US PATENT SUBCLASS 221 / 210
.~ Article adhering or gripping type

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221 /   HD   ARTICLE DISPENSING

208  DF  WITH DISCHARGE ASSISTANT {28}
210.~ Article adhering or gripping type {5}
211  DF  .~.~> Suction carrier
212  DF  .~.~> Magnetic
213  DF  .~.~> Impaling {1}
217  DF  .~.~> With endless or rotary article gripper carrying means {2}
220  DF  .~.~> Having spring form, resilient gripper elements

DEFINITION

Classification: 221/210

(under subclass 208) Devices in which the discharge assistant is provided with means or is of such form as to affirmatively hold articles during separation thereof from the supply as, for example, by gripping, piercing, adhesion, etc., as distinguished from structures which rely upon gravity or attitude or relatively stationary walls of the dispensing device to maintain the articles and discharge assistant in cooperative relationship.

(1) Note. Oppositely disposed discharge assistants having ever-changing surface contact with opposite sides of articles as they are dispensed are not considered to be grippers for this and the indented subclasses and are classified in other appropriate subclasses, see for example subclass 259.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

164+, for orienting type article dispensing devices in which articles are selectively separated from the source of supply by movable lifting means engageable with portions of such articles.

259, see (1) Note, above.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

24, Buckles, Buttons, Clasps, etc., 455+, for clasps, per se.

198, Conveyors: Power-Driven, appropriate subclasses for power-driven conveyors with such means, particularly

468.2+, and 688.1+.

294, Handling: Hand and Hoist-Line Implements, appropriate subclasses for hand and hoist-line grapples.