Celebrity Inventors
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is a patented inventor - she created a diaper equipped with a premoistened baby wipe. And that's no act!
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7426988 | Coin return process The present invention relates to a coin return process applicable in coin returns in which at least two types i of coins of different values coexist in a single storage area. The process has the steps of: obtaining a total value to... | 09/23/2008 |
| 6425471 | Coin selector Improved coin selector of the type being incorporated in any kind of machines operated by means of the insertion of coins to be validated, the selector (1) comprising an anti-thread safety mechanism constituted by a generally L-shaped lever (3) that is po... | 07/30/2002 |
| 5494145 | Coin validator for testing the mass of a coin A coin validator which discriminates valuable coins includes a coin path along which the coins roll. A leaf spring is fixed at one end and has a spring member which projects into the coin path at the other end when the leaf spring is in a rest position. T... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5469952 | Coin discrimination apparatus Coin discrimination apparatus includes a coin rundown path along which coins roll so as to impact a snubber provided with a piezo electric device. The coin impact produces an oscillatory voltage output from the device, which is sampled over a predetermine... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5370210 | Device for obtaining the mechanical characteristics of coins "Device for the obtaining of mechanical characteristics of coins", composed of a beam (1) that is embedded by at least one of its ends (2) and a flexible elastic by its displacement of coins through the length of the same. This beam (1) consist of an elon... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5248023 | Coin selectors Improvements in coin selectors to determine weight as an additional measurement to the alloy, diameter and cross section consisting of a mechanical device made up of two overlapped levers (2) and (3) the free end of lever (2) remaining under an orthogonal... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5085309 | Electronic coin detector An electronic device with no moving parts identifies and counts coins. The device may comprise a plurality of sensors and appropriate circuitry for interpreting the signals emitted by the sensors. In a preferred embodiment, a sensor to detect the presence... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5062518 | Coin validation apparatus Coin validation apparatus having a coin chute including a hard striking surface upon which a coin entering the apparatus is directed. A microphone is positioned to detect acoustic vibrations of the coin after it strikes the striking surface. An output fro... | 11/05/1991 |
| 4848556 | Low power coin discrimination apparatus A low power coin discriminator detects and identifies the denomination of a coin to activate a parking meter, telephone, or vending machine device. Initially the device is in a low power, dormant state. Insertion of a coin into the discrimator trips a swi... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4741426 | Coin acceptor for vending machine A coin acceptor includes first and second members initially spaced apart from one another and frictionally carrying a third member having a coin selectively positioned thereon. Moving the first and second members toward one another causes relative displac... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4705153 | Coin acceptor for vending machine A coin acceptor includes first and second members initially spaced apart from one another and frictionally carrying a third member. Moving the first and second members toward one another displaces the third member a distance corresponding to the weight of... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4629051 | Coin sorting device A coin sorting device is designed to inhibit tampering with a coin operated machine by means of a wire, metal tape or the like, and to further prevent non-acceptable coins from being accepted by the coin-operated machine. The various embodiments of the de... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4544058 | Coin acceptor This invention relates to testing a coin by catching the coin, while it is moving, between a varying radius cam and a pin on a low inertia carrier. The carrier axle is in a fixed relationship to the cam. The coin's momentum plus weight turn the carrier un... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4446956 | Single coin carriage bar A single coin carriage bar for use with a coin control device wherein the coin control device includes a coin totalizer mechanism having an actuator registered portion for accumulatively totaling the value of coins deposited in the coin controlled mechani... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4327824 | Cheat preventing device for coin machines In the part of the passageway leading out of a coin testing apparatus is an L-shaped member comprising an upright leg and a generally horizontal foot which lies in a plane coincident with the thickness (narrow dimension) of the passageway. The leg is susp... | 05/04/1982 |
| 4190145 | Cigarette dispensing apparatus A coin operated dispensing apparatus for vending cylindrical items such as individually packaged cigarettes. Generally stated the dispensing apparatus comprises a vertically mounted storage magazine for storing a plurality of cylindrical items to be dispe... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4101016 | Coin testing apparatus In coin selection apparatus a device for performing a rim check on coins and comprising a swinging cradle provided with a pair of jaws having confronting points to grip a coin and a pivoted carriage to support the weight of the coin and to close the jaws ... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4068752 | Interacting coin-blockout units for a preferred loading of coin tubes A coin-feeding assembly for equally loading a particular denomination coin into a pair of coin tubes which includes a pair of coin-control units pivotally mounted generally above a pair of reception paths. One of the coin-control units has a coin-blockout... | 01/17/1978 |
| 3997045 | Roulette savings box A coin box has an upper structure serving as a coin chute for receiving coins and passing them to the lower box. Within the coin chute structure is a paddle wheel arrangement mounted for rotation about a horizontal axis spaced off-center of the chute port... | 12/14/1976 |
| 3946849 | Coin-chute for testing the ferrous content, weight, and presence of an aperture in coins An inclined coin chute includes devices for testing the ferrous content of, the weight of, and the presence or lack of a central aperture in coin-tokens which are present in and advancing through the coin-receptive chutes of the inclined coin-chute, where... | 03/30/1976 |
