摘要 |
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for dispensing flexible, elastic flanged containers from a nested stack of such containers. In that apparatus and method, the sidewall of the bottommost container is compressed causing the remainder of the stack of containers to move vertically upward and a separator is inserted into the gap created between the flange of the bottommost container and the flange of the next-to-the bottommost container. Thereafter, the bottommost container is dispensed from the remainder of the stack of containers. In the preferred embodiment, compression is provided by a set of cammed spacemaker blades.
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