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WO2001008535A1
WO2001008535A1 PCT/GB2000/002783 GB0002783W WO0108535A1 WO 2001008535 A1 WO2001008535 A1 WO 2001008535A1 GB 0002783 W GB0002783 W GB 0002783W WO 0108535 A1 WO0108535 A1 WO 0108535A1
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packages
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dispenser according
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Ian Alexander Webb
Richard Appleby
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Gillette Co LLC
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Gillette Co LLC
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Priority to AU60036/00A priority patent/AU6003600A/en
Publication of WO2001008535A1 publication Critical patent/WO2001008535A1/fr
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
    • A47F1/00—Racks for dispensing merchandise; Containers for dispensing merchandise
    • A47F1/04—Racks or containers with arrangements for dispensing articles, e.g. by means of gravity or springs
    • A47F1/08—Racks or containers with arrangements for dispensing articles, e.g. by means of gravity or springs dispensing from bottom
    • A47F1/10—Racks or containers with arrangements for dispensing articles, e.g. by means of gravity or springs dispensing from bottom having mechanical dispensing means, e.g. with buttons or handles
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
    • A47F1/00—Racks for dispensing merchandise; Containers for dispensing merchandise
    • A47F1/04—Racks or containers with arrangements for dispensing articles, e.g. by means of gravity or springs
    • A47F1/08—Racks or containers with arrangements for dispensing articles, e.g. by means of gravity or springs dispensing from bottom

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  • This invention is concerned with dispensers for storing a supply of separate product packages and presenting the packages for removal by customers in a self-select retail environment in which customers collect items they wish to purchase and pay for the selected items at a so-called check-out station.
  • security can be a problem, and in particular small packages of consumable products having a relatively high sales value can be stolen with several packages of the same product being taken at the same time. It is known to present such packages to self-select customers in dispensers which are designed to enable removal of only one package at a time.
  • a dispenser including a container for holding a substantially upright stack of horizontal packages, and a dispensing device, in particular a drawer member, for receiving a lowermost package from the stack contained within the container, the dispensing device being actuable by a customer to present the received package for removal from the dispenser.
  • a dispensing device in particular a drawer member, for receiving a lowermost package from the stack contained within the container, the dispensing device being actuable by a customer to present the received package for removal from the dispenser.
  • the present invention addresses the problem explained above and as a solution it proposes a dispenser comprising a container for holding a stack of packages, a dispensing device for receiving a package from a lower end of the stack and operable for removing the received package from the dispenser, wherein opposed walls of the container are so arranged that over the majority of the height of the stack the packages are disposed in horizontally inclined orientations therebetween, and that as each package approaches the dispensing device at the lower end of the container the package adjusts to a substantially horizontal orientation.
  • the dispensing device is arranged to displace a package received thereby forwardly away from the lower end of the stack, and the front and rear walls of the container are spaced apart at such a distance that the packages in the upper part of the container are held in rearwardly upwardly inclined positions at 20 to 40° to the horizontal.
  • the rear wall is profiled so that it is downwardly rearwardly inclined at a bottom end portion of the container to increase the spacing between the front and rear walls in this region so that the packages can move to the horizontal position before or at the time of being received by the dispensing device.
  • the distance between the front and rear walls be variable, which is conveniently achieved by the position of at least one of the front and rear walls being selectively variable.
  • the rear and/or front wall is selectively engageable with any one of a plurality of slots formed in the side walls of the container.
  • the width of the container between its side walls can be changed by mounting inserts of appropriate thickness on the insides of the side walls.
  • Figure 1 is a schematic vertical cross-section through a dispenser according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a detailed illustration of the profile of the rear wall slide rails
  • Figures 3 A to 3D are a schematic plan views of a dispenser with a two compartment container, showing how it is adjusted for dispensing packages of different sizes;
  • Figure 4 is a schematic vertical cross-section through a two compartment dispenser embodying the invention.
  • Figure 5 is a similar view to Figure 4 showing a modified form of the dispenser.
  • the dispenser shown in Figure 1 of the drawings of the present application includes a container 5 for receiving an upright stack of packages 2, and a dispensing device in the form of a sliding drawer 6 movable horizontally forwardly from the closed position in which it is illustrated in the drawing to an open position in which a package 2 received within an upwardly open recess 8 defined in the drawer is presented for removal, the drawer 6 having a pull handle 10 at the front for operating the drawer.
  • the container has a front wall 501 and a rear wall 502.
  • the rear wall 502 has forwardly projecting vertical ribs 504 which form slide rails for packages as they move downwardly as a result of packages being delivered from the dispenser.
  • the front wall 501 may have similar ribs 505 (see Figure 3A) forming slide rails.
  • the distance F separating the front and rear walls, in particular the surfaces of their slide rails 504,505 is arranged to be slightly shorter, preferably about 2 to 5mm shorter, than the length of the packages 2 to be dispensed.
  • the packages are unable to lie flat between the front and rear walls, at least in the upper part of the container, and the packages are constrained to adopt orientations in which they are inclined rearwardly and upwardly at an angle of about 30° to the horizontal.
  • the packages are indicated to be of a type having a backing card 201 with a compartment 202 which houses the packaged product formed on the front of the backing card and extending over slightly less than half the length of the backing card.
  • the stacked packages 2 are inclined in the dispenser container 5 with the product compartments lowermost, which the packages naturally favour due to the product weight.
  • the ribs 504 of the rear wall 502 are relieved at the bottom end of the container, and in particular they have rearwardly downwardly inclined portions 506 so that the distance between the front and rear walls increases at the bottom of the container enabling the first package in the container above that received in the recess 8 of the dispensing drawer 6 to fall to a horizontal position ready to drop into the drawer recess when the drawer has been emptied and is returned to the closed position.
  • the profile of the rear wall rails 504 is shown in more detail in Figure 2 in which the rear wall is shown to slope forwardly again after the rearwardly sloping section 506, which is to encourage the packages to move to the front of the drawer recess 8.
  • any tendency for the packages to become disorganised and jam in the dispenser can be averted.
  • the dispenser can be adapted to suit packages of different sizes by the distance between the front and rear walls 501,502 being variable.
  • Shown in figure 3 A is a dispenser with a container 5 forming two compartments 510,512 for holding respective stacks of packages. Each compartment is confined by a front wall, a rear wall and opposite side walls. At a medial section the container side walls 514,516 are formed with a series of parallel grooves or slots 515. The rear wall 502 of the front compartment 510, and the front 501 wall of the rear compartment are selectively engageable in the slots 515 to vary the length F of the two compartments to suit the packages to be stacked therein and to be dispensed.
  • the two adjustable walls 501 and 502 are positioned so that packages 2A of a shortest length can be dispensed.
  • the position of the rear wall 502 of the front compartment 510 is changed to enable larger packages 2B and 2C respectively, to be dispensed whilst the rear compartment is intended to dispense the smallest packages 2 A.
  • the rear wall 502 of the front compartment 510 is positioned for the largest length packages 2D to be dispensed, but as these packages are also narrower, inserts 525 are mounted on the compartment side walls.
  • the inserts 525 are slidable into and out of engagement with the side walls which are equipped with retaining elements 526 of L-shaped cross- section for engaging lips provided on the side edges of the inserts 525. Similar elements 526 are provided at the sides of the rear compartment 512 for mounting inserts in this compartment if required.
  • Figure 4 illustrates a two compartment dispenser with a first dispensing drawer 106 for delivering product packages 2 from the front compartment 510, and a second dispensing drawer 106' for delivering product packages from the rear compartment 512.
  • the construction and operation of the dispensing drawers 106, 106' will be understood from the description of International Application No. WO 00/10433 which is appended hereto.
  • the packages 2 stack in rearwardly and upwardly inclined positions, except at the bottom of the compartment where, on arrival, the packages are allowed to tip down to a horizontal orientation ready to drop into the top recess 8 of the dispensing drawer 106 or 106'.
  • This inclined stacking followed by falling into a horizontal position is achieved by appropriate spacing between the front and rear walls 501 , 502 of the compartment 510, 512 in relation to the length of the packages, as explained above in connection with Figures 1 and 2.
  • the required spacing between the front and rear walls of each compartment 510, 512 is obtained by fitting separately formed ribs 504 of appropriate depth to the fixed rear walls 502.
  • Two spaced parallel ribs 504 are clipped onto each of the rear walls 502.
  • the depth of each rib is reduced over a bottom end section 506 of the rib to allow the packs to fall to the horizontal position.
  • FIG. 5 shows the same dispenser as that of Figure 4 but fitted with ribs 504 of greater depth to suit packages 2 which are of shorter length. Also, in this embodiment the packages 2 are thinner, and a spacer 530 is installed in the recess 8 of each dispensing drawer 106, 106' to reduce the depth of the recess to suit the package thickness.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un distributeur, destiné en particulier à être utilisé dans un environnement de vente au détail en libre service, et conçu pour effectuer une distribution régulée de paquets. Ce distributeur comprend un conteneur (5) qui contient une pile verticale de paquets (2), ainsi qu'un tiroir de distribution (6), ce qui permet de retirer lesdits paquets depuis le fond de la pile. La structure et les dimensions de ce conteneur (5) sont telles que les paquets (2) sont placés en position inclinée jusqu'à ce qu'ils atteignent le fond dudit conteneur, sur lequel ils se trouvent disposés à l'horizontale et sont donc prêts à être distribués. Ce conteneur peut être réglé pour s'adapter à des paquets de différentes tailles.
PCT/GB2000/002783 1999-07-29 2000-07-19 Distributeurs de produits Ceased WO2001008535A1 (fr)

Priority Applications (3)

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DE60008542T DE60008542T2 (de) 1999-07-29 2000-07-19 Produktabgabegerät
EP00946161A EP1202655B1 (fr) 1999-07-29 2000-07-19 Distributeurs de produits
AU60036/00A AU6003600A (en) 1999-07-29 2000-07-19 Product dispensers

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GBGB9917868.3A GB9917868D0 (en) 1999-07-29 1999-07-29 Product dispensers
GB9917868.3 1999-07-29

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ES (1) ES2215687T3 (fr)
GB (1) GB9917868D0 (fr)
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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US9351615B2 (en) 2013-07-23 2016-05-31 S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. Toilet caddy assembly and method of forming a toilet caddy assembly

Citations (5)

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DE488545C (de) * 1927-06-14 1930-01-07 Wilhelm Benselmann Warenausgabevorrichtung
US1782597A (en) * 1928-05-24 1930-11-25 Parker Pen Co Dispensing cabinet
GB1543561A (en) * 1976-05-05 1979-04-04 Mars Inc Vending machines
US4850511A (en) * 1987-04-17 1989-07-25 M&M/Mars Dispensing rack
WO2000010433A1 (fr) 1998-08-19 2000-03-02 The Gillette Company Distributeurs de produits

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE488545C (de) * 1927-06-14 1930-01-07 Wilhelm Benselmann Warenausgabevorrichtung
US1782597A (en) * 1928-05-24 1930-11-25 Parker Pen Co Dispensing cabinet
GB1543561A (en) * 1976-05-05 1979-04-04 Mars Inc Vending machines
US4850511A (en) * 1987-04-17 1989-07-25 M&M/Mars Dispensing rack
WO2000010433A1 (fr) 1998-08-19 2000-03-02 The Gillette Company Distributeurs de produits

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US9351615B2 (en) 2013-07-23 2016-05-31 S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. Toilet caddy assembly and method of forming a toilet caddy assembly
US10213072B2 (en) 2013-07-23 2019-02-26 S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. Method of forming a toilet caddy assembly

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ES2215687T3 (es) 2004-10-16
EP1202655A1 (fr) 2002-05-08
DE60008542D1 (de) 2004-04-01
EP1202655B1 (fr) 2004-02-25
AU6003600A (en) 2001-02-19
GB9917868D0 (en) 1999-09-29

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