Alternate Direction Feeding Patents (Class 206/358)
  • Patent number: 8490828
    Abstract: A package for product pieces includes a housing having a plurality of walls forming an interior adapter to hold a plurality of product pieces. The housing has a dispensing opening in communication with the interior. A resilient member is disposed in the housing interior and is adapted to urge the product pieces toward the dispensing opening. The housing has an aperture formed in one of the plurality of walls disposed adjacent the dispensing opening to permit the product piece to be engaged and moved out of the interior through the dispensing opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Kraft Foods Global, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. Kaiser, Francis G. Schiro, Allen Aldridge
  • Patent number: 4524869
    Abstract: A pill dispenser employing a cartridge contained within and rotatably mounted to a housing. The housing includes a cover and a base. The base has a post extending to receive the cartridge and a dispensing hole therethrough. The cover includes a boss having an asymmetry which allows for alignment of the cartridge when positioned on the cover. The cartridge includes holes at first radially equal locations from the center of the cartridge with one blank space therein and a second row of holes inwardly thereof. Thus, multiple pills may be dispensed through the dispensing hole in the base on a multiple cycle basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1985
    Inventor: N. Joseph Nader