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Class 221 | ARTICLE DISPENSING |
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1 | PROCESSES |
2 | WITH RECORDER, REGISTER, INDICATOR, SIGNAL OR EXHIBITOR |
3 | Audible |
4 | Dispenser part position or adjustment indicator |
6 | Empty source indicating means |
7 | Dispenser operated register |
8 | Dispenser operated display device |
9 | AUTOMATIC CONTROL |
10 | Of supply to dispenser |
12 | Of article releasing outlet closure |
13 | Of discharge assistant operation |
15 | WITH TIMING OR DELAY MECHANISM |
17 | WITH EMPTY SUPPLY SOURCE RESPONSIVE MEANS |
21 | WITH DISPENSER MALFUNCTIONING RESPONSIVE MEANS |
22 | SUBSEQUENT ARTICLE SEPARATING MEANS ACTUATED BY ARTICLE REMOVAL |
24 | SIMULATIONS |
25 | PROGRESSIVELY DESTROYED CELLULAR MAGAZINE-TYPE SUPPLY SOURCE |
26 | WITH ARTICLE TEARING OR DEFORMING SUPPLY RETAINING MEANS |
27 | CAPTIVE ARTICLE TYPE |
30 | WITH CUTTER OR PUNCH |
33 | CONCURRENT SEPARATION AND DISTORTION OF FLEXIBLE ARTICLE (E.G., NAPKIN HOLDERS) |
34 | Plural sources, stacks or compartments |
36 | By ejecting means |
37 | Actuated by source container section movement |
38 | Interleaved folds |
39 | Preliminary motion in direction away from outlet |
40 | Compound motion of ejecting means |
41 | Stationary guide or abutment cooperating with leading edge of article |
42 | Rotary |
44 | Adaptable to use with different size articles |
45 | With casing or support |
47 | With presentation of non-coextensive or distorted fold |
48 | By cooperation of interleaved folds |
49 | Refill package |
50 | With starter strip |
51 | Feeding from concave side of a stack of folded or arcuate articles |
52 | With follower |
53 | With means to relieve stack pressure |
55 | By stationary guide or abutment acting on non-coextensive folds |
56 | With follower |
61 | With separate replenishment or access inlet means |
63 | Deformation by non-coextensive outlet opening |
64 | WITH FLEXIBLE SUPPLY CONTAINER WALLS |
65 | WITH COLLAPSIBLE OR TELESCOPING SUPPLY CONTAINER WALLS |
66 | ARTICLE DELIVERY DEPENDENT UPON INSERTION OF REPLACEMENT ARTICLE |
67 | DISPENSING FROM STAGGERED STACKS |
68 | PLURAL DISPENSING STACKS FORMED FROM SINGLE SOURCE |
69 | CELLULAR MAGAZINE TYPE |
70 | Rolled or folded web type magazine (e.g., flexible pin strips) |
75 | With article movement from cell to cell |
76 | Conveyer type |
77 | Multiple strand conveyer |
79 | With means to remove article from cells |
82 | With gravity discharge from cells |
87 | With non-gravity means to remove articles from cells |
89 | Articles discharged by relative movement of cell structure components |
92 | PLURAL SOURCES, STACKS OR COMPARTMENTS |
93 | Dispensing from plural sources by single actuation |
94 | With selection of number of sources |
95 | Single discharge means successively loading from plural sources |
96 | With fluent material dispenser |
97 | With non-dispensing compartment |
98 | Movable or removable relative to dispensing compartment |
101 | Movable or removable common wall |
102 | Used article compartment |
103 | Each entirely depleted in order |
104 | Replacement source or stack movement relative to discharge means |
107 | Feeding from subsequent source or stack prevented by articles in discharge path |
110 | Serially activated discharge assistants |
111 | Articles present in dispensing stack block subsequent stack |
112 | Dispensing from sources sequentially |
119 | Rotatably mounted or endless belt carried source assembly |
123 | With discharge means for each source |
133 | With common discharge outlet |
134 | WITH MEANS TO SELECT INTERMEDIATE ARTICLES FROM STACKS |
135 | WITH ARTICLE TREATMENT |
136 | With igniting means |
137 | Match striker |
138 | Positively actuated striker |
139 | Ignition by manual removal of match |
140 | Ignition by discharge assistant forcing match against igniter |
143 | Electrical |
148 | With interrelated flint lighter and dispenser operation |
150R | With cooling or heating |
151 | WITH MEANS FOR BLOCKING OR DISABLING EJECTOR OR RELEASER |
154 | WITH LOCK, LATCH, OR SEAL FOR CONTAINER AND/OR SUPPORT |
155 | WITH TRANSPARENT INSPECTING OR VIEWING MEANS |
156 | WITH ORIENTING |
157 | Segregation of aligned articles according to orientation |
163 | Selective separation from supply |
164 | By movable lifting means engageable with aperture, groove, enlargement or depression in article |
167 | Rotatable or oscillatable means |
171 | By manipulation of successive individual articles |
174 | SUPPLY FEED MEANS TO DISPENSING HOPPER |
175 | WITH STACK FORMING MEANS |
176 | From stack source |
177 | Pivoted hopper |
178 | Movable chute or part thereof |
182 | Member rotatable or oscillatable about inclined axis |
183 | Agitator carried by or interrelated with discharging means |
185 | AMBULANT OR BODY SUPPORTED |
186 | SUPPLY CONTAINER MOVABLY MOUNTED FOR DISPENSING |
187 | With means for moving separated article transversely |
188 | Pivotally mounted supply container |
190 | Vertical motion to separate articles |
191 | DISPENSER DELIVERING TO STATIONARY ARTICLE SUPPORT FOR MANUAL REMOVAL |
192 | With article elevation to raised support |
193 | With article motion retarding baffle at inlet to support |
194 | Articles released for gravity deposit in or on support |
197 | WITH SUPPLY CARTRIDGE OR CONTAINER REMOVABLE FROM ENCLOSING CASING |
199 | COMBINED OR CONVERTIBLE |
200 | WITH MEANS TO AGITATE, VIBRATE OR JAR ARTICLES IN SUPPLY CONTAINER |
201 | Three or more agitators or discharge assistants in series |
202 | Rigidly mounted on or incorporated in discharge assistant |
204 | By movement of container section |
206 | WITH QUANTITY PRESELECTION MEANS |
208 | WITH DISCHARGE ASSISTANT |
209 | Cooperating with movably mounted supply container |
210 | Article adhering or gripping type |
211 | Suction carrier |
212 | Magnetic |
213 | Impaling |
217 | With endless or rotary article gripper carrying means |
220 | Having spring form, resilient gripper elements |
221 | Multiple, simultaneously acting and circumposed (e.g., cup dispensers) |
224 | Plural or combined with manipulating means |
225 | Three or more |
226 | Follower |
227 | With follower disabling, retracting or releasing means |
228 | With source container cover related ejector |
230 | With interrelated actuators |
231 | With rotary ejector |
232 | With reciprocating (including oscillating) ejector |
233 | Means removing article from movable segregating chamber |
234 | Mechanically interconnected with segregating chamber |
235 | Spring pressed or gravity actuated finger |
236 | Separately acting in series |
239 | Delivering segregated articles to holddown means |
240 | Acting on fold or non-coextensive part |
241 | With size adjusting means |
243 | Lost motion actuation and/or yieldable wall |
244 | Self-compensating for decreasing supply |
245 | With return stroke inhibitor (i.e., full-stroke mechanism) |
246 | Segregation by sliding movement of cover relative to container |
247 | Ejector with relatively movable outlet closure |
251 | With separate holdback means |
252 | With plural article outlets |
253 | Endless belt carried |
254 | Movable through hopper to separate and elevate articles |
255 | Article retained by discharge assistant for manual removal |
258 | Motor-operated |
259 | Surface contact only (i.e., friction) |
260 | Deformable discharging element |
261 | Ejector cooperating with article direction changing deflector |
262 | Compound motion |
263 | Having movable segregating chamber (i.e., trap chamber) |
267 | Segregation by ejection through resilient-type outlet |
268 | Reciprocating (including oscillating) |
269 | With integral outlet closure |
270 | With retractable pusher element |
271 | Spring biased to discharging position |
272 | Relatively movable actuator |
276 | Spring biased |
277 | Rotary |
278 | Fluid pressure |
279 | Follower |
281 | WITH SEPARATE INLET FOR REPLENISHMENT OR ACCESS |
282 | WITH CASING OR SUPPORT |
283 | Bracket or suspension supported |
284 | Weighted base or support |
285 | Base or support for angular disposition of supply container |
286 | With spaced casing |
287 | WITH REMOVABLE CONTAINER ENCLOSING SUPPLY |
288 | TILTABLE CONTAINER WITH TRAP |
289 | MECHANICAL RELEASE OR SEPARATION OF ARTICLES |
290 | With additional article manipulating means |
294 | Delivering segregated articles to holddown |
295 | Latch released, article weight-operated |
296 | Dispensing plural articles |
297 | Multiple, simultaneously acting and circumposed controllers |
298 | Separately acting series controllers |
299 | Plural integral transversely acting controllers |
302 | WITH FRANGIBLE ELEMENT FOR OUTLET |
303 | WITH DISPENSING-TYPE OUTLET |
311 | WITH DEFLECTOR FOR PARTIALLY SEPARATING ARTICLE |
312R | MISCELLANEOUS (E.G., INTERIOR ARTICLE GUIDING MEANS) |
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