Abstract: A dispensing device for use with a guide or shaft for dispensed objects. The guide consists of a fixed guide wall and an adjustable wall, the distance between walls being adjustable according to the width of the dispensed objects by means of an adjustable spreader. An escapement means is provided, comprising two apertures formed in the guide wall one above the other; on the side remote from the shaft there is arranged a reciprocable shifter with a groove and a hollow for each of the apertures, in each of the mentioned recesses there being movingly seated a selectively operable, movable locking element.