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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 |
| 7886929 | Device for storing and dispensing endless machining belts for a robotic installation A device for storing and dispensing endless machining belts for a robotic installation is disclosed. The device includes a support rotating about a vertical axis and having radial arms. Each arm is equipped with means for locating a machining belt, and means for con... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7866506 | 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 ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7735680 | Controlled dispensing system with modular carousel A dispensing device and method including a housing defining an opening. A door is movable relative to the housing from a closed position to a maximum open position. The door and the housing defining an access portion of the opening. A tray is disposed within the hou... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7395945 | Controlled dispensing system with modular carousel A dispensing device and method including a housing defining an opening. A door is movable relative to the housing from a closed position to a maximum open position. The door and the housing defining an access portion of the opening. A tray is disposed within the hou... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7349858 | Method of dispensing and tracking the giving of medical items to patients A method of tracking and dispensing the dispense of medical items for use by patients associated with a health care institution, includes storing in a data store in connection with a computer, data representative of patients and medical items prescribed for the pati... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7329394 | High throughput incubation devices The invention provides an efficiently automated incubation device that reduces the number of powered moving parts in the device and the amount of air transfer between environments that are internal and external to the device. ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7293672 | Chemical feeding device In a medicine supply apparatus having a plurality of tablet cases equipped in a case accommodating portion of a main body, each tablet case containing medicines, chutes into which medicines discharged from the respective table cases fall, a hopper equipped in corres... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293673 | Drawer item dispenser A dispensing system for dispensing items. The system includes a base that has first and second compartments. The base can rotate about an axis. An item can be stored in one of the first and second compartments. The system also includes a cover that covers the base, ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7228200 | Apparatus, system and methods for dispensing products Products are dispensed from a dispensing apparatus in which products marked with transaction information are received in a chain of bins. In response to control information synthesized from transaction information on the products in the bins and a dispense request, ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7182219 | Vending machine for dispensing items in small packages A coin-operated vending machine includes a magazine which stores small boxes or packages of items one on top of the next in columns or stacks arranged in a circumferential row thereof and a dispensing mechanism operable to effectively dispenses such small boxes or p... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7142944 | Apparatus for securing drawer contents A cabinet suitable for use in storing items. The cabinet includes a drawer having a base. A plurality of cassettes are arranged within the drawer. Each cassette is individually movable in a direction that is substantially perpendicular to the base. A plurality of lo... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7086589 | Smart connections The invention provides a method of controlling access to an object (16), such as a product for sale. The object (16) or its packaging (110) is secured, for example to a sales console (12,68) by use of connecting means (26). The con... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7025259 | Device for customizing and dispensing contactless smart tickets A device for the customization and automatic dispensing of single smart contactless tickets provided with a device to check the reliability of tickets and a device to customize the tickets, and including a storage location for tickets in the form of a vertical stack... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6926166 | Device for combining candy dispensers and health and beauty aid dispensers A product combining individual novelty candy dispensers and health and beauty dispensers into a single device. In one embodiment a lip balm dispenser is combined with a breath spray dispenser into a single product. In another embodiment, a lip embodiment a lip balm ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6889840 | Sale and storage packaging for zinc-air cells A packaging for galvanic cells including a carrier; a rotatable insert arranged on the carrier, wherein the rotatable insert has blisters to accommodate a plurality of the galvanic cells and the carrier has an opening to withdraw one of the cells from the insert; an... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6775591 | Portable medication dispensing unit A medication dispensing cart has a pull-out drawer, and a conveyor that transports a number of removable medication bins within the cart, one at a time, to the position of the drawer. An on-board processor controls operation of the bin conveyor mechanism whose pathw... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6398070 | Automatic paper feed and skew prevention apparatus An automatic document feed apparatus includes a document tray having a document positioning surface extending along a transporting direction. A main roller receives a document from the document tray by rotating in the transporting direction. A return roll... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6394308 | Tablet feeder A tablet feeder of the type in which tablets in a storage case are discharged by rotating a rotor. The tablet feeder can prevent tablets, which are about to be discharged by slight rotation of the rotor, from being inadvertently discharged when the storag... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6286711 | Feeder for electronic chip components An electronic chip component feeder is provided to prevent continued supply of electronic chip components for mounting which have surface discolorization, deteriorated electrode solderability, or cracks or chips produced by chip collisions. The electronic... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6241237 | Automatic document feeding method and apparatus and duplexing document scanning device using same A method and apparatus for picking the top or the bottom sheet, as desired from a stack of sheets of documents to be scanned using opposed rollers or other members which apply differing amounts of frictional force to opposite faces of the sheet to be pick... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6085937 | "Golf ball vendor" and "alternate" product vendor Disclosed is a coin operated vending machine for individual golf ball or similarly sized product, includes a rotating carousel for holding stacks of product within a housing with an enclosed main display compartment and a slide assembly for dispensing pro... | 07/11/2000 |
| 5848935 | Rotary arcade game apparatus and method A merchandise game of chance visually displays a commercially acceptable variety and number of prizes retained in magazines, some of which run along generatrices of a conical rotating body. A second set of magazines is interleaved with the first set of ma... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5730316 | Multiple-product merchandising machine A multiple product merchandising machine having a cylindrical drum mounted within a cabinet and having a plurality of compartments of varying size which pass by at least one access door. The access door is mounted in the cabinet for sliding movement to al... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5630525 | Dispenser for consecutive dispensing of tablets A dispenser for consecutive dispensing of tablets in a fixed order comprising a cylindrical body defining along its periphery a number of juxtaposed vertical chutes each accommodating a number of tablets piled on edge radially oriented in the body, a cup ... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5443680 | Mosaic tile maker An apparatus for automatically creating a simulated mosaic controllably discharges tile pieces onto plate material and secures the tile pieces in place such that the plates with the tile pieces are freestanding permitting the plates themselves to be an or... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5360134 | Multiple-product merchandising machine A multiple-product merchandising machine having a cylindrical drum mounted within a cabinet. The drum is divided into a plurality of horizontal shelves each of which is divided by a plurality of vertical walls into separate compartments from which the pro... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5285926 | Multiple-product merchandising machine A multiple-product merchandising machine having a cylindrical drum mounted within a cabinet. The drum is divided into a plurality of horizontal shelves each of which is divided by a plurality of vertical walls into separate compartments from which the pro... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5277330 | Automatic distributor for packaged articles The invention relates to a rotary magazine distributor apparatus (16) comprising a plurality of vertical channels (20) containing piles of respective different articles (6). The apparatus is arranged in order to dispense automatically articles selected by... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5261564 | Drum-type vending machine A drum-type vending machine for vending articles, particularly snack-size candy, comprises a housing, a rotary drum mounted within the housing for rotation about a longitudinal axis of the drum, the drum including a plurality of vertical bins for holding ... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5242080 | Apparatus for temporarily storing articles and for a new delivering same The invention relates to an apparatus for forming a buffer store of articles, including stackable or restable articles such as cups, plate-or disc-shaped objects, or covers. The apparatus includes supply means for feeding the articles, at least one storag... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5219094 | Automatic dispenser, particularly for audio/video products An automatic dispenser for the sale/exchange of video cassettes/compact ds and similar. The products are housed on a rotary drum inside respective peripheral radial compartments arranged side by side in two concentric rings of the same diameter and occup... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5212649 | Electronic robot key distributor An apparatus for storing, dispensing and keeping track of articles, such as keys, has a plurality of compartments for the articles arranged in a cylindrical array, with openings, one for each compartment, being arranged on the surface of the cylinder. The... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5199565 | Small battery dispensing and removal apparatus A novel way to package and dispense small batteries which provides easy installation and removal of batteries from small electronic devices is described. More particularly, the invention relates to a battery dispensing and removal apparatus for simple ins... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5169027 | Multiple-product merchandising machine A multiple-product merchandising machine having a cylindrical drum mounted within a cabinet. The drum is divided into a plurality of horizontal shelves each of which is divided by a plurality of vertical walls into separate compartments from which the pro... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5159560 | Automated merchandise dispensing and retrieval system A system from which a customer may rent and return videocassettes. The system has a plurality of vending machines for dispensing and receiving videocassettes including a carousel rotated about a horizontal axis and having bins for storage of videocassette... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5080257 | Apparatus for automatically dispensing cones and the like, destined to contain ice cream An apparatus for automatically dispensing cones and the like, contained in piled-up condition and in upside-down position inside a plurality of container tubes. A carrousel revolves stepwise over a plane above which the cones rest and slide. A pair of sta... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5067630 | Vending machine A vending machine has a carousel containing several rotatable trays stacked one above another. The trays carry and present for vending selected items, such as food and merchandise. The carousel is contained in a housing or canister and is part of an integ... | 11/26/1991 |
| 5048717 | Multiple-product merchandizing machine A multiple-product merchandizing machine having a cylindrical drum mounted within a cabinet. The drum is divided into a plurality of horizontal shelves each of which is divided by a plurality of vertical walls into separate compartments from which the pro... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5036828 | Target magazine A magazine for targets to be thrown from a throwing device having a rotatable throwing arm mounted for rotation with a shaft is disclosed. The magazine comprises a stationary plate having a transfer opening therein and a holding member for holding a plura... | 08/06/1991 |
| 5014875 | Medication dispenser station An improved medication dispenser station is provided for controlled access storage of medications and other pharmaceuticals in a medical facility, such as a hospital or the like. The dispenser station comprises a housing with a plurality of normally locke... | 05/14/1991 |
