Device for dispensing granular products

a technology for granular products and devices, which is applied in the direction of racks, coin-freed apparatuses, applications, etc., can solve the problems of inability to reliably dispense products of different shapes, inconvenient dispensing of products of the same shape, and inability to orderly transport in the direction of the dispensing opening, etc., to achieve simultaneous, successive and/or selective dispensing of products. , the effect of facilitating the dispensing of products

Inactive Publication Date: 2010-04-08
INDEL ONTWERPBUREAU HSM
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[0016]The device will usually comprise only a single dosing compartment. In an alternative preferred embodiment however, the device comprises a plurality of dosing compartments. In this way simultaneous, successive and / or selective dispensing of products can be facilitated. The dosing compartments can for instance here be oriented around the supply container in a carrousel configuration. In a particular preferred embodiment it is also possible to envisage the device comprising a plurality of supply containers, wherein each supply container is adapted to be connected to a (separate) dosing compartment.

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A drawback of the known dispenser is that only tablet products of the same shape can be successively dispensed.
It has been found that products of differing shape, such as for instance coarse grains of sugar, in particular sprinkling sugar or lumps of sugar candy, are not suitable for orderly transport in the direction of the dispensing opening.
If products of differing shape were to be arranged in the supply container, a reliable dispensing of these products is then generally not possible because the products of differing shape are usually jumbled together, which prevents or at least considerably impedes dosed dispensing of the products by the dispenser.

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[0023]FIG. 1a shows a perspective view of a first preferred embodiment of a device 1 according to the invention. Device 1 is adapted for dosed dispensing of individual products 2, in particular grain-like products. Device 1 comprises for this purpose a housing 3 and a supply container 4 for the grain-like products accommodated partially in housing 3. Supply container 4 is received slidably in housing 3, wherein supply container 4 is specifically displaceable between a (rest) position (see FIGS. 1a and 1b) and an active position (see FIGS. 1c and 1d). In order to be able to facilitate displacement of supply container 4 for a user, housing 3 is provided with recesses 5a, 5b. In the cross-section shown in FIG. 1b it can be seen that supply container 4 comprises a bottom element 6 and an upper wall 7. The shortest distance between bottom element 6 and upper wall 7 amounts in this embodiment to about six times the average diameter of grains 2, whereby grains 2 can displace substantially ...

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Abstract

Dispensers for successive release of tablet-like or pill-like products, such as for instance sweets, sweeteners, medication, lozenges and so on are already known. A drawback of the known dispenser is that only tablet products of the same shape can be successively dispensed. The invention relates to an improved device for dispensing such products.

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FIELD OF INVENTION[0001]The invention relates to a device for dispensing grain-like products.BACKGROUND OF INVENTION[0002]Dispensers for successive release of tablet-like or pill-like products, such as for instance sweets, sweeteners, medication, lozenges and so on are already known. An example of a known dispenser is described in the international patent application WO2006 / 116370. The dispenser described in this patent publication comprises a housing incorporating a supply container for products in tablet form. The supply container comprises a separate resilient bottom element which connects to the dispensing channel for the products in tablet form. The dispensing channel is provided with a dispensing opening on an outer end remote from the supply container. Because the dispensing channel tapers in the direction of the dispensing opening, wherein the dimensioning of the dispensing channel is such that the tablets can only be transported successively through the dispensing channel, ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): B65D83/04
CPCB65D2583/0481B65D83/0409
Inventor VAN DEN BROEK, LUCAS KAREL JOHANNESVAN DEN BROEK, ROELAND JOHANNES THOMAS
Owner INDEL ONTWERPBUREAU HSM
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