Patent ID: 7175045

Claim:
An article-dispensing machine comprising: a main body; one or more tracks for holding articles; one or more baffle plates each located on a side of a track and including at least one opening to the corresponding track; one or more selection elements each for selecting an article held in a corresponding track; and one or more dispenser-controlling assemblies each corresponding to a track and fixed on a corresponding baffle, each dispenser-controlling assembly including a first movable arm located before all articles on the corresponding track, a first pivoted support rotatablely connecting the first movable arm to the baffle plate, and a first restore elastic element disposed against the first movable arm and the baffle plate, wherein a free end of the first movable arm is extendable into a space of the corresponding track through one of the at least one opening of the baffle plate, wherein when the corresponding selection element is in a non-operation position, the first movable arm extends sufficiently into the corresponding track to prevent any article behind it on the corresponding track from moving downwards by gravity, and when the corresponding selection element is in an operation position, the first movable arm withdraws from the corresponding track.