Why the Pez Dispenser?
Well mostly because I thought it would be fun. I'm sure many of you used these as a kid, and yes, they still exist today, just with new characters on top now. Inside the dispenser is 5 parts, 12 pieces of candy and some clever engineering.
The main question: how does the candy continually push out and reload? Let's get into it.
Let's Walk Through the Steps of Using the Pez Dispenser
In case you don't remember how it works from your childhood…
Let's open up the Pez Dispenser
Let's see what parts have been hiding inside the dispenser all these years
Examining the Critical Parts
It's a relatively simple assembly, but let's focus on a few parts to better understand them
Okay, time to walk through the mechanism
Let's dispense a piece of candy, step by step, to understand how the dispenser mechanism works.
