Did You Know...
...Chester Carlson was a patent agent who tired of having to make multiple copies of patent applications using the only duplication method available at the time: carbon paper. In 1959 he came up with a new copying system and took it to IBM for evaluation. The "experts" at IBM determined potential sales to be only 5,000 units because people wouldn't want to use a bulky machine when they had carbon paper. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, the company founded on the system is Xerox.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7273158 | Golf ball dispensing and retrieving system A golf ball dispensing and retrieving system for efficiently assisting a golfer in practicing putting. The golf ball dispensing and retrieving system includes an elongated tube having a lower opening, a clamp extending from a side of the tube for removably attaching... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7108153 | Apparatus, system, and method for a medication access control device A medication access control device having a high-strength, high-impact cover and base that allows manual advancing and actuated dispensing of tablets, capsules, or pills of virtually all sizes from a medication cartridge, having penetrable seals, through a dispensin... | 09/19/2006 |
| 6592116 | Apparatus for handling blanks, in particular revenue stamps for cigarette packs Apparatus for supplying and transferring blanks, in particular revenue stamps, to (cigarette) packs a supply of blanks being stored in at least one upright magazine shaft from which the blanks are removed individually on the underside. In order to increas... | 07/15/2003 |
| 5697520 | Mosaic tile maker An apparatus for automatically creating a simulated mosaic controllably discharges tile pieces onto plate material and secures the tile pieces in place such that the plates with the tile pieces am freestanding permitting the plates themselves to be an ord... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5551596 | Parts feeding apparatus for selectively feeding parts of different types A parts feeding apparatus includes a plurality of cassettes respectively holding therein rows of parts of different types and removably attached to a plurality of parts supply openings arranged at predetermined angular intervals along the peripheral edge ... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5545286 | Rotary magazine system for labeler A system for dependably supplying stacks of labels to a high speed labeling machine. The system includes four primary parts. A plurality of cartridges for carrying stacks of labels, each of the cartridges has a release mechanism at the lower end of the ca... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5503300 | Vending machine including refrigeration and oven compartments A vending machine includes a refrigeration compartment, an oven compartment, structure for transferring a food product from the refrigeration compartment to the oven compartment, and structure for transferring the food product from the oven compartment to... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5472114 | Turret magazine assembly A turret magazine assembly which provides a constant supply of articles in a packaging operation. The turret magazine assembly has a rotatable feeding assembly having a plurality of tube receiving structures. A plurality of removable tubes are provided to... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5253782 | Article dispensing apparatus An article dispensing apparatus which comprises a frame having a protective housing mounted thereon and a rotatable turret having a plurality of vertical channels circumferentially arranged about the axis of the turret, each channel holding a stack of art... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5207350 | System for loading semiconductor package tester An apparatus for loading devices into a semiconductor tester is disclosed. The tester has an input track for accepting devices. The apparatus includes a number of elongated tracks for holding a plurality of semiconductor devices. Each elongated track has ... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5172828 | Cup dispenser A cup dispenser for dispensing cups from a stack of nested cups each of which has a rim wherein the stack being dispensed is held up in dispensing position in a dispensing opening, the lowermost cup of the stack being released to drop down and the next cu... | 12/22/1992 |
| 5154315 | Lid loading and conveying assembly A lid loading and conveying assembly includes a carousel having an indexing plate with a plurality of pairs of tubes connected therearound for holding a plurality of stacks of lids therein; a rotatable support for rotationally supporting the carousel plat... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5044517 | Automatic vending machine having cup dispenser with auxiliary cup loading rack and control circuit therefor The invention is directed to a cup dispenser having an auxiliary cup loading rack for an automatic vending machine. A control circuit enables selective feeding of different drink cup types from said auxiliary loading rack. The disclosed invention is capab... | 09/03/1991 |
| 4867342 | Automatic carton feeding device for a liquid filling machine An automatic carton feeding device for a liquid filling machine according to the present invention comprises a carton supply basket assembly divided into an upper and lower basket. The upper basket, which follows the lower basket connected to the liquid f... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4805758 | Crossed turret cup feeder Apparatus for supplying rows of stacked frusto-conical cups to a feeding assembly of a cup printing apparatus includes a rotatable, hollow, crossed turret comprised of an outer turret section formed by four radially and equiangularly oriented connected tu... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4676397 | E-Z-T golf ball dispenser E-Z-T Golf Ball Dispenser is a device used by an individual on a practice tee or similar surface for the convenient placement of golf balls on a practice tee and the retrieval or pick-up of balls on and around a practice tee. The device allows for ease in... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4635816 | Vending machine delivering cups containing freshly made beverages A vending machine dispensing cups containing freshly made beverages comprises inter alia a cup dispenser delivering the cups one by one to a filling device. The cup dispenser includes a magazine for several succeeding rows of stacks of cups situated on a ... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4369089 | Apparatus for changing the label magazine boxes of labelling machines In a labelling machine including label pickup means, for delivering to the machine articles to be labelled and for removing from the machine labelled articles, at least two boxes for labels disposed alongside one another, one of said boxes being in active... | 01/18/1983 |
| 4142883 | Machine for working glass tubes and in particular for making containers from glass tubes The invention relates to a machine for working glass tubes, with several chucks circulating on a common axis and sweeping past several processing stations, there being mounted above each chuck a stepwise rotating magazine storing several glass tubes, each... | 03/06/1979 |
| 4027781 | Primer feed cartridge A primer container for automatically feeding primer caps into a hand operated tool for reloading spent shells and cartridges. The container comprises a substantially cylindrical body having a first cap fixedly attached to one end thereof and a second cap ... | 06/07/1977 |
| 3945409 | Device for feeding lengths of wire to a processing machine Device for feeding lengths of wire to a processing machine, particularly a lattice welding machine, by separating a bundle of wire into smaller portions, aligning the smaller portions, and removing individual wire lengths from the smaller portions for con... | 03/23/1976 |
