Improvements in and relating to cup dispensing mechanisms

1,014,491. Dispensing cups. GLOSTER EQUIPMENT Ltd. Sept. 5, 1962 [Sept. 6, 1961], No. 31992/61. Heading B8S. Cups are dispensed singly from the bottom of a stack through aperture 2 by a device which includes pivoted arms 27, 28 and sliders 14, 15. The arms 27, 28 are pivoted at 9 and 10, and sliders 14, 15 carry stripper cams 37. The device is operated by the movement of link 33 about pivot 34 by means of driving arm 35. Link 33 is connected to sliders 14 and 15 by studs 21 and 23 carried by the sliders so that clockwise movement of link 33 (Fig. 2) causes slider 14 to move rightwards and slider 15 to move leftwards. The rectilinear movement of sliders 14 and 15 effects two actions. Firstly, the stripper cams 36 and 27 engage between the lowermost cup and the next lowermost cup to separate the two cups. Secondly, pivoted arms 27 and 28 are caused to pivot outwardly about pivots 9 and 10 by the engagement therewith of studs 22 and 24 carried by the sliders. In this way the lowermost cup is separated from the stack and the outward movement of arms 27 and 28 permits the separated cup to fall and be discharged. The link arm 33 is then moved anticlockwise to its initial position. This brings back into original position both the sliders 14, 15 and arms 27, 28 so that the stripper cams 36, 37 are removed from the stack which is then supported by the arms 27, 28 now in their inner position. Thus each oscillation of link 33 effects the discharge of a cup from the stack through aperture 2.