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Pillow with retractable umbrella

A pillow assembly having a supporting assembly and a retractable umbrella assembly that is easily transportable and allows a user to support his/her head while covering their face from sunlight.

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Class 221/260 - Deformable discharging element


Subclass of Class 221 - Article dispensing
Definition: Devices in which the discharge assistant or the actuator
No. of patents: 31
Last issue date: 04/22/2008


NumberTitleIssue Date
7360669Dispenser for spherical articles
Spherical articles such as breath mints are released one at a time from a container by depressing a button, which simultaneously opens a first flow regulator and closes a second flow regulator in series with the first. When the button is released, the first flow reg...
04/22/2008
7273158Golf 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
7252183Article of manufacture with quick access feature
An article of manufacture with a quick access feature designed to assist users for rapidly accessing an object in an enclosed container. The access feature may be attached to a pouch, a bag, a pocket or another item designed to carry objects, including apparel that ...
08/07/2007
7232041Battery dispenser and refill
A battery dispenser and a refill for a battery dispenser are provided. In one embodiment the battery dispenser includes a housing that has an opening, a landing, and a push element capable of advancing batteries from inside the housing to the landing external to the...
06/19/2007
7204406Carton with outwardly-extending access panel
Multi-unit product cartons for store racks, shelves, walls, columns, and floors, in particular, cartons with advantageous product visibility and accessibility via a radially-openable access panel disposed on at least one of the carton sides. The access panel has at ...
04/17/2007
7147551Apparatus for detecting a coin in a coin tube of a money changer for an automatic coin machine
A money changer for automatic coin machines, comprising a casing in which a plurality of serially arranged tubes are mounted to store coins in a column shape, light barriers associated to the tubes at least in the upper and lower regions with each light barrier havi...
12/12/2006
7147103Cigarette pack with cigarette elevation capability
A lift mechanism for use with a “hard pack” of cigarettes wherein the “hard pack” of cigarettes consists of a housing having four side walls and a bottom wall, a prismatic lid hingeably secured to one of the upper ends of the side walls and a quantity of cig...
12/12/2006
7124912Feeder tube for filling containers with pills
A pill delivery and packing apparatus having a feeder tube for delivering pills is provided. The feeder tube has a helical delivery chute that extends between an inlet side and an exit side of the tube. The delivery chute has a helical inner contour and a rectangula...
10/24/2006
7073685Dispenser of objects
The invention concerns a dispenser of objects comprising a body forming a reservoir (2) for storing objects to be dispensed (8), an outlet passage (22) for said objects, arranged at one end of the body (2), and returned translation means ...
07/11/2006
7066350Feeder tube for filling containers with pills
A pill delivery and packing apparatus having a feeder tube for delivering pills is provided. The feeder tube has a helical delivery chute that extends between an inlet side and an exit side of the tube. The delivery chute has a helical inner contour and a rectangula...
06/27/2006
7063234Meter strip dispenser assembly
The present invention is directed to diagnostic kits that house and deliver a carrier for an analyte, such as a test strip carrying an blood glucose analyte used by persons afflicted with diabetes in order to determine their blood glucose levels. ...
06/20/2006
7007821Method of delivering pills through a feeder tube
A pill delivery and packing apparatus having a feeder tube for delivering pills is provided. The feeder tube has a helical delivery chute that extends between an inlet side and an exit side of the tube. The delivery chute has a helical inner contour and a rectangula...
03/07/2006
6948600Carrier bag fetching structure
A fetching structure for a carrier bag essentially comprised of a support board fixed to the inner edge of the opening of the bag; one fixation band being each laterally provided on the surface of the supporting board; a penetration section not connected to the supp...
09/27/2005
6889869Tablet dispenser
The disclosure relates to a tablet dispenser comprising an elongate container (10) for tablets (12) and a dispensing device for discharging tablets out of the container (10). The dispensing device includes an operating unit (11) for manua...
05/10/2005
6250499Tam box
A small portable apparatus to dispense various sized stored articles, such as tampons, from a container. The container's hollow interior mounts a rotatable flexible deformable roller which can both obstruct the movement of the contained articles against t...
06/26/2001
5238145Flexible ejector mechanism for a cartridge dispenser in an automated order system
A flexible belt ejector mechanism for dispensing products from a product cartridge onto a conveyor in an automated order system (AOS). The flexible belt is disposed in an L-shaped guide track that is mounted adjacent to the cartridge with the ejector and ...
08/24/1993
5056683Sling style gum dispenser
A cardboard stick gum dispenser comprises a rectangular-shaped container which has a slot formed on the lower part of its front panel. A paper sling extends from the upper part of the container's rear panel through the inside of the container to the slot....
10/15/1991
4969582Apparatus for feeding an elongated fastener to a fastening tool, especially for feeding a stud in a stud welder
To provide an apparatus for feeding an elongated fastener to a fastening tool, in which the fasteners are fed individually through a first passage and are forced into a holder by a plunger guided in a second additional passage and in which comparatively s...
11/13/1990
4949868Universal packaging system for electrical components and the like
A universal packaging system for objects such as electrical components, connectors, semiconductors, chips, etc. includes an elongated, hollow, tubular package formed of resiliently deformable material for containing a plurality of said objects, each objec...
08/21/1990
4792057Method and apparatus for dispensing flat discs
An apparatus for dispensing single ones of flat chips or discs from a multi-chip receptacle, and/or depositing them onto a surface at selected locations, is disclosed, as may be desireable, for example, when playing a game of bingo. In one preferred embod...
12/20/1988
4759435Metering and singulating apparatus for integrated circuits
An apparatus for metering and singulating electronic devices such as integrated circuits that are arrayed initially in a column. A support member positioned over one end of the column has a plurality of spaced apart coil springs that extend radially to en...
07/26/1988
4664310Blank for parallelepipedal boxes or box elements
A blank for forming a parallelepipedal box or a parallelepipedal box element is constructed with a removal strip in such a manner that parallel tear lines extend through three connected wall sections of the blank. The tear lines end in one wall section at...
05/12/1987
4541547Token or card dispenser
A chip, token, coin or card dispenser includes an upright storage tube for a stack of tokens of predetermined shape and is mounted upon a base plate, with the lower end of the tube spaced above a depressed token platform in the base plate defining a token...
09/17/1985
4533066Seed planter, planter assembly and method of picking up and discharging single seeds
A seed planter comprises a seed transport member having a porous surface and an air jet directed normally to this surface. The porous surface is moved past a plurality of seeds, whereupon the air jet retains a single seed on the porous surface, and the se...
08/06/1985
4513880Bill retention device
A bill retention device includes a relatively long guide belt which has one end thereof secured to a first rotary member and the other end to a second rotary member and is wound on the first rotary member when no bill isretained at all. For accommodating ...
04/30/1985
4475733Enhanced paddle wheel inertial separator and transporter
An apparatus for feeding individual substrates from the top of a stack of substrates includes a paddle wheel having a hub with a plurality of blades attached thereto. The paddle wheel is positioned in driving relation to the substrate stack. As the paddle...
10/09/1984
4453875Displaceable liner for unloading wheel supported receptacles
A wheel supported open top receptacle such as a railway car is provided with a liner arrangement comprising a plurality of belt members arranged between the end walls of the car with the sides of adjacent ones of the belts overlapped in the direction betw...
06/12/1984
4444308Container and dispenser for cigarettes
A disposable container for cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos and similar articles. The container includes a generally cylindrical tubular body having an inwardly rolled lower rim at the lower end thereof engaging a generally circular bottom closure disc seal...
04/24/1984
4381860Paddle wheel retard feeder
An apparatus for feeding individual substrates from the top of a stack of substrates upon demand includes a first paddle wheel mounted above the substrate stack and adapted to forward a substrate from the stack in a predetermined direction and a second pa...
05/03/1983
4057172Apparatus 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
4002266Seed decelerating device
A seed planting device wherein seeds are carried at high velocities from a central selecting and dispensing unit to individual row units, each row unit has a rotating device that positively decelerates the seeds sufficiently to avoid bouncing of the seeds...
01/11/1977
 
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