US 11,673,752 B2
Dispenser vane
Vipin Jain, Saratoga, CA (US); Venkateswaran Ayalur, Cupertino, CA (US); Vijayasimha Doddabalapur, Foster City, CA (US); Kevin Andrew Marshall, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Jessica Pei-Sheng Murphy, San Mateo, CA (US)
Assigned to 6D Bytes Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed by 6D Bytes Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/478,744.
Application 17/478,744 is a continuation of application No. 16/782,981, filed on Feb. 5, 2020, granted, now 11,142,412.
Application 16/782,981 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/051,052, filed on Jul. 31, 2018, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/652,740, filed on Apr. 4, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0017313 A1, Jan. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. B65G 65/48 (2006.01); B65G 65/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65G 65/4881 (2013.01) [B65G 65/005 (2013.01); B65G 2201/0211 (2013.01); B65G 2812/0645 (2013.01); B65G 2814/0302 (2013.01); B65G 2814/0325 (2013.01); B65G 2814/0344 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vane for a dispenser comprising:
a flexible curved outer surface;
a plurality of flexible teeth arranged radially along a length of the flexible curved outer surface,
wherein the flexible curved outer surface and the plurality of flexible teeth are radially moveable;
an inner surface to receive a shaft; and
a plurality of flexible radial segments between the flexible curved outer surface and the inner surface configured to maintain a back pressure when the flexible curved outer surface moves radially inward.