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Dining Table Having Integral Dishwasher
A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7356980 | Automated method for packaging food An automated food processing system and method is provided that allows food to be dispensed, fried and packaged in a suitable container, which may be an individual portion-sized container. In one embodiment, the system includes separate automated modules for dispens... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7337594 | Food dispensing device and method An automated food processing system and method is provided that allows food to be dispensed, fried and packaged in a suitable container, which may be an individual portion-sized container. In one embodiment, the system includes separate automated modules for dispens... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334379 | Automated solid pharmaceutical product packaging machine An automated pharmaceutical product packaging machine simultaneously fills a plurality of product package templates in parallel with desired pharmaceutical dosing requirements. The templates are subsequently positioned over a temporary storage template having caviti... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7325700 | Dispenser apparatus and packaging to inhibit propagation of hand-borne pathogens An apparatus for the sanitary dispensing of small stirring straws comprising a dispensing apparatus for dispensing rod-shaped objects comprising a hopper assembly comprised of a hopper bin, and a cylindrical cavity formed beneath said hopper bin; disposed within sai... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325382 | Method and apparatus for loading finished cigarettes into package A device and method for loading cigarettes from a cartridge into a package. The device provides for transferring cigarettes from a cartridge supporting them to a package. ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7303776 | Automated food processing system and method An automated food processing system and method that allows food to be dispensed, fried and packaged in a suitable container, such as an individual portion-sized container. The system includes separate automated modules for dispensing, frying and packaging the food. ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 6960157 | Automated system and method for handling food containers An automated food processing system and method is provided that allows food to be dispensed, fried and packaged in a suitable container, which may be an individual portion-sized container. In one embodiment, the system includes separate automated modules for dispens... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6732486 | Machine for conveying and moving into position tubes, in particular straws A machine for conveying and moving into position tubes (124), the machine including a chute (42) with a vertical feed station for said tubes, conveyor belts (12) and a motor (31) for moving said conveyor belts, characterized in that said ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6691493 | Method of and apparatus for encoding and recording identifying indicia for arrays of rod-shaped commodities Packs of rod-shaped smokers' products comprise containers of a material which permits monitoring of their contents by a suitable detector serving to generate signals which indicate the presence of characteristic indicia on one or more packed smokers' prod... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6612093 | Method of and apparatus for making packets for arrays of discrete commodities A cigarette packing machine has a first drive normally transmitting motion to packing units which are employed to advance a series of arrays of cigarettes or other rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry and to confine each array in a discr... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6354064 | Straw wrapping machine and method A machine and a method for wrapping an elongated object, such as a drinking straw, with a plastic film are disclosed. The machine has a drive for continuously advancing a thin narrow film strip from a supply roll to a wrapper loading and forming station. ... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6338233 | Packing machine assembly with integrated switch cabinet units A packing machine is assembled with one or more control cabinets into a compact aggregate wherein a wall of each control cabinet constitutes at least a portion of the rear wall of the frame of the packing machine. Each control cabinet is movable (such as ... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6223505 | Straw wrapping machine, method and product using a plastic film wrapper A machine and a method for wrapping an elongated object, such as a drinking straw, with a plastic film are disclosed. The machine has a drive for continuously advancing a thin narrow film strip from a supply roll to a wrapper loading and forming station. ... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6158194 | Apparatus for transporting rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry A battery of rod making machines of the tobacco processing industry (such as plain or filter cigarette makers or filter rod makers) is separated from a battery of processing machines (such as cigarette packing or filter tipping machines) by a magazine whi... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6141943 | Food article loading head and method A loading head for loading food articles into packaging includes a transfer conveyor in operable communication with a source of articles to be loaded. The transfer conveyor communicates the articles from an upper receiving position to a lower loading posi... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6125854 | Method for packaging tubular articles A method for packing unfilled cigarette tubes into a receptacle consists of the steps of feeding tubes to a conveyor, moving the tubes along the conveyor to a holding position, and laterally moving a predetermined number of tubes to a container. The conta... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6116245 | Apparatus for packaging tubular articles In an apparatus for the packaging of unfilled cigarette tubes into boxes, a counter counts a predetermined number of tubes and these are subsequently advanced to a holding position and then pushed laterally into a containment member having substantially t... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6079191 | Automated loading of pickles into jars The assembly and method are disclosed for the mechanical automated loading of cut cucumbers into jars. The cucumbers are sized in length and delivered to one or more cutter and loader stations where they are cut into slices or the like, and the slices are... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6041577 | Method and apparatus for slicing elongated food articles into slabs and transferring the slabs to containers The apparatus of the present invention includes an indexing feeder for feeding the elongated food articles, a first slicing station and a second slicing station disposed along the indexing feeder for slicing the food articles into slabs, and a container c... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6041579 | Bag forming machine with straw inserting mechanism A machine for making sealed liquid pouches with a free-floating straw inside the pouch is described. The machine comprises a vertical pouch former which forms a continuous plastic film tube from a film sheet with the plastic film tube disposed about a liq... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5946890 | Soft case packet plus method and device for manufacturing same and other packets Soft-case packet plus method and device for manufacturing same and other packets. On soft-case packets for cigarettes, blanks for an inner wrapping (17) and an outer soft pouch (18) made of paper or the like are folded in usual fashion on a hollow folding... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5816030 | Apparatus for packaging cut strips A method and apparatus for collecting and packaging a plurality of strips of a web material operates in conjunction with a rotary cutter assembly which forms a plurality of strips in parallel, longitudinally spaced array. A platen includes an intake porti... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5775054 | Unit for forming groups of cigarettes The unit for forming groups of cigarettes has at least one substantially U-shaped pocket designed to receive in succession at least two layers of cigarettes, in which the cigarettes are parallel with a longitudinal axis of the pocket, the two layers being... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5720149 | Apparatus for the packaging of articles In an apparatus for the packaging of articles, in particular of sausages (1) or of raw sausage meat (50) formed into sausages (1a) which arrive at a packaging station (3) via a feed device (2), at least one trough wheel (22) is to be arranged in the packa... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5636498 | Bulk straw loading system A bulk straw loading system includes one or more bulk straw staging members having a plurality of compartments which receive, organize and store straws. The straws are detected and counted as they are received. A bulk straw staging member compartment open... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5581981 | Method of packaging toothbrushes A device and method for packaging of toothbrushes in cartons where conveyored toothbrushes gravitationally descend in a containment slide to be released individually from a metering mechanism into dual slotted starwheels. Brushes from the starwheels are d... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5575712 | Device for machine The present invention refers to a device for a machine for handling of sausage between a sausage feeder and a delivering device for sausage to a package with a conveyor operating between the feeder and the delivering device. According to the invention a n... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5471820 | Method of and apparatus for wrapping tampons Digital tampons carrying strings are surrounded in tubular envelopes while being confined in and advancing with upright cylindrical carriers. The envelopes are formed around the carriers so that their lower ends extend beyond the lower ends of the respect... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5454210 | Machine for boxing glass ampuls A machine automatically carries out operations for ampul boxing, because it includes, coordinately operating with one another, a framework, a conveyor device for conveying the ampuls, a box transporting and positioning unit, an ampul transfer device and e... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5421137 | Process for the further handling of sausage In a process for further handling sausages in a sausage string, the sausages are servered from the sausage string at a cutting point. This cutting point is assigned a sensor. The length of the sausage is established ahead of the cutting point by means of ... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5339598 | Apparatus for laoding fasteners in a cartridge A rivet feed system which includes a base feeder assembly (28), having a rivet passageway (30) extending lengthwise therethrough. The base feeder assembly (28) includes cutout regions to receive rivet injectors (24) which are moved in operation between a ... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5305808 | Apparatus and method for inserting cylindrically shaped food product into container A device for loading dough into cylindrical containers is disclosed. A first conveyor is provided which delivers a plurality of cylindrical containers to a receiving surface which is declining with respect to the horizontal. The containers are oriented su... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5265398 | Automatic counting and boxing machine The present invention provides an automatic counting and boxing machine. The machine employs a rotatable drum with a plurality of vanes deposited on the outside surface thereof running parallel to the central axis of the drum. Adjacent to the drum is a me... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5178225 | Loader machine An automatic loading machine is provided for aligning and loading a predetermined amount of elongated strips of product into individual containers wherein batches of elongated strips are periodically discharged from a product feed. A turret assembly is pr... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5157894 | Orientation and loading device for vials in general and syringe vials in particular An orientation and loading device for vials, and in particular syringe vials (A), which are disposed with their axis substantially vertical. The vials are fed by a feeder (1) to an endless conveyor (5) comprising a plurality of orientable cells (6), each ... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5136826 | Stacked container handling apparatus and process A stacked container handling system includes an input section having an input conveyor onto which a box, containing a multiplicity of empty stacked containers arranged in a matrix of rows and columns of vertical stacks of containers, is manually or automa... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5134832 | Method and apparatus for compiling deformable, substantially cylindrical bodies, particularly tampons and for packing them Method and apparatus for compiling deformable, substantially cylindrical bodies and for packing them, comprising vibrating said bodies being positioned at pile delivery substantially parallel adjacent and superposed to each other and being aligned in at l... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5067309 | Apparatus for cutting and assembling batches of diagnostic strips for transfer to containers Apparatus for cutting cards into thin strips and for transferring predetermined numbers of strips into bottles or the like has a rotary knife set which slits the cards into strips and directs alternate ones of the strips into slots on one side of a carrie... | 11/26/1991 |
| 5060454 | Method and apparatus for packaging cylindrical-shaped objects in boxes Cylindrical-shaped objects coming from a conveyor belt of a production line are transferred to a compensator. The compensator continuously receives the manufactured cylindrical-shaped objects and transfers them intermittently. Transfer of the cylindrical-... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5039474 | Apparatus for the ordered, complete filling of a container with rods, particularly rods of spent fuel assemblies from nuclear facilities, in a hexagonally close-packed structure A filling apparatus for the ordered, complete filling of a container with rods, such as spent nuclear fuel rods, in a hexagonally close-packed structure, includes a device for orderly positioning a first row of rods at predetermined positions in a contain... | 08/13/1991 |
