Abstract: A bead dispenser for gravity feed dispensing beads one at a time from a plurality thereof. A main dispenser body includes a bead reservoir, a bead outlet and a cavity between the reservoir and the outlet for receiving a slidable, retractable plunger having an aperture alignable with the bead outlet. Opposing respective angled surfaces on the plunger and the dispenser main body are adapted to individually feed the beads into the plunger aperture for dispensing one at a time.

Abstract: A container for the dispensing of tablets one by one in which a tablet drop-out opening is provided in the wall of the container below a storage chamber, a spring-loaded slide traveling in front of the region of the opening and releasing in each case one of the tablets so that it can drop out, the slide having associated with it a division finger which, in the depressed position of the slide which is continued towards the outside by an actuating button, blocks the path between the bottom opening of the storage chamber and the tablet drop-out opening.

Abstract: A tube feeding device, particularly for use in a bending machine, comprises two units spaced from one another at a predetermined distance to form a tube magazine therebetween. A carriage with a recess to receive one individual tube is positioned at the bottom of the tube magazine. A chain conveyor is provided in the device adapted to receive individual tubes from the recess and transport the tubes toward the bending machine. The carriage is adapted to move towards and away from the chain conveyor to deliver the individual tube to the conveyor which is provided with a plurality of grippers adapted to carry the tubes and to advance them in a vertical direction.

Abstract: A soda straw dispenser consisting of a fixed body having an outlet for a single straw, a container movable within said body member and also having an outlet for a single straw, an ejector member carried by the container, the ejector member normally being open to the container for receiving a single straw therein, and mechanism carried by the container and operable to close the ejector member to the container and open it to the container outlet, when the body and container outlets are in registering relation.

Abstract: A dispensing unit for elongated articles is disclosed including a pair of dispensing members which are operated by hand to dispense articles from a storage bin through a dispensing port. The dispensing members are structured so as to cooperate with the interior walls of the storage bin, and also with a sorting tab mounted on the interior thereof, to ensure that the articles waiting to be dispensed from within the unit are properly aligned in the storage bin adjacent the dispensing port so that jamming of the objects inside of the storage bin is prevented.

Abstract: A tablet dispenser for fumigating agricultural commodities, such as grain, animal feed, and the like, comprises a container shaped to receive a plurality of pesticide tablets therein, and including a base with a dispenser aperture therethrough. A rotor is rotatively mounted in the container base, and includes an upper portion, a medial portion, and a lower portion. The medial portion of the rotor is spaced apart from the container sidewall, and forms an annularly shaped channel therebetween which is proportioned to receive therein a single file ring of the pesticide tablets, each oriented on a circumferential edge thereof. The lower portion of the rotor extends outwardly of the medial portion to form a base surface of the channel on which the tablets are supported, and includes a dispensing aperture therethrough positioned for selective alignment with the container base aperture.

Abstract: In a process for delivering cylindrical containers into machines for further processing, the containers slide into a feed channel under gravity in a random sequence and are transported through this channel in an upright position by the action of an intermittently operating thrust. From the feed channel, the containers are transferred in sequence to a transport carriage equipped with individual holders which are successively positioned in relation to the feed channel. When fully loaded, the transport carriage is driven into the machine for further processing.

Abstract: A coin-controlled, manually operable machine for vending several dozen golf balls at a time. The vending machine has a ball hopper and a ramp below the hopper defining a ball dispensing opening between them. A gate rotatably mounted at the opening, extends partially there across in its closed position to cause the balls to bridge the opening. When the double-stroke actuating lever is pulled forward and returned, the gate is swung or kicked into the mass of balls twice to break up the bridging of balls to release a sufficient excess of balls down the ramp to assure filling of a rotatable ball receiver-dumper cylinder extending across the bottom of the ramp. The actuating lever is maintained inoperative by a coin-releasable locking mechanism. The receiver-dumper cylinder has a keeper slot receiving a limiting lug.

Abstract: An apparatus for dispensing toothpicks or the like comprises a receptacle having a lower surface that slopes downwardly from the rear wall of the receptacle toward the front wall and is spaced slightly from the front wall to define a discharge opening through which toothpicks may pass one at a time. A slide member is reciprocally mounted beneath the inclined lower surface and held in place by a bottom plate which is secured to the receptacle by fastening screws that pass through guide slots in the slide member to guide movement of the slide. The slide member is spring biased forwardly and includes a delivery channel that is alternately positionable between a receiving position in alignment with the discharge opening and a removal position forwardly of the front wall of the receptacle.