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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 1991
Filed:
Feb. 26, 1990
Byron L Lowe, Macon, GA (US);
Robert T Lewis, Macon, GA (US);
Kenneth M Milliner, Macon, GA (US);
Everett N Finn, Macon, GA (US);
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, Louisville, KY (US);
Abstract
A dispenser device for removing planar panels from a hopper is provided with a panel engagement drum located at the discharge of the hopper which includes friction surfaces at spaced apart locations around the perimeter for sequentially engaging subsequent bottom-most panels in the hopper and extracting them from the hopper as the drum continuously rotates. A positioner is engagable with disengagable from the bottom-most panel at the hopper discharge end to position the bottom-most spacer at a location to be engaged by the friction surfaces of the drum. A stop is operatively responsive with the positioner for engagement with the penultimate one of the panels for preventing the penultimate one of the panels from moving to the location of the positioner during the time period the positioner is in its panel disengaged position.