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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 27, 1988
David R Frerking, Des Moines, IA (US);
Fawn Engineering Corp., Des Moines, IA (US);
Abstract
A dispensing machine having a cabinet; an endless, upright conveyor mounted within the cabinet and having an elliptical-type shape with opposed vertical stretches; a dispensing station formed on a housing for the cabinet and disposed adjacent one of the vertical stretches of the conveyor; a plurality of product carriers each of which has support devices formed on opposite ends thereof; a plurality of arms, each arm mounting a carrier on the conveyor and enabling movement of the carriers in succession past the station; a stabilizer unit rotatably connected to each mounting arm and having a follower, the stabilizer unit adapted to receive the support devices; and a pair of horizontally offset elliptical-type guidepaths with vertical stretches extended parallel the vertical stretches of the conveyor. The dispensing machine comprises further a carrier sensing device mounted on the cabinet for interacting with a cost identification unit mounted on each carrier.