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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7246720 | Condom dispensing device A condom dispensing device (10) including an outer hollow sleeve member (20) that slidably receives a feed unit (12) that includes a three sided feeder body member (30) having a spring biased elevator element (34) supporting a stac... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7137530 | Method and apparatus for positioning an article handling device An article handling apparatus embodied, for example, as a vending machine, includes a controllably positioned hose-type dispenser for retrieving articles from an article storage area. A first end of the hose receives article securing energy (e.g., suction), and a se... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7044330 | Vending machine The present invention relates generally to improvements in article dispensing, such as in a vending machine, and more particularly to improvements in product containment systems which improve product storage capacity, as well as the ease and efficiency of product ha... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6547096 | Vending machine The present inventions relates generally to improvements in article handling, such as in vending machines, and more particularly, to improvements in methods and apparatus for handling articles using a vacuum-type product lifting/dispensing mechanism, to improv... | 04/15/2003 |
| 5619788 | Punch head mountable in a press for fastening bolts to sheet material In order to achieve a disturbance-free and accurate supply of elements to be conveyed to a metal sheet and/or panel, with a minimum mounting height, a device is disclosed for a tool mounted in a press for fastening bolt-shaped elements, in particular scre... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5462196 | Hopper and feed for plastic book-binding strips Plastic binding strips used with this invention comprise a female strip consisting of a narrow, thin plastic strip formed with spaced apertures and grooves communicating with the apertures and a male strip comprising a narrow plastic strip having bendable... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5429269 | Ice cube containing and dispensing device An ice cube containing and dispensing device having a thermally insulating receptacle with a cooling unit, a mechanism for dispensing individual ice cubes including a lever with a pushbutton, a movable platform which closes an ice cube outlet of the recep... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5392954 | Rivet setting machine A device for delivery of fasteners having heads with tenons disposed beneath the heads to an insertion tool. The device includes a sloped track with two spaced-apart rails each having a fastener receiving surface to receive the undersides of the heads of ... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5359171 | Parts feeding device A part is kept on standby so that it can be reliably held by a feed rod. An auxiliary feed rod is provided with an arrangement for holding a part at a fixed position in advance. The part is stopped on the advance and retraction axis of a main feed rod by ... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5339983 | Dual pawl spool feeder A dual pawl, feed mechanism for feeding a strip of fasteners into an installation apparatus. The mechanism includes first and second pawls which are connected together and reciprocate in horizontal synchronism. The dual pawls enable a second strip of fast... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5240139 | Package vending machine The present invention relates to a vending apparatus for selectively dispensing one of a plurality of packages. The vending apparatus comprises: a) an outer cabinet; b) an isolated freezer compartment within the outer cabinet for storing the plurality of ... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5100023 | Rivet delivery device A pneumatic actuator includes an splined shaft which cooperates with a cam follower so that displacement of the shaft is purely axial for a substantial portion of its forward displacement but the final displacement portion rotates the follower and hence t... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5090590 | Access delay mechanism A limited access container that limits the rate at which articles can be withdrawn therefrom includes a retrieval rod which extends through the top cover of the container and which has an article-holding implement on the lower end thereof. After securing ... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5057180 | Apparatus for feeding a preferably multi-ply web of synthetic thermoplastics An apparatus for feeding a preferably multi-ply web of synthetic thermoplastics comprises a pair of feed rolls, which define a feeding nip and each of which is formed with annular grooves, and two scraping rakes, which are secured in the frame and have ti... | 10/15/1991 |
| 4948011 | Method and apparatus for destacking containers An apparatus and method for destacking and dispensing cup-like containers, such as for use in association with an automated product packaging machine, are disclosed. The apparatus includes pairs of upper and lower jaws associated with each stack of contai... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4865223 | Device for organizing disk implements and dispensing single sheets of paper A device for organizing desk implements and for dispensing single sheets of paper. By repeatedly depressing and releasing a pressing bar mounted on a casing containing a stack of paper, one sheet at a time is advanced gradually from a slit in the casing. ... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4802606 | Newspaper dispenser A newspaper dispenser includes a housing with an upwardly biased platform therein for supporting a stack of newspapers. A scoop assembly which dispenses a single newspaper at a time, is mounted in the housing and includes a pusher arm and a scoop connecte... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4792057 | Method 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 |
| 4728090 | Banknote distributing and dispensing machine Two dispensing port mechanisms are arranged in parallel in a banknote distributing and dispensing machine. A distributing mechanism is provided to be selectively arranged at either one of two dispensing port mechanisms. A transmission mechanism is provide... | 03/01/1988 |
| 4715514 | Automatic unitary product dispensing device A device for automatically dispensing a unitary product has a frame having two grooves therethrough. A coil having a movable core is joined to the frame and one end of one U-shaped flange is joined to one end of the core of the coil for movement therewith... | 12/29/1987 |
| 4687119 | Dispenser for hot and cold products An automatic dispenser for hot and cold food products comprises an isothermal cabinet in which a plurality of horizontal conveyor belts arranged one above another comprises a plurality of conveyor belts on which the food products are stored and a single d... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4650091 | Slide-fastener discharging apparatus An apparatus for discharging slide fasteners comprises a guide unit disposed on a horizontal longitudinal path downstream of a pair of feed rollers for receiving the slide fasteners therefrom one after another, and a gripping unit disposed in the path dow... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4645092 | Machine tools Small workpieces are loaded into a pair of detenting (spring-biased) jaws along a loading station center line by a reciprocal feed finger. The jaws are shifted to a work station center line, where tooling is applied, by advancing one jaw toward the other.... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4637524 | Machine tools Coacting, self-centering jaw members in a machine tool which machines small, cylindrical lightweight workpieces; coaction and self-centering is achieved by an equalizer arm actuated by a slide; the slide also actuates one jaw member while the equalizer ap... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4618072 | Bill paying machine A bill paying machine of a type to be disposed between two operators and used in common by them. Two paying outlets are arranged side by side on the front portion of the bill paying machine. The bills are transferred from bill containers of the bill payin... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4557472 | Multi-purpose feeder for successively delivering single sheet or multi-leaved articles from a stack thereof Friction members, working together as an integral unit, rise up into engagement with the lowermost article in a stack to slightly raise it along the engaged portions thereof above the rest of the device as a forward stroke is commenced, thereby warping th... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4488662 | Magazining device for use with automatic component assembling machine A fixture (31) is constructed of plastic for holding a stack of electrical components (10) that are to be sequentially picked off (77) from the bottom of the stack and fed to a component insertion machine. The fixture includes a receiver (32) having a pas... | 12/18/1984 |
| 4457665 | Method for removing individual articles from a stack A method for removing at least one flat article at a time from an at least approximately vertical stack of articles supported on a support surface, by the steps of pushing at least the lowermost article in the stack sideways away from the stack by moving ... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4396131 | Vending machine for beverage cups having a soluble component A vending machine capable of dispensing individual beverage cups incorporating a soluble component, selectively from one of a plurality of stacks, each stack containing cups having a particular type of soluble component. The cups are positioned in inverte... | 08/02/1983 |
| 4327843 | Cup dispensing mechanism A dispensing mechanism for singularly removing a cup from the bottom of a vertically nested stack of cups in a hopper is described. This mechanism, designed principally for beverage vending machines, has a pair of coacting jaws which each contact nearly o... | 05/04/1982 |
| 4200180 | Mechanism for feeding workpieces A transfer finger for feeding small workpieces is pivotally mounted at the forward end of a rod which is adapted to be advanced and retracted by a reciprocating pneumatic actuator. During the initial portions of the advance and retract strokes of the actu... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4024984 | Dispenser with at least one ejection opening for individual emission of particles of a uniform shape and size, predosed as bulk material The invention relates to a dispenser with at least one ejection opening for the individual dispensing of particles of uniform shape and size, predosed as bulk material, consisting of a cupshaped first rotational body and of a second rotational body dispos... | 05/24/1977 |
