Patents Assigned to Sweetheart Cut Company, Inc.
  • Container dispensing systems especially useful for dispensing edible cones
    Patent number: 5918765
    Abstract: Container dispensing system sequentially dispense containers from a nested stack. The systems have a support frame for accepting multiple stack of nested containers aligned in a cross-machine direction having upper and lower opposed pairs of gates. The gates are coupled to the support frame and extend in the cross-machine direction. Each upper and lower opposed pairs of gates defines gate openings sized so as to capture and support a lowermost and a next lowermost container in the stack respectively. A controller (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1999
    Assignee: Sweetheart Cut Company, Inc.
    Inventors: R. Carl Blankenship, Charles M. Smith, Kenneth H. Bealer