SELECTIVE DISPENSER WITH CLIP STORAGE FOR DISPENSING SMALL ARTICLES IN PRESET QUANTITIES

摘要

A lower circular floor includes tablet storage tubes around the periphery adapted to register with a valve element for discharge through a discharge opening in a support base. The valve element may be selectively reciprocated by a cam operated power device to dispense the desired number of tablets from the desired storage container. A second floor is placed on the top of the first plurality of storage containers and includes radially disposed clips of storage containers adapted to successively move into registry with the associated storage containers therebelow. A spring means biases the upper storage containers into registry with the lower containers as empty containers are removed. The clip of storage containers may be replaced when empty. The clip includes a bottom wall and an opening normally yieldably closed by a slide door which is moved to an open position when the clip is placed in position on the top floor with one of the plurality of containers in the clip being in registry with the associated lower container.