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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4334619 | Apparatus for processing paper sheets An apparatus for processing paper sheets, in which one lot of paper sheets are set in a supplying section and supplied one after another to a detecting section for sorting these paper sheets into fit paper sheets and unfit paper sheets. The unfit paper sh... | 06/15/1982 |
| 4326636 | Apparatus for processing sheets There is provided an apparatus for processing sheets. The apparatus comprises a feeding zone, a discriminating zone, a sorting zone and a stacking zone. The feeding zone includes rollers and guides for taking out sheets one at a time from a group of sheet... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4325494 | Single-bill currency dispenser A single-bill currency dispenser incorporates a self-contained cartridge for storing a quantity of bills of a single denomination, and dispensing the bills singly in response to electrical control signals. The bills are loaded into the cartridge in a vert... | 04/20/1982 |
| 4318484 | Device for sorting out individual articles which differ from the main quantity in a consecutive feedout A device for sorting out individual articles which differ from the main quantity in a consecutive feedout. Articles to be conveyed in response to specific conditions, for example monetary bills which are to be discharged individually and which are to face... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4313087 | Apparatus for detecting electrically conductive coatings on documents This apparatus tests the genuineness of a document carrying anticounterfeit protection in the form of a usually invisible, electrically conductive coating on at least part of a surface. The apparatus may be arranged to respond to the presence of a coating... | 01/26/1982 |
| 4288781 | Currency discriminator A currency discriminator for determining the denomination of a bank note or the like is disclosed. It includes a source of light directed at the note to be identified. A 2 mm×80 mm stripe is illuminated and the reflected light from the illuminated area i... | 09/08/1981 |
| 4283708 | Paper currency acceptor Apparatus for accepting a U.S. bill or other paper currency having a portrait area printed with magnetic ink with spaced parallel lines in the background portions thereof. A pair of zones of predetermined length normally containing said portions and dispo... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4255652 | High speed electrically responsive indicia detecting apparatus and method Apparatus for detecting and providing a signal from detection indicia that is applied to a substrate such as a controlled document for the purpose of determining the character of the document, the substrate comprising individual substrate members or an el... | 03/10/1981 |
| 4255057 | Method for determining quality of U.S. currency An apparatus for detecting quality of currency or the like. Signals representative of the transmissivity and reflectivity of a bill are subtracted from a signal representative of unity. The resulting signal, which is representative of absorptivity of ligh... | 03/10/1981 |
| 4251010 | Certificate dispenser A dispenser for bank notes and currency having a plurality of storage receptacles for bank notes and currencies of different denominations, each with a permanently assigned take-up device. A central conveyor line common to all of the storage receptacles l... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4236639 | Method of automatically sorting thin sheet articles A method and apparatus for automatically sorting packets of thin sheet articles such as securities, bank notes and the like which are bound in a stack by a band. A series of modular units are provided in which the band and the stack are mechanically separ... | 12/02/1980 |
| 4189235 | Test device for dynamically measuring the degree of dirt accumulation on bank-notes A device for dynamically measuring the degree of dirt accumulation on bank-notes in which certain areas of the bank-note are illuminated and examined by means of a receiving unit. The light from a succession of adjacent elemental areas of a bank-note so i... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4187463 | Counterfeit detector for paper currency A detector apparatus for counterfeit paper currency comprising a clamp and torsion pendulum assembly for holding a note to be tested, a moveable magnetic field source mounted so that it can be brought into contact with the note and then withdrawn, and ind... | 02/05/1980 |
| 4179031 | Document dispensing system A document dispensing system for dispensing documents or bills from a source to a customer access receptacle or a reject bin depending upon certain characteristics of the bills or the manner in which they are fed. Sensors which are positioned along a disp... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4179685 | Automatic currency identification system A method and apparatus for automatically identifying paper currency, stocks, stamps, and the like, by optically examining and viewing regions on the currency. The graphic pattern scanned is stored as signal information and then compared with signals repre... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4166030 | Apparatus for handling sheets of paper A sheet handling apparatus for documents requiring secure handling, such as banknotes. The documents are fed one at a time along a main flow-line in which they are sensed to determine whether they are in a fit condition or in an unfit condition. If unfit,... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4131879 | Method and apparatus for determining the relative positions of corresponding points or zones of a sample and an orginal A method and apparatus for comparing a sample of printed material, such as a bank note, with a standard original print by scanning the sample and the original to provide reflectance values of text in corresponding zones in a preselected group of zones of ... | 12/26/1978 |
| 4096991 | Note discriminating apparatus A note discriminating apparatus includes first and second detectors for detecting the characteristics of a note, a reference level generating section for generating a reference level signal by utilizing the output of the first detector, and a level detect... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4068385 | Apparatus for measuring thickness differences in record carriers, such as bank notes and the like The apparatus comprises a roll, having an elastic surface, mounted for rotation about a fixed axis with the elastic surface arranged to engage one surface of a record carrier. A piezoelectric transducer is mounted perpendicular to the axis of the roll and... | 01/17/1978 |
| 4056731 | Reticle protective structure and radiation sensitive validation apparatus The reticle of a paper currency validating device of the type which uses a radiation sensing system is protected by the provision of a thin sapphire disc covering the reticle.... | 11/01/1977 |
| 4041456 | Method for verifying the denomination of currency A bill to be verified is scanned lengthwise by a two track optical sensor. For each bill the resulting analog signals are divided into eight segments or windows each segment producing a binary coded pattern produced by delta modulation. This is compared t... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4034838 | Apparatus for handling papers and tissues A device is provided for examining paper money or the like while it is being transported by a delivery device. Comprising a storage device for storing therein paper money discriminated by a discriminating device. A temporary reservoir isdisposed between t... | 07/12/1977 |
| 4025420 | Thin-sheet-sorting apparatus A thin sheet-sorting apparatus, wherein straps fastening bundles of, for example, one hundred bank notes are taken off and put in a sorting card-issuing device, which in turn impresses prescribed data associated with the bundles of bank notes on the strap... | 05/24/1977 |
| 4011931 | Bill escrow and storage apparatus for vending machine Apparatus for handling paper money in a vending or money changing machine, in which a validator unit either accepts or rejects an inserted bill. Each accepted bill is moved a short distance by a conveyor to a handling station, where a ram pushes the bill ... | 03/15/1977 |
| 3976199 | Portable currency detector A portable battery-powered device for verifying genuine currency based on the characteristic of United States and certain foreign currencies that some portion of the bill is printed with ink having magnetic properties. The device employs a tuned pickup he... | 08/24/1976 |
| 3976198 | Method and apparatus for sorting currency A method of currency examination is provided by transporting a bill through an examination station, projecting a beam of light at the bill as the bill is transported through the station, sensing and integrating light transmissivity of the bill over a prin... | 08/24/1976 |
| 3966047 | Paper currency acceptor A paper currency acceptor which performs a first magnetic test on a first predetermined area of a bill corresponding to an area of a genuine bill printed with magnetic ink to produce a credit signal in response to a genuine bill and to reject a spurious b... | 06/29/1976 |
| 3938663 | Circuit for sorting currency The system includes a counter for entering the quantity of a block of currency, commonly referred to as a strap, in terms of the number of bills contained within the strap. A detection circuit detects various entry conditions and determines quality and fi... | 02/17/1976 |
| 3932272 | Scan system The apparatus relates to an electronic verification and control system for obtaining an input count of entered bills and an analysis for various entry conditions for the bills and their state of fitness, and further to an automatic separator and inserter ... | 01/13/1976 |
| 3930581 | Sheet feeding mechanisms A sheet feeding mechanism is described in which the sheets in a batch of sheets are sorted into different output stackers. The sheet feeding mechanism includes a buffer store for receiving and temporarily holding a batch of sheets while a predetermined ba... | 01/06/1976 |
| 3930582 | System for testing paper money and the like To test the genuineness and/or condition of dollar bills or other substantially identical papers, one or more thickness gauges are positioned in the path of these papers and determine the deviations, if any, of the thickness of a passing specimen from a p... | 01/06/1976 |
