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Class Number: 221
Class Title: ARTICLE DISPENSING
Subclass Subclass
Number Title
1 PROCESSES
2 WITH RECORDER, REGISTER, INDICATOR, SIGNAL OR EXHIBITOR
3 .Audible
4 .Dispenser part position or adjustment indicator
5 ..Article selection indicator
6 .Empty source indicating means
7 .Dispenser operated register
8 .Dispenser operated display device
9 AUTOMATIC CONTROL
10 .Of supply to dispenser
11 ..By replacing depleted stack with a similar stack
12 .Of article releasing outlet closure
13 .Of discharge assistant operation
14 ..In response to depletion of supply
15 WITH TIMING OR DELAY MECHANISM
16 .Dashpot restrained discharging means
17 WITH EMPTY SUPPLY SOURCE RESPONSIVE MEANS
18 .Having motion inhibitor for discharge means
19 ..Latch means
20 ...On follower
21 WITH DISPENSER MALFUNCTIONING RESPONSIVE MEANS
22 SUBSEQUENT ARTICLE SEPARATING MEANS ACTUATED BY ARTICLE REMOVAL
23 .Article operated discharge assistant
24 SIMULATIONS
25 PROGRESSIVELY DESTROYED CELLULAR MAGAZINE-TYPE SUPPLY SOURCE
26 WITH ARTICLE TEARING OR DEFORMING SUPPLY RETAINING MEANS
27 CAPTIVE ARTICLE TYPE
28 .With means to remove articles from point of use
29 .Slidable relative to supporting guide
30 WITH CUTTER OR PUNCH
31 .To form outlet opening
32 ..Tear strip type
33 CONCURRENT SEPARATION AND DISTORTION OF FLEXIBLE ARTICLE (E.G.,
NAPKIN HOLDERS)
34 .Plural sources, stacks or compartments
35 ..Oppositely faced dispensing outlets
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
43 ...Friction roller
44 .Adaptable to use with different size articles
45 .With casing or support
46 ..With removable supply magazine
47 .With presentation of non-coextensive or distorted fold
48 ..By cooperation of interleaved folds
49 ...Refill package
50 ...With starter stripp
51 ...Feeding from concave side of a stack of folded or arcuate
articles
52 ...With follower
53 ...With means to relieve stack pressure
54 ....Movable
55 ..By stationary guide or abutment acting on non-coextensive
folds
56 .With follower
57 ..With replenishment interlock
58 ..Spring form
59 ..Spring biased
60 ...Pivoted
61 .With separate replenishment or access inlet means
62 ..Pivoted container component
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)
71 ..With means for feeding web for dispensing
72 ...Article release by magazine movement
73 ....By stripping off surface adhered articles
74 ...With ejector
75 .With article movement from cell to cell
76 .Conveyer type
77 ..Multiple strand conveyer
78 ...With ejector
79 ..With means to remove article from cells
80 ...Stationary ejector
81 ...Interrelated with means to advance cell position
82 ..With gravity discharge from cells
83 ...With outlet closure operator and interrelated magazine
advancing or locking means
84 ...Flexible conveyer belt carried cell structure
85 ....Having horizontal article carrying run
86 ...With relatively movable cell or component thereof
87 .With non-gravity means to remove articles from cells
88 ..Single ejecting means for all cells
89 .Articles discharged by relative movement of cell structure
components
90 ..Pivoted shelf or door
91 ..Sliding closure common to plural cells
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
99 ...Sliding drawer
100 ...Hinged
101 ..Movable or removable common wall
102 ..Used article compartmentt
103 .Each entirely depleted in order
104 ..Replacement source or stack movement relative to discharge
means
105 ...Pivotal movement about a fixed axis
106 ...Rectilinear movement
107 ..Feeding from subsequent source or stack prevented by articles
in discharge path
108 ...By article presence or absence responsive means
109 ....Progressive release of multiple gates for three or more
sources or stacks
110 ..Serially activated discharge assistants
111 ..Articles present in dispensing stack block subsequent stack
112 .Dispensing from sources sequentially
113 ..Sources rotate relative to common outlet
114 ..By individual interrelated segregating means
115 ...Axially spaced
116 ...Alternately
117 ....With oppositely faced outlets
118 ....From relatively stepped sources
119 .Rotatably mounted or endless belt carried source assembly
120 ..Axially spaced sets of peripherally arranged sources
121 ..Relative to common outlet
122 ...With means assuring alignment of source and outlet
123 .With discharge means for each source
124 ..Separate discharge means for each source
125 ...With lockout means
126 ...With common selector element
127 ....Selection by actuator manipulation (i.e., actuator is
selector)
128 .....By reverse manipulation
129 ...Electrical control
130 ...Superposed dispensers
131 ...Dispensers in juxtaposed alignment
132 ...Annularly arranged dispensers
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
141 ....Axial movement of match
142 ....Transverse movement of match
143 ..Electrical
144 ...Including vacuum or draft producing means
145 ....Pump or fan
146 ....Stack or chimney
147 ...Heater energized by dispensing operation
148 ..With interrelated flint lighter and dispenser operation
149 ...Movement of container part initiates operation
150 R .With cooling or heating
150 HC ..Heating and cooling combined
150 A ..Heating
151 WITH MEANS FOR BLOCKING OR DISABLING EJECTOR OR RELEASER
152 .By engagement with slot, notch or protuberance
153 .Motor operatedd
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
158 ..With recombining of articles
159 ..With return to supply
160 ...Within confines of, or overlying supply container
161 ....By means movable relative to terminal outlet
162 .....Rotary wheel or brush
163 .Selective separation from supply
164 ..By movable lifting means engageable with aperture, groove,
enlargement or depression in article
165 ...Head only of headed article
166 ...By individual picker finger
167 ..Rotatable or oscillatable means
168 ...With agitator or exit clearing means
169 ...With multiple traveling shaped outlets
170 ....Outlets formed by pins
171 .By manipulation of successive individual articles
172 ..Gravitating articles contacting fixed abutments
173 ..By positive rotation of 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
179 ..Within hopper
180 ...Oscillating pivoted chute section
181 ...Axially movable
182 .Member rotatable or oscillatable about inclined axis
183 .Agitator carried by or interrelated with discharging means
184 ..Rigidly connected
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
189 ..Relative to stationary article trap
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
195 ..By discharge assistant
196 ...Movable segregating chamber
197 WITH SUPPLY CARTRIDGE OR CONTAINER REMOVABLE FROM ENCLOSING
CASING
198 .With follower operating in cartridge or container
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
203 ..Rotary
204 .By movement of container section
205 ..Pivoted wall section
206 WITH QUANTITY PRESELECTION MEANS
207 .Variation by adjustmentt
208 WITH DISCHARGE ASSISTANT
209 .Cooperating with movably mounted supply container
210 .Article adhering or gripping type
211 ..Suction carrier
212 ..Magnetic
213 ..Impaling
214 ...With means to strip articles from impaling means
215 ....Cam-operated stripping means
216 ....Stationary abutment
217 ..With endless or rotary article gripper carrying means
218 ...Endless belt carrier
219 ...Having cam-operated pivoted jaw type gripper elements
220 ..Having spring form, resilient gripper elements
221 .Multiple, simultaneously acting and circumposed (e.g., cup
dispensers)
222 ..Rotary
223 ..Oscillating
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
229 ....Cover controlled 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
237 ...All rotary
238 ...All reciprocating (including oscillating)
239 .Delivering segregated articles to holddown means
240 .Acting on fold or non-coextensive part
241 .With size adjusting means
242 ..Magazine
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
248 ..Mechanically linked to or locked by ejector
249 ...Closure moves ejector
250 ..Opened by dispensed article
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
256 ..With pocket for retaining article
257 ...Having means facilitating article 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)
264 ..Axial inlet and outlett
265 ...Rotary
266 ..Single inlet-outlet
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
273 ...Cam
274 ...Lever or link
275 ...Gearing
276 ..Spring biased
277 .Rotary
278 .Fluid pressure
279 .Follower
280 ..With cooperating interior deflector
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
291 ..Article inversion
292 ..Rectilinearly reciprocating
293 ...Interrelated releaser and 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
300 ..Three or more
301 ..Pivoted
302 WITH FRANGIBLE ELEMENT FOR OUTLET
303 WITH DISPENSING-TYPE OUTLET
304 .Adjustable size
305 .Folded flat blank type
306 .With closure for outlet
307 .Resilient
308 ..Plural series
309 ..Having slot facilitating grasping of article
310 ..Plural spring biased or resilient fingers
311 WITH DEFLECTOR FOR PARTIALLY SEPARATING ARTICLE
312 R MISCELLANEOUS (E.G., INTERIOR ARTICLE GUIDING MEANS)
312 A .Articles on rod
312 B .Magazine charging
312 C .Special dispensing packages
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