Cup dispenser having a plurality of simultaneously acting circumposed oscillating cup ejectors

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR DISPENSING FLANGED PAPER CUPS OR THE LIKE, ONE AT A TIME, FROM A VERTICAL STACK THEREOF COMPRISING: A HOLLOW CASING HAVING UPPER AND LOWER WALLS, AND SKIRTS, SAID UPPER AND LOWER WALLS BEING APERTURED ON A VERTICAL AXIS TO PASS SAID CUPS VERTICALLY THROUGH SAID CASING, SAID UPPER AND LOWER CASING WALLS BEING FORMED WITH A PLURALITY OF PAIRS OF VERTICALLY ALIGNED TUBULAR PORTIONS HAVING BEARING SEATS SPACED ABOUT AND CONCENTRIC WITH SAID VERTICAL AXIS, A PLURALITY OF PAIRS OF VERTICALLY ALIGNED TUBULAR PORDIRECTED SHAFT PORTIONS FOR ROTATABLY MOUNTING EACH CAM MEMBER IN AN ASSOCIATED PAIR OF SAID BEARING SEATS AND INTERMEDIATE CAM AND PINION GEARS, A RING GEAR POSITIONED IN SAID CASING BETWEEN SAID SKIRTS AND SAID PINION GEARS, SAID RING GEAR HAVING AN OUTER PERIPHERY SPACED A SUFFICIENT DISTANCE FROM SAID SKIRTS TO PREVENT BINDING CONTACT THEREBETWEEN IN THE EVENT OF DISTORTION OF SAID RING GEAR OR SKIRTS, AND A TOOTHED INNER PERIPHERY ENGAGING SAID GEARS TO ROTATE SAID CAM MEMBERS IN UNISON, SAID LOWER WALL BEING FORMED WITH RADIALLY SPACED BEARING SURFACE WEBS TO SLIDABLY SUPPORT SAID RING GEAR, SAID RING GEAR HAGVING AN OUTWARDLY PROJECTING HANDLE TO MOVE SAID RING GEAR IN ROTARY RECIPROCATORY MOVEMENT, SAID CASING OUTER WALL BEING SLOTTED TO ACCOMMODATE SAID PROJECTING HANDLE, AND STOP MEANS FOR LIMITING THE RECIPROCATORY MOVEMENT OF SAID RING GEAR, EACH OF SAID CAM PORTIONS OF SAID CAM MEMBERS HAVING A CAM SURFACE TO ENGAGE THE FLANGE OF THE LOWER CUP IN SAID STACK IN ROTATION OF SAID CAM MEMBERS TO DISCHARGE SAID CUP AND VERTICALLY SPACED SUPPORT SURFACES FOR SUPPORTING THE REMAINDER OF SAID CUP STACK DURING SAID CAM MEMBER ROTATION.