Abstract: An apparatus for dispensing articles such as tickets, cards and the like includes a base, a frame mounted on the base for enclosing in a stack a plurality of articles to be dispensed, a gate and a transport mechanism. The transport mechanism includes a rotably mounted drum, a pair of toothed wheels fixedly mounted on the drum, a pair of rotably mounted exit rollers, a motor for driving the drum and one of the exit rollers and an arrangement of gears for coupling the motor to the drum and the drum to one of the exit rollers. In the operation of the apparatus, the toothed wheels transport articles from the stack into the gate and the exit rollers discharge articles from the gate, the gate allowing only one article at a time to pass through.