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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8136696 | Lottery ticket machine able to prevent tickets from being illegally drawn out A lottery ticket machine able to prevent tickets from being illegally drawn out includes a machine base provided with a driving device, two press rollers with pressed streaks on the wheel surface and a control device. One of the two press rollers is provided with a ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 7922038 | Lottery ticket machine having function of preventing tickets from being illegally drawn out A lottery ticket machine having function of preventing tickets from being illegally drawn out includes a machine base provided thereon with a driving device, two press rollers and a control device. One of the two press rollers is disposed with a shaft extending out ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7428978 | Sheet material dispenser A dispenser and system for dispensing sheet material is provided. The dispenser includes a housing including a container and a lid. The container and lid cooperate to provide an inner surface formed to include an internal compartment configured to hold sheet materia... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7392918 | Method and device for pill dispensing A pill dispenser (10) and a related method of pill dispensing including a container (12) having a holder (14), a gate (16), a controller (18) a sensor (20) and a neutralizing device (22). The dispenser (10) rel... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7334700 | Medicine supplying apparatus There is disclosed a medicine supplying apparatus which can effectively eliminate medicine clogging in a nozzle for releasing a medicine into a package paper or the like. The medicine supplying apparatus supplies the medicine discharged from a tablet case which cont... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7284678 | Capsule dispensing apparatus with refrigeration A capsule dispensing apparatus includes an elongate tube for containing a plurality of capsules and a housing remote from the elongate tube. The elongate tube may be releasably coupled to the housing, and a dispensing arm connected to the housing may control the rel... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7275483 | Jam resistant printer bezel An anti-jam bezel is provided for dispensing a flexible substrate from an output slot. A guideway is provided for receiving the flexible substrate from a transport and guiding the flexible substrate into the output slot. The guideway may extend from the output slot ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7273211 | Paper-sheet handling apparatus A paper-sheet handling apparatus includes a cassette that stores a paper sheet; a cassette compartment that stores a plurality of the cassettes; a feeding mechanism that feeds out the paper sheet stored in the cassette; a conveying mechanism that conveys the paper s... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7226271 | Apparatus and method for feeding plates The present invention is directed to a plate feeder and a method of supplying plates. The plate feeder supplies plates on an as-needed basis and includes a holding structure for holding a plate. A proximity sensor detects whether a plate is held by the holding struc... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7186176 | Coin dispensing apparatus with safe housing The first purpose of this present invention is to provide a coin dispensing safe assembly with a safe system which can prevent coins being stolen. The second purpose of this invention is to provide a coin dispensing safe assembly with a safe system which can prevent... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7147129 | Personal effects dispenser A dispenser dispenses personal effects such as, panty liners, condoms, wet wipes, tampons, etc., for use by occupants of a particular establishment (home, prison, office, hospital etc.). The personal effects dispenser has a first housing that holds the tampons and t... | 12/12/2006 |
| 6994229 | Device for dispensing laminar items A device for dispensing labels of value comprises a lockable housing for containing a roll of transport medium having a plurality of labels releasably adhered thereto successively along its length. The housing has a slot through which the transport medium can be dis... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6932222 | Billiard ball rack A rack for storing billiard balls including a base having a first engagement surface. The rack also includes an elongated billiard ball holder defining an elongated central space configured to support a plurality of billiard balls in contact with one another in a ro... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6926166 | Device for combining candy dispensers and health and beauty aid dispensers A product combining individual novelty candy dispensers and health and beauty dispensers into a single device. In one embodiment a lip balm dispenser is combined with a breath spray dispenser into a single product. In another embodiment, a lip embodiment a lip balm ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6926167 | Carton dispensing machine A vending machine for large flat objects such as collapsed boxes or garment containers. A cabinet is provided containing a plurality of flat objects in an upright orientation. A control box attached to the cabinet receives bills or coins as payment for an object con... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6918509 | Toy and pogo dispenser A dispenser for dispensing candy or other small objects, the dispenser having a rotatable hopper, having a hopper cavity therein, a tubular structure, having a storage portion for storing objects above the rotating hopper, a storage portion opening, a base portion, ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6763971 | Candy dispenser A candy dispenser transfers candy packaged in a loading container through a valve into a dispensation magazine when the dispenser is in a first orientation. The candies can subsequently be dispensed from the magazine when the dispenser is inverted. A manually-operat... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6575454 | High capacity document sheet processor A high capacity document sheet processor combines significant speed and efficiency enhancing improvements in existing approaches to stack feeding particularly in the stack loading, feeding and singulating functions with novel operational arrangements adap... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6505754 | Apparatus for automated key retrieval and deposit An apparatus for automated key retrieval and deposit includes a housing and a key storage rack assembly positioned within the housing. The automated key retrieval and deposit apparatus also includes a key holder for holding a key to be retrieved positione... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6409045 | Vending machine for bottles A vending machine for vending a plurality of bottles each of which are supported in an upright position only at a top portion of each of the bottles include a planar dispensing rack having a plurality of elongated slots therein for storing and dispensing ... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6220480 | Dispenser A pill dispenser for dispensing pills is provided that has a container for holding the pills to be dispensed. The container is closed at one end and open at the opposite end. The container is slidably received in a sleeve. The dispenser has an outlet thro... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6053358 | Lottery machine preventing lotteries from pulling out illegally A lottery machine preventing lotteries from drawing out illegally mainly includes a base, a lottery moving device, a face plate and a coil spring. A micro switch is provided on one of two parallel side plates of the base, and held in ON condition by a sto... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6050447 | Bulk vending machine system with mechanically operated electrically actuated locking and control function An electronically actuated and monitorable bulk vending machine assembly for electronically actuated vending from a select one of a plurality of rack mounted of bulk vending including at least one electrically lockable, crank actuated vending machine link... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5996840 | Newspaper and magazine dispensing machine A vending machine suitable for use for vending newspapers and the like, has an enclosure in which there is a magazine for retaining a stack of newspapers, and near the magazine is a chute at the lower end of which is a tray accessible to a customer seekin... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5954228 | Safety dispenser A safety dispenser providing a container portion having a peripheral side wall defining a cavity therein, an open upper end, a bottom wall and a channel wall disposed between the upper end and the bottom wall, the channel wall extending across the cavity ... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5954227 | Method and apparatus for individually dispensing stored articles A vending apparatus for individually vending an article from a set of articles and for vending a display article after the set of articles has been depleted. The apparatus includes a rack for vertical storage of a stack of newspapers, and a bracket for po... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5873481 | Display and dispensing device with security door A hinged access display and dispensing device for lottery-type tickets includes a housing of box-like configuration with a main door that is pivotally attached to the housing. A lock having a swing arm is secured to the main door. A slot is provided in th... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5791511 | Dispensing machine for printed publication The invention relates to vending machines for dispensing of a single copy of a printed publication one-at-a-time. The vending machine is self contained, is provided with a power source, a driving motor and a control unit for operation of the vending machi... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5782377 | Article dispensing and positioning device An article dispensing and positioning device is disclosed in which a plurality of rectangular articles such as dominos or the like are placed on a flat surface in a plurality of parallel rows and in evenly spaced relationship with each other in each row. ... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5647507 | Apparatus for dispensing tickets, cards and the like from a stack An apparatus for dispensing articles such as tickets and cards includes a cabinet and a plurality of article dispensing assemblies inside the cabinet. Each article dispensing assembly includes a base and a frame for enclosing the articles to be dispensed ... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5630525 | Dispenser for consecutive dispensing of tablets A dispenser for consecutive dispensing of tablets in a fixed order comprising a cylindrical body defining along its periphery a number of juxtaposed vertical chutes each accommodating a number of tablets piled on edge radially oriented in the body, a cup ... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5555497 | Charitable contribution centralization system and apparatus A multiplicity of charitable collection stations are provided with selectors for choosing the charity to which a contribution is destined, a change maker for issuing change if desired, a display for displaying information with respect to premiums availabl... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5431300 | Single vend device for a newspaper vending machine The application discloses a device (10) to retrofit into the cabinet (11) of newspaper vending machine racks to prevent the removal of more than one copy of the newspaper for each vend or door opening of the cabinet (11). The single vend device (10) consi... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5417264 | Dowel transfer station in dowel driving devices A dowel transfer station in a dowel driving device which includes a dowel separating and conveying unit and a manually operated driving gun to which dowels are supplied through a hose line. The dowel transfer station is arranged between the dowel separati... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5368190 | Apparatus for vending work objects An apparatus for vending work objects having a main frame; a vend mechanism; a subframe, composed of a plurality of modules defining at least one work object storage area, mounted on the main frame; a mount releasably mounting the vend mechanism in vendin... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5339985 | Coin operated dispensing machine A coin operated product dispensing machine including a housing with an enclosed main display compartment and an elongate slide plate extending therethrough and attached at one end to the housing with a biasing element, an opposite free end of the slide pl... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5269439 | Dispenser lock Unauthorized removal of packages from coin-operated vending apparatus is prevented by a gravity operated lock which prevents removal of the ejector from the column of packages in the dispenser. The lock can only be removed from the locking position by mov... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5195236 | Weight-inserting mechanism for brake disc rotor-balancing machine For machine used to balance disk brake rotors having radial walls defining tapered recesses by inserting tapered weights into selected recesses, a magazine holds a stack comprised of a controlled number of the weights and permits the weights to exit indiv... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5190185 | Medication transport and dispensing magazine The present device is a magazine (10) which includes housing defining a medication storage area. An access door (22) is provided in the housing to gain access to stock the storage area with unit dose medication containers (34). The housing defines an open... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5167345 | Dual dispenser A dual dispenser for dispensing a first type of article from first and second stacks of the first articles and a second type of article from a stack of the second articles. The dispenser includes a housing having first and second magazines for holding the... | 12/01/1992 |
