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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 1993
Filed:
Sep. 11, 1990
Kim C Fietsam, New Athens, IL (US);
Duke Manufacturing Co., St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
A dispenser for stackable articles such as dishes and the like. The dispenser comprises a housing having an opening in its top, a carriage for supporting a generally vertical stack of the articles, mechanism for biasing the carriage vertically upwardly in the housing to dispense the articles from the top of the housing, a plurality of elongate guide members in the housing, and apparatus for mounting the guide members. The carriage is moveable within the housing along a generally vertical central axis of the housing. The guide members are spaced about the periphery of the carriage for retaining the articles in a generally vertical stack. Each guide member has a vertically extending guide surface for slideably abutting marginal edge portions of the articles stacked on the carriage. The guide members are mounted for coordinated movement of their respective guide surfaces so that movement of one guide surface into position to accommodate articles of a particular size simultaneously moves the other guide surfaces into position to accommodate articles of that size.