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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 1992
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Leonard A Ficken, Manchester, MO (US);
Gerald J Podgorny, St. Louis, MO (US);
Assignee:
UniDynamics Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
221 11 ; 221 17 ; 221113 ; 221105 ;
Abstract
A cup dispenser for dispensing cups from a stack of nested cups each of which has a rim wherein the stack being dispensed is held up in dispensing position in a dispensing opening, the lowermost cup of the stack being released to drop down and the next cup being held up to hold up the remainder of the stack, first and second reverse stacks being held adjacent the opening, one or the other of these reserve stacks being moved into dispensing position in the dispensing opening in response to depletion of the stack in dispensing position.