Abstract: This invention provides vending and dispensing apparatus comprising a housing having a bin section and a dispensing section separated by a belt type conveyor. The conveyor embodies means which in the movement thereof serve not only to influence elements of a conglomerate mass of material stored in the bin section to separate one from the other but to carry elements of the separated material to the dispensing section for their discharge in a relatively individualized form.The invention also features a mobile dispensing unit which may be be backed up to receive the discharge from the dispensing section of the above described housing and moved to deliver measured amounts of the material to a plurality of remote stations. The mobile unit embodies a storage type receiving chamber having a movable bottom wall structure including a pocket which accommodates a measured amount of the material delivered to the storage chamber.

Abstract: A vending or dispensing type machine featuring a turntable with a tiered superstructure embodying receptacles for articles to be dispensed. The superstructure is formed in segments which can be quickly and readily assembled per se and then easily joined, concentric to and in connection with a vertically oriented drive shaft.The machine also features simplified controls providing that each of the respective tiers of receptacles are automatically provided with a dispensing station at its own level as the receptacles of the other tiers are sealed from access.