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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 10, 1995
Lee R Wiese, Upper Nyack, NY (US);
Henschel-Steinau, Inc., Englewood, NJ (US);
Abstract
A rack for storing and presenting, for serial dispensing, a plurality of bottles suspended from a suspension location at an elevation in the rack in a line essentially parallel to the rack and through a dispensing station, the rack being inclined upwardly away from the dispensing station for biasing the bottles into the dispensing station by the force of gravity, a gate at the dispensing station having gate members including engagement surfaces for engaging the forwardmost bottle, placed in the dispensing station, at stabilizing locations below the elevation of the suspension location and spaced downwardly a vertical distance from the elevation of the suspension location, and above the elevation of the suspension location and spaced upwardly a vertical distance from the elevation of the suspension location sufficient to maintain the forwardmost bottle in an essentially vertical orientation, stabilized against the force of gravity, including the forward force of the remaining bottles suspended along the line behind the forwardmost bottle.