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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1987
Filed:
Sep. 28, 1984
Paul R Goudy, Jr, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Keith A Lamon, St. Francis, WI (US);
William G Weekley, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Autotrol Corporation, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Abstract
A dispensing device for a bactericidal pellet such as chlorine tablets which is readily adapted to being placed on a hopper container for the pellets and which can dispense the pellets such as in conjunction with a well or a water recirculation system while employing a minimum number of parts. The pellet dispenser employs a unique rotor member with pellet carrying passages designed to dispense the pellets from the hopper and out of the pellet dispenser in an individual manner and without jamming. In the instance where pellets may become improperly placed in the pellet carrying passages so that the rotor does not properly move inside the rotor housing, a bi-directional self-reversing motor is utilized so that the tablet dispensing sequence will continue in an accurate manner. This is effected in part by a bidirectional rotor member which is able to dispense tablets in a clockwise or counterclockwise manner.