Arrangement for dispensing propagation pots, etc.

Claim 1

In an apparatus for dispensing open-topped containers or pots from plural stacks of nested pots, each pot having an outwardly extending rim, the stacks being arranged in a magazine in plural longitudinal rows and plural transverse rows, and the pots being dispensed from the stacks into a tray adapted to be positioned beneath the magazine, said apparatus being of the type including a housing, the magazine adapted to be installed in an upper portion of said housing, a drawer mounted in said housing for generally horizontal reciprocal movement in opposite directions parallel to said longitudinal rows, said drawer including a plurality of parallel support strips extending in said directions, each said support strip having extending therefrom support parts for supporting rims of lowermost pots of the stacks and separating parts for supporting rims of lowermost pots of the stacks and for separating the lowermost pots of the stacks upon movement of said drawer, said support parts having upper edges at a level below the level of upper edges of said separating parts, said support parts and separating parts of each said support strip being displaced with respect to each other in said directions, the improvement wherein: each said separating part has a pointed end facing a longitudinally adjacent said support part; and each said support part has a pointed end formed by a downwardly inclined edge extending in an overlapping manner beneath said pointed end of said separating part.