

(1) Note. The construction is such that articles lacking the head, slot notch, etc., could not be handled therein.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

167+, especially subclass 170, for dispensers having shaped outlets, which may be formed by pins which lift the article, but by surrounding it or forming a shaped passage for it.

179+, for article dispensing devices in which movable elements within hopper sources of supply raise articles to be dispensed above the mass of articles in such hoppers, as an incident to the segregation and dispensing of such articles.

254, for article dispensing devices in which a discharge assistant moves through a hopper to separate and elevate articles as an incident to the dispensing of such articles.