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Pizza Pie With Concentric Rings of Crust
A pizza mold for forming a plurality of concentric raised ridges of dough (i.e., crust) on the surface of a pizza pie.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7793797 | Capsule-dispensing cabinet for supplying machines for the preparation of drinks or other food preparations Capsule-dispensing cabinet intended for supplying machines with the aim of preparing drinks or other food preparations, comprising: a body, a plurality of buffer storage housings (3, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35) forming a capsule buffer store, intended to be suppl... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7395946 | Tablet cassette A tablet cassette in which a tablet is not discharged during a mounting or dismounting operation of the tablet cassette. The tablet cassette (1) incorporates a rotor (6) having pocket portions (7) for holding tablets (T). When the tablet cassett... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7337919 | Beverage lid dispenser The current invention is a lid dispensing device and method of use comprising a base unit, a lid holder operatively connected to the base unit, a blade operatively mounted to the base which moves between a first position and a second position, the blade supporting a... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7295890 | Prescription drug compliance monitoring system The drug compliance monitoring system provides a patient with a portable medication dispenser programmed with medication-taking data. The dispenser alerts the patient to take a dose of medication and gathers compliance data relating to the medication-taking data. Th... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7273157 | Article feeder A screw feeder adapted for rapid changeover of screw types. The feeder has a collator section having a floor with slots to collate random screws into rows and an enclosure about the floor for retaining random screws on the floor. The screws are collated by tilting t... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7219703 | Rotating multi-chamber tablet feeder An improved tablet feeder includes a rotating body defining multiple chambers that are arranged in fluid communication with one another in a serial manner. Tablets flow through the multiple chambers for discharge from the tablet feeder. The rotating body has a rotat... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7043827 | Device for installing rivets on rivet holding body A device for loading a rivet and the like in a rivet holder belt which can continuously and securely load a large number of rivets and the like to the rivet holder belt includes: a hopper 11 for storing the rivets and the like at random; a chute 14 whi... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6932222 | Billiard ball rack A rack for storing billiard balls including a base having a first engagement surface. The rack also includes an elongated billiard ball holder defining an elongated central space configured to support a plurality of billiard balls in contact with one another in a ro... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6769570 | Medication dosage container A medicine container comprises an upstanding body having an open mouth and a hollow interior bounded by a sidewall and a separator secured in the body and defining upper and lower compartments, the upper compartment opening into the body open mouth, the lower compar... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6431812 | Apparatus for removing rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry from receptacles A device used in the tobacco-processing industry for emptying a container filled with rod-shaped articles into a magazine, in which the container has an open upper narrow side and an open wide front side. The device includes a container holder that accomm... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6302295 | Prescription cap with transparent daily dosage compartment The invention is a replacement cap applied to pill medication bottles having a transparent hollow storage compartment on the top of such lid, into which a daily dosage of the medicine is placed, enabling the user to visually determine whether the daily do... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6129608 | Candy dispensing character A candy dispensing character is provided with a candy dispensing body, a hollow candy reservoir disposed in the candy dispensing body and sized to hold a plurality of candy pieces, a movable candy dispensing bin attached to the candy dispensing body and b... | 10/10/2000 |
| 5765721 | Note pad single sheet dispenser A note pad dispenser arranged to selectively lift a single web of an underlying note pad is provided, with the note pad having a reusable adhesive strip of each leaf of the note pad, with each adhesive strip arranged in a superimposed orientation relative... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5529209 | Easy load elevating hopper An easy load elevating hopper for a bottle capping machine having a stationary dispensing hopper is provided and contains a mechanism that includes a chain and two sprocket assembly for raising a bin from a lowered charging position, to an elevated discha... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5425473 | Screw feeder A receptacle having a floor with parallel slots to receive and collate screws in a collating section and to queue them in a queuing section of the slots which has an intersecting escapement for depositing screw individually into receivers. The receptacle ... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5383572 | Card counter and dispenser A low cost high speed counter and dispenser of tickets includes a feed roll and a hopper for feeding cards tangentially onto the feed roll. A pair of nip rolls rotating at a higher peripheral speed than the feed roll opens a gap between the trailing edge ... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5326312 | Coin/token dispensing unit A coin dispenser is disclosed which provides an agitator in the form of a rotatable plate having a surrounding ring which is used to agitate the coins so that the coins are constantly agitated as coins are being dispensed. A unique exit construction to mi... | 07/05/1994 |
| 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 |
| 4989753 | Cup dispenser for an automated drinkmaker system An automatic cup dispensing arrangement for separating the bottommost cup from a stack of cups supported in a cup dispenser. The cup dispenser is pivotally mounted about a substantially horizontal pivot, about which the cup dispenser is cyclically pivoted... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4768640 | Feed method and device for assembly parts The invention specifies a method and a device for supplying assembly parts which adhere to or entangle with each other. Individual assembly parts are extracted from an unsorted quantity of assembly parts in a separating or singling operation. These are al... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4681241 | Vending machine A vending machine having a casing enclosing a tiltable hopper cooperating with a feeding-out device. The hopper is suspended upon shelves located at the side walls of the casing, and comprises two series of pockets arranged back to back, the hopper being ... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4678073 | Apparatus and methods for handling bulk arrays of articles A hopper tray for receiving a bulk array for articles, all the same oblong shape and size, is disposed on one side of an elongated conveyer. The tray is angularly movable between an up position at which articles on the tray are discharged onto the conveye... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4648531 | Dispenser for bag closures A dispenser for closures ejects an end-most closure contained in a pivotably mounted housing for closing a bag. The closures are formed with a hole and a cut leading from one side to the hole. In one embodiment, the dispenser is wall mounted such that a w... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4601408 | Nail feeding device A device for the positioning and individual feeding of nails comprises a nail filling container which is pivotal upwards and downwards about a horizontal pivot shaft and in the bottom of which there are formed one or more slots which are substantially per... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4483092 | Bait storage apparatus and technique for fishermen The apparatus and technique enable a fisherman to store a batch of fish bait morsels on his body in such a way that when he needs one, he can isolate it from the batch and pluck it out of storage on the hook of his line, or between the thumb and one finge... | 11/20/1984 |
| 4470519 | Apparatus for feeding balls An apparatus is disclosed for producing a serial flow of balls comprising a ball feeding apparatus cooperating with means for rotating it about an axis. The apparatus comprises: (a) a container for receiving balls to be fed having a wall symmetrically dis... | 09/11/1984 |
| 4420149 | Automatic original document feeder for electrophotographic copier A document feeder for advancing original documents to the exposure platen of an electrophotographic copier which is capable of operating in either a semiautomatic or fully automatic mode. In the semiautomatic mode, an original to be copied is manually ins... | 12/13/1983 |
| 4227626 | Soda straw dispenser A soda straw dispenser consisting of a fixed body having an outlet for a single straw, a container movable within said body member and also having an outlet for a single straw, an ejector member carried by the container, the ejector member normally being ... | 10/14/1980 |
| 4189062 | Dispensing methods and apparatus for split retaining rings A dispenser for split retaining rings includes a base, a bracket mounted on the base, a ring-retaining rail pivotably mounted to the bracket and a guide passage for a ring-removal tool. Lateral displacement of the rail is prevented by maintaining opposite... | 02/19/1980 |
