Did You Know...
...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4558829 | Automatic coil winding machine An automatic coil winding machine with a multiplicity of winding stations at which supply coil magazines with respective rotary feeders are provided, and with a loading device for loading the magazines with supply coils which are moved by transporting mea... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4546901 | Apparatus for dispensing medication Medication dispensing apparatus for hospital and nursing home use that can satisfy patient prescription requirements on a large scale. The apparatus includes a carriage for dispensing pills or other medication required by the prescription of a particular ... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4503993 | Apparatus for feeding loose fasteners to a plurality of fastening machines An apparatus for feeding loose fasteners, such as nails or screws, from the output guideway of a sorter to a plurality of fastening machines. A plurality of holding guideways for holding a quantity of fasteners to be sequentially fed to each fastening mac... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4480651 | Coin feeding apparatus for a coin disposing machine In a coin disposing apparatus, a mechanism is disclosed for aligning a random supply of coins preparatory to further processing. Included is a rotary disc for receiving thereon the coins to be processed from an overhead belt conveyor and for centrifugally... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4391412 | Apparatus for limiting filling height of containers Apparatus for limiting the filling height of containers for receiving shredded or minced paper film or the like from cutting or shredding machines, characterized by a switch for stopping the machine when the container is filled to a predetermined height, ... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4372463 | Apparatus and method for feeding thin parts An apparatus is made of a tube for containing a number of thin parts in a stack arrangement, having a loading end and a dispensing end, a device for feeding parts to the separating device, from the loading end to the dispensing end of the tube, and a devi... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4342404 | Automatic can end transfer device A can end conveying device for conveying ends from a first press to a second press. The conveyor has an input end and a divertor downstream therefrom. Ends are conveyed along a first track to a stacking station which feeds the ends through a first conduit... | 08/03/1982 |
| 4247019 | Article handling system with dispenser In a system for dispensing weighed or counted articles, articles are fed from a supply hopper by a vibratory conveyor to maintain a controlled level of articles in a bowl-shaped feeder hopper. In a weigher embodiment, articles are initially discharged fro... | 01/27/1981 |
| 4171051 | Apparatus for serially transporting, testing and orienting cylindrical components A multi-section feeder-serializer subsystem uses blocking gates controlled by sensors responsive to the quantity of components in the various sections to produce a single-file progression of components from a bulk supply of components. A slotted track con... | 10/16/1979 |
| 4149545 | Cigarette making and packing system Two cigarette making machines are interconnected to a single cigarette packing machine via a transfer system which uses individual conveyors to convey the cigarettes from each making machine to a single chute leading to the packing machine. The flow of ci... | 04/17/1979 |
| 4092990 | Vibratory coin feeder An apparatus for feeding coins by vibration. An electromagnet is mounted upon a frame being operable to cyclically attract and repel an armature fixedly mounted to and beneath a horizontally extending platform supported above the frame by a plurality of s... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4057172 | Apparatus for dispensing golf balls An apparatus for dispensing a predetermined number of golf balls has a hopper for storing golf balls, a receptacle for retaining the predetermined number of golf balls in position for dispensing, and a structure for guiding and conveying the golf balls fr... | 11/08/1977 |
| 3998237 | Coin sorter A coin sorter is disclosed in which coins deposited on a horizontal rotating disc are directed in single file to the circumference of the disc where the coins are removed, by denomination, by means of plows which lift one side of the coin so that the coin... | 12/21/1976 |
| 3979018 | Apparatus for separating bundled bars The invention relates to an apparatus for separating bundled bars, which comprises a magazine for containing the bars in bundles cooperating with means which reduce its width and thus cause the overflow of a certain number of bars from one of its longitud... | 09/07/1976 |
| 3952882 | Device for delivering pads to a bundling machine A device for delivering pads to a machine for bundling flat articles. The device includes a first pad hopper, a first conveyor which draws pads from the first pad hopper, a second pad hopper receiving pads from the first conveyor, and a second conveyor wh... | 04/27/1976 |
| 3948454 | Dispenser for multiple rolls of sheet material Disclosed is an apparatus for dispensing sheet material such as bathroom tissue from a roll. The apparatus includes a cabinet having a dispensing zone from where the sheet material may be removed first from a primary roll and later from a reserve roll. Th... | 04/06/1976 |
| 3948279 | Circuitry for coin-handling system A circuit responds to a level-sensing device, adjacent a coin-holding tube, to cause an electric motor to rotate a coin-receiving drum until sufficient coins issue from that coin-receiving drum to fill that coin-holding tube. Ordinarily, coins will issue ... | 04/06/1976 |
| 3940014 | Feeding method and apparatus for containers The flow of containers along a first conveyor providing a supply of unfilled containers to a filling machine is interrupted, with containers from the first conveyor being transferred to a second conveyor which, in turn, supplies containers to a filling ma... | 02/24/1976 |
