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Wearable Device For Feeding and Observing Birds and Other Flying Animals
A device for feeding and observing flying animals comprising a hat, a support mounted on the hat and extending outward from the hat, and a feeder mounted on the support.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7568972 | Coin counter A coin counter includes a receptacle disposed on a stand and defining a space for coins. A rotary plate assembly is disposed in the space, and is driven by a drive assembly to eject the coins out of the receptacle. A rigid push rod forms a spacing with the rotary pl... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7244175 | Coin recycling machine and method A coin recycling machine (10) for receiving, sorting and dispensing coins, comprising a coin dispenser having a rotatable coin magazine (23) for holding respective denominations of coins and having an electronic control (100, 107), said electron... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7131573 | Merchandise sales data processing apparatus A merchandise sales processing apparatus communicates with a money changer machine for automatically dispensing cash, acquires a sales figure in a transaction, acquires a differential amount in the money changer occurred in the transaction from the money changer, de... | 11/07/2006 |
| 6623349 | Currency handling apparatus A currency handling apparatus is arranged to perform a float operation at the end of which a store holds coins of various denominations in appropriate quantities such that their collective value is equal to a predetermined value, wherein the respective pr... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6601686 | Vending machine A vending machine capable of preventing fraudulent use of false coins of a plurality of kinds. The number of slotted coins acceptable in one vending operation is preset in setting unit (112). The coins slotted into a coin slotting unit (101) are counted b... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6356805 | Method and apparatus for controlling the dispensing of money A method of controlling the dispensing of money in the form of units available in a plurality of denominations includes selecting the units for a dispensing operation by considering the rate of change of the number of stored units for at least one denomin... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6055521 | Unattended automated system for selling and dispensing fluids, with change-dispensing capability A system for selling and dispensing of fluids, with change-making capability permits and the unattended sale and dispensing of motor fuels. The system may be incorporated either directly into a motor fuel pump or it may be incorporated into a module that ... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5366404 | Auxillary coin dispenser with transaction data recording and transfer mechanisms A coin dispenser adapted for use with an electronic cash register or point-of-sale terminal which includes a key sensor for accepting a coded identification key which identifies a particular sales clerk and which maintains a record of the number of coins ... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5184708 | Vend transaction control means The present invention comprises an apparatus for controlling the vending and payback of change in a vending machine and includes a device for establishing a list of permissible payback amounts from the vending machine and for adding each of the permissibl... | 02/09/1993 |
| 4967896 | Control arrangement for automatic vending machine A control arrangement for an automatic vending machine includes a price memory device for preliminarily storing selling prices of commodities, a coin signal output section for outputting coin signals upon insertion of coils, a sum calculating device for c... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4836825 | Automatic dispenser and coin changer A coin recognizing selector (3) is followed by a buffer coin box (5) serving as a temporary store for newly inserted coins. The buffer has a stepping motor-indexable, bottomless and topless, circular loading magazine with P+2 radial cells bounded by radia... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4817041 | Electronic cash register with change discharger An electronic cash register is disclosed that is operable with a change discharger that discharges a plurality of unit amounts of money. The electronic cash register includes a RAM, in which a minimum unit amount of money to be paid back by an operator to... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4359062 | Electronic coin dispenser An electronic coin dispenser provides a calculator and a printer besides dispensing coins and displaying the amount of change on an 8-digit LED display. The electromechanical coin dispensing elements and the thermal print head are controlled by a microcom... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4347924 | Control system for a vending machine The control system for a vending machine according to the invention is designed for preventing shortage of change coins to a maximum possible extent. According to the control system, as many coins of a low denomination as possible among coins inserted by ... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4310885 | Point of sale terminal having prompting display and automatic money handling A point of sale system includes at least one computer, a keyboard, and money receiving, dispensing and storing mechanisms. The keyboard has item keys corresponding to an item for sale, category keys, function keys and a numerical pad. A bill tendered as p... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4070564 | Anti-theft cash register This invention relates to an anti-theft cash register of the type for use at the point of sale for calculating and collecting the total charges for the sale. The cash register includes a vault for storing money therein and a deposit system for receiving a... | 01/24/1978 |
