US Patent 7461763 Dispenser for solid flowable bulk material

A dispenser for solid flowable material such as breakfast cereal having a storage hopper positioned above a rotatable auger dispenser. The storage hopper being provided with off-set baffles to prevent bridging of the flowable material in the hopper and to support the flowable material to reduce the weight of the flowable material resting on the auger. One of the off-set baffles extending to the top center of the auger such that the flowable material flows directly downward on only one side of the auger. Still another baffle in the hopper extends downwardly and inwardly from discharge end of the auger to prevent discharge of the flowable material without rotation of the auger.