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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7905372 | Devices useful in system and method for dispensing prescriptions An automated method for dispensing pharmaceuticals, particularly tablets and capsules, and other small discrete objects, includes: receiving prescription information, selecting a container, labeling the container, dispensing the tablets or capsules into the labeled ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7347341 | Automated medication dispenser Each of four compartment blocks have a plurality of pill compartments with floors that are angled downward. The compartments have open ends of similar dimensions. The open ends are proximal to a door compartment. A retainer belt forms a loop around a tractor drive a... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7264139 | Sensor dispensing device A sensor dispensing device (1) comprises a cartridge (2) having an outer casing (11) and a plurality of sensors (6) arranged one upon another in a stack. The cartridge has a first dispensing end (13) and a second opposing end (1... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7234609 | Article dispensing system and method for same An article dispensing machine and article transport storage unit are shown that permit articles slated for inventory to be delivered in secure manner from a centralized inventory supply center to an article dispensing machine forming part of an article distribution ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7131554 | Tablet feeder A tablet feed having a drive transmission composed of a drive gear 7 that is interlocked with the rotating shaft of a motor 6, a driven gear 13 that is interlocked with a rotor 9, and an intermediate gear 14 made up of a first gear section 15 that gears with the dri... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7121426 | Apparatus for dispensing flat items A vending machine for dispensing flat items includes a housing having a removable collection pan with a pan bag, a door with display windows, a coin slide mechanism extending through the door and a folder slide mounted on the inside of the door. The folder slide rel... | 10/17/2006 |
| 6988464 | Animal food and treat dispenser A manually operated dog treat dispensing machine capable of dispensing dog treats one at a time. The dispenser consist of a rectangular housing with a hinged housing door and hinged capital that serves as a food supply reservoir which is gravity fed into a spring lo... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6971546 | Dispenser of single-use portions of preparations for beverages, particularly coffee or the like A dispenser of single-use portions of preparations for beverages, comprising a structure that supports at least one storage assembly for single-use portions provided with a discharge outlet for the discharge of the portions, at least one distribution assembly for th... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6889868 | Coupon dispenser device An improved coupon dispenser device is disclosed comprising an outer box having a sloped front end with rectangular opening therein, a channeled inner sleeve longitudinally extending through the outer box, and a curved, spring-loaded pusher member therein contained ... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6820872 | Media cassette and media dispensing machine having the same A media dispensing machine having a media cassette which includes a casing disposed in a media cassette receiving unit of the media dispensing machine; a media loading unit disposed in the casing and storing media; a driving unit installed at a certain side of the m... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6769565 | Dispensing cartridge and system A dispensing system that includes a housing and a cartridge which is to be inserted into the interior area of the housing. The housing includes a plurality of intersecting exterior sidewalls, a first end wall defining a dispensing throat, a second end wall, and a me... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6738690 | Information management of supply flow of dispensed objects An information management system is applied to a supply flow of dispensed objects by incorporating microcircuitry into a portable dispensing case that is loaded with objects at a loading site and transported to a dispensing site where the objects are dispensed from ... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6672476 | Shot shell primer dispenser A housing has two side walls extend upwardly from a floor to define a channel extending between a primer inlet and a primer outlet. A lanyard clip is fastened to the side walls adjacent the primer inlet, compressing the clip releases it, allowing primers ... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6513679 | Drug storage and dispensing apparatus A device to automatically dispense solid medicinal units, such as pills, capsules, or the like, based upon patient needs. The medicinal units are stored in long, thin tubes. Each tube stores, in single-line, vertical fashion, a series of units of the same... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6471090 | Medicine supply apparatus There is disclosed a medicine supply apparatus which improves the cost and operability required for the maintenance of individual tablet cases. In the medicine supply apparatus, a plurality of tablet cases are stored in a main body case storage part, each... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6471088 | Medicine supply apparatus There is disclosed a medicine supply apparatus which can easily and securely prevent a disadvantage that a medicine is wrongly supplied. The medicine supply apparatus comprises a plurality of tablet cases stored in a main body case storage part, each tabl... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6453641 | Replaceable cap supply cartridge A self-feeding manual cap crimper, indexing mechanism and replaceable cap cartridge provide benefits related to quickly sealing crimp top vials or bottles. A conventional manually operated cap crimping mechanism may be utilized in conjunction with a cap i... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6394306 | Medication dispenser for dispensing flat dosage forms A dispenser for storing/dispensing pharmaceutical dosages that are provided in a stamp-like (flat) dosage form. In some embodiments, the present dispenser includes a housing for retaining a plurality of stacked, individual "stamp-like" pharmaceutical dosa... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6334546 | Ball cartridge means for storing, delivering and collecting practice ball A ball cartridge device includes: a tube container for filling practice balls in the tube container having a locking bar resiliently held in a bottom portion of the tube container for normally preventing discharge of ball from the container, and a dischar... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6308860 | Apparatus for dispensing tablets and food products A dispensing device for a container comprises a housing having an open top portion and a bottom portion. The top portion of the housing is attached or permanently affixed to a container opening. An adjustable opening is disposed at the bottom of the housi... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6293425 | System for dispensing copperplates for imprinting captions on a film in a caption printer Disclosed is a system capable of automatically dispensing copperplates one by one in sequence to be used in imprinting captions on a film in a caption printer. The system has a casing shaped as a slim tube having an inclined guiding hole. A coil spring is... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6250496 | Security closing device for a container having a lid The security device for containers having lids comprises a catch which is mobile internally of a chamber associated to the container and which has an end which is predisposed to insert snugly and be removed from a hollow seating afforded in a lid. The cat... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6223934 | Scrub dispensing cabinet A scrubs dispenser cabinet dispenses garment tops and bottoms to customers in a plurality of sizes. A cabinet housing has a dispense port at a convenient location on the front. A pair of reels within the housing have a first web belt wound onto them and t... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6202891 | Dispenser for liquid applicator A dispenser for elongated rod-like articles. The dispenser has a housing which has a trap chamber rotatable cylinder wherein the trap gravitationally captures from the bottom of a pile, one at a time, one of the rod-like articles and arcuately moves it by... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6193102 | Plate stacker apparatus A plate stacker is described for use in the field of sample analysis. The plate stacker increases the rate and ease with which sample carriers such as microwell plates may be interfaced with an automated system and includes a removable rack attached to a ... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6189730 | Wet towelette and dry towel dispenser apparatus The invention comprises a wall or door-mounted container for cleansing wipes having two separate compartments, one for holding readily available packet stacks (or rolls) of dry paper towel wipes of standard size, and one for holding a sealed containers of... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6073799 | Tablet feeder A tablet feeder includes a mechanism for preventing tablets from being discharged from any pocket formed in the outer periphery of a rotor mounted on a tablet storage case when the case is fitted on or removed from a support. The tablet feeder includes th... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6050448 | Card dispensing cassette A card dispensing cassette includes a housing in which cards are stacked. A dispense outlet is provided in the housing through which cards are laterally dispensed from the cassette. A card retainer, cooperating with the dispense outlet, is slidably mounte... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5788117 | Beverage can dispenser A dispenser for dispensing cylindrical objects of uniform diameter, such as beverage cans, from a package holding at least two rows of the objects, with at least two objects in each row. The dispenser has a front face that defines an object-dispensing ope... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5730318 | Method of an apparatus for evacuating arrayed tubular objects from containers A container which is filled with an array of parallel hollow cylinders of cigarette paper is opened at the top and is overlapped by a retractible temporary cover prior to being partially inverted onto a downwardly sloping top wall of a magazine. The cover... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5649641 | Cartridge for a dispensing system There is disclosed a system for maintaining and dispensing articles in an aseptic environment. The system includes a cabinet of modular units having at least one bank of shelves. Each bank has an open end and a closed end such that the open end is oriente... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5630511 | Dispensing box and method for the continuous feed of fan-folded computer paper A dispensing box for the continuous feed of fan-folded paper to a printer or other device. The box has opposite side walls, a bottom and an open top, and a lid covering the open top. A narrow slot is formed through the lid, extending from one side to the ... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5559577 | Device for replenishing solid processing agent used in a light-sensitive material processing apparatus In an apparatus for supplying a solid processing agent to a processing tank of a photographic material processing apparatus, there is provide a put-back mechanism for putting a solid processing agent back into an accommodation container when the accommoda... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5540315 | Serpentine-type vending rack for a vending machine A vending rack for a vending machine is formed of a housing, a path for a merchandise defined in the housing and having an inlet side and an outlet side, an inlet regulating device situated at the inlet side of the path for regulating a size of the mercha... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5509571 | Plug-in dispenser for sanitary-hygiene items or the like The invention relates to a dispenser for sanitary-hygiene items, such as bags which can be folded up, handkerchiefs, or the like, comprising a box-type housing and a container of a flexible material, such as cardboard, which is exchangeably arranged in th... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5509574 | Package and dispensing system incorporating storage tubes for electrical connectors A package is disclosed for storing and dispensing electrical connectors or components thereof. The package employs a plurality of elongated component-containing tubes in a generally parallel laterally stacked array, with opposite ends of the tubes being i... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5480061 | Portable tabletop cookie dispenser A portable tabletop or counter top cookie dispenser has a transparent container. A pair of laterally spaced partitions extends lengthwise of the container along the bottom of the latter, and the partitions define a trough which opens to a discharge chute ... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5480062 | Vacuum operated medicine dispenser A vacuum operated system for individually dispensing items of oral solid medicine from bulk storage to a user, where the medicine is dispensed under computer control, and the quantity and type of medicine is selected in advance by the user. The invention ... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5462197 | Towelette dispensing device for cleaning a toilet seat A towelette dispensing device is provided, for cleaning a toilet seat on a toilet bowl, which consists of a receptacle mountable onto a vertical flat surface adjacent the toilet seat. A package of towelettes can be inserted into the receptacle. A towelett... | 10/31/1995 |
