| 摘要 |
Apparatus and a method are disclosed for dispensing a plurality of articles, one at a time, at a filling zone into a plurality of containers so that when one of a series of containers is filled, the filling operation is automatically interrupted, the filled container is automatically moved from the filling zone, and an empty container positioned in the filling zone to be filled. The present invention employs a controllable gate for interrupting the dispensing of articles from a dispensing machine, a counter mechanism for counting the articles dispensed, a rotary table for carrying a plurality of containers past a dispensing chute on the dispensing machine, an apparatus for indexing the rotary table in response to the counting mechanism, and a second counting mechanism for counting the number of containers filled.
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