Patent ID: 6098840
Filing Date: 2000-08-08
Classification: B65H,G07F

Abstract:
A card-dispensing device comprising:a card-housing unit wherein a plurality of cards are stacked and housed, a slide, and a slide means for moving the slide forward and backward,wherein the slide means, when moving the slide forward, modifies an attitude of the slide from a horizontal attitude in which the slide is parallel with a bottommost card of the plurality of cards stacked and housed within the card-housing unit, so that the slide contacts the bottommost card and ejects the bottommost card, to an inclined attitude in which the slide is separated from the cards by rotating through a prescribed angle; and the slide means, when moving the slide backward, returns the slide to the horizontal attitude in which said slide is parallel with the cards, andthe slide means including structural means for forcibly modifying the attitude from the horizontal attitude to the inclined attitude during the forward run of the slide and forcibly regaining the horizontal attitude during the backward run of the slide.