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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7287668 | Soap holding and dispersing assembly A soap holding and dispersing assembly includes a housing that has a bottom wall, a top wall and a peripheral wall that extends between and is attached to the top and bottom walls. The peripheral wall includes a front wall, a back wall, a first side wall and a secon... | 10/30/2007 |
| 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 |
| 6293424 | Dispenser for pull tab tickets and other articles and a pull tab ticket and article therefor A device for dispensing pull tab tickets, lottery tickets and other articles and the articles to be dispensed thereby are set forth. The device includes one or more carousels removably retaining magazines containing tickets to be dispensed. The carousels ... | 09/25/2001 |
| 5709315 | Method and apparatus for removing newspapers and similar folded sheet units from a stack Folded sheet units, such as newspapers and magazines are successively removed from a stack of such sheet units by inserting at least one sheet engaging member such as a pin in the fold between adjacent sheet layers of the sheet unit to be removed. The pin... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5178299 | Newspaper vending machine A newspaper vending machine that is used for dispensing a single newspaper copy out of a stack stored in an enclosed magazine in response to a fixed payment by a user. The machine consists of a secure housing containing a storage compartment or magazine, ... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5012952 | Lid and cup dispenser having an elongated yieldable tension element secured by a transversely adjustable anchoring block disposed astride the dispensing opening A group of flanged lids or cups of substantially identical construction and arranged in nested relation in a container are dispensed from an open end of the container by an elongated yieldable tension element disposed astride the open end of the container... | 05/07/1991 |
| 4949526 | Lid dispenser for an automated drinkmaker system An automatic lid dispensing and applicator arrangement for an automated drinkmaker machine. The lidding arrangement automatically separates lids from a stack of lids and applies the separated lids onto cups. A large supply of lids is maintained in a rotat... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4770322 | Roll stamp dispenser A stamp dispensing arrangement for dispensing stamps, such as postage stamps, one at a time from a roll of such stamps. The dispensing arrangement has a unitary body comprised of a base and a cover hingedly interconnected for relative pivotal movement the... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4656808 | Roof shingle laying machine A roof shingle laying machine having a drum mounted for rotation in a frame and adapted to be manually rolled transversly across a slooped roof for laying and securing shingles in row fashion atop the roof. The shingles are automatically placed in proper ... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4566581 | Coin operated dispensers for dispensing horizontally disposed articles such as newspapers from the upper end of a stack A coin operated vending machine is provided for delivering the uppermost of a stack of generally horizontally disposed article such as newspapers, out a delivery opening or vending slot. The machine employs an upright pedestal with a top wall for supporti... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4501379 | Newspaper dispensing apparatus Dispensing apparatus for individually dispensing folded newspapers, magazines, or like articles from a stack of articles, comprises a reciprocal dispensing assembly having movable fingers mounted thereon for engaging within a fold of the article to pull t... | 02/26/1985 |
| 4438868 | Envelope vending machine An envelope vending machine is shown for dispensing single envelopes. The machine includes a housing having a closed top, a closed bottom, and sidewalls therebetween, and an envelope dispensing slot in one of the sidewalls. A slotted partition having uppe... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4257532 | Rotary closure dispenser A closure dispensing apparatus for dispensing closures one at a time from a stacked array. A crank mechanism pivoted at its center for rotation with a plurality of handles in radial alignment with the pivot point. The crank mechanism is positioned beneath... | 03/24/1981 |
| 4073405 | Gift-dispensing device A gift dispensing device is provided for dispensing gifts to children. The device may be represented as a Santa Claus and exhibited upon a fabric support. The device includes a mounting strip with a plurality of apertures located at the top of the support... | 02/14/1978 |
| 4011965 | Envelope-vending machine A coin-controlled manually operated envelope-vending machine having a vertical supply compartment whereby the lowermost envelope of the supply is available to a yieldable vending member having a horizontal reciprocal movement for engagement with a portion... | 03/15/1977 |
| 4010868 | Apparatus for the automatic issuance and return of keys A plurality of keys are movably suspended on a support in successive orientation one behind the other. The leading key engages a dispensing device which normally prevents the discharge of the keys from the support but which is actuable on command to selec... | 03/08/1977 |
| 3960291 | Folded article dispensing machine A machine for dispensing a single newspaper, magazine or the like from the top of the stack which includes a novel horizontally movable stripper assembly which allows dispensing of a single folded article in both a horizontal travel from left to right and... | 06/01/1976 |
