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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2001
Leonid Leykin, Baltimore, MD (US);
Aleksandr Kofman, Rockville, MD (US);
LHD Vending, Inc., Owings Mills, MD (US);
Abstract
A bun dispensing device for a hot dog dispensing machine operative for dispensing buns from a bun containing element which includes a plurality of individual bun containers and a common film to which the bun containers are releasably attached one after the other, the device has a unit for pulling the bun containing element, a unit for separating the bun containers with buns accommodated therein from the film of the bun containing element and located upstream of the pulling a unit, and a unit for guiding the bun containing element and located upstream of the separating unit, the separating unit being formed so that each of the bun containers with the bun accommodated therein is individually separated from the film under the action of the separating unit.