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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 |
| 7802697 | Bottle storage for refrigerator A storage device for bottles with a neck, comprising at least one coupling member suitable for suspending the device beneath a shelf of a domestic refrigerator, and a hollow dispensing guide extending longitudinally from a rear end to a front end having a dispensing... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7284678 | Capsule dispensing apparatus with refrigeration A capsule dispensing apparatus includes an elongate tube for containing a plurality of capsules and a housing remote from the elongate tube. The elongate tube may be releasably coupled to the housing, and a dispensing arm connected to the housing may control the rel... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7036664 | Method and apparatus for making and locking members for dispensing packaging products A method and an apparatus for packaging, displaying, dispensing, and storing at least one product, having an inner packaging member and an outer packaging member, the outer packaging member being slidably mounted over the inner packaging member. The inner packaging ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6206237 | Bottle dispenser A dispenser sequentially dispenses a plurality of containers. The dispenser includes a housing having a front, a rear, a top, a bottom, a first side and a second side, with an inlet and an outlet for the containers being disposed on its front. A passage i... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6189734 | Merchandise dispensing device A gravity feed merchandise dispensing device comprises at least one plastic track capable of supporting in tandem a row of similar bottles of the type having an annular neck flange, and has a lead bottle support basket suspended at the front end of the tr... | 02/20/2001 |
| 5586687 | Gravity feed bottle dispensing device having a track-blocking gate mechanism A bottle dispenser has a gate mechanism to maintain the foremost one of the track-supported bottles substantially vertical. The dispenser includes an elongate track which defines a longitudinally extending pathway, a support assembly for the track, and a ... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5553736 | Vending apparatus A vending apparatus for supplying articles such as snacks is disclosed. Articles to be dispensed from the apparatus travel horizontally in a direction parallel with the front surface of the apparatus to a position from which the articles drop through a ve... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5547106 | Apparatus for dispensing objects An apparatus for dispensing objects such as billiard chalk and containers of powder comprises a housing with a front door and two hoppers in it, one hopper for a stack of pairs of chalks and one for a stack of containers of powder, a shelf located below t... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5516003 | Multiple choice vending machine for newspapers and the like Vending machine (1) for newspapers, in the form of a cabinet capable of automatically delivering into a receptacle one copy of a newspaper which a purchaser has selected from a plurality of other newspapers and paid for with a payment device incorporated ... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5505332 | Vending machine and method of operating such In a method of operating a vending machine, a glass container is dispensed with its vertical axis tilted in the vending machine in response to the selective generation of a preselected vending signal. The vertical axis is predeterminately altered into a g... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5407094 | Transparent display package dispenser with see-through replaceable cartridge A transparent display article dispenser, includes spaced front and rear walls and spaced side walls integral with the front and rear walls to define a vertical chute having open upper and lower ends. The front wall includes a first horizontal retainer fla... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5379915 | Apparatus for storing and dispensing chalk Apparatus for storing and dispensing pieces of chalk, the apparatus comprising a container including an outside surface having an input port and an output port formed therein such that the output port is positioned other than directly beneath the input po... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5361938 | Automatic vending apparatus adaptable to accommodate different-sized commodity A commodity delivering device for automatic vending machines in which both thick commodities and thin commodities are sorted out automatically without manually adjusting the commodity passage width. The automatic vending apparatus includes: a commodity fe... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5335818 | Cold drink vending mechanism A vending mechanism for a cylindrical article dispenser of a type having a column of stacked cylindrical articles moved along a dispensing pathway by a force, such as by the force of gravity, is disclosed, which has an escapement mechanism which is attach... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5131562 | Dispenser for soft drink lids and the like A dispenser for dispensing lids for soft drinks or the like from a stack held in an upright container having a discharge opening. An abutment shoulder is attached to the inside of the upright container near its discharge opening. The lowermost lid in the ... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5108005 | Method and apparatus for automatically dispensing items from shelves A method for automatically dispensing items from shelves includes the steps of orienting magazines for a particular type of item horizontally in multi-tier shelves in such a way that removal openings in the respective bottom side face walls of the item ty... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5090590 | Access delay mechanism A limited access container that limits the rate at which articles can be withdrawn therefrom includes a retrieval rod which extends through the top cover of the container and which has an article-holding implement on the lower end thereof. After securing ... | 02/25/1992 |
| 4985714 | Film dispenser with articulated catcher A dispenser of film units is operative with a film processing apparatus enclosed within a housing. The housing includes a front sidewall having an exit slot for delivery of film units, the dispenser including a film ejection device located behind the slot... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4940163 | Wiring accessory dispenser A dispenser for wiring accessories has an elongate plate-like configuration and comprises a baseplate from which projects a bar extending transversely across the baseplate to a width less than the width of the baseplate. A longitudinal groove in the bar p... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4651883 | Gravity feed pusher merchandiser A two-tiered display rack merchandiser for gravity feeding two columns of products one after another to the front of the rack as the lead product in either column is successively removed by a customer, each column of which includes a roller-mounted tray w... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4625894 | Newspaper vending machine A vending machine for dispensing a single, folded, rectangular newspaper from a group of abutting similar newspapers has a frame and housing with an interior, bottom support plate inclined downwardly toward and ending at a forward edge spaced from the fro... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4485937 | Can dispensing apparatus A can dispenser includes a storage rack having a lowermost storage shelf extending downwardly at a slight angle to the horizontal toward a discharge end thereof. A pair of stops are secured to the discharge end along opposing sides thereof for preventing ... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4476997 | Automatic device to distribute, orient and position axes on machines A device is disclosed for separating, orienting and positioning axes including at least one operational flat. The device includes a static chute equipped with a wide bottom opening closed by a drawer which is moved with a back and forth motion from a with... | 10/16/1984 |
| 4023705 | Dispenser for cards and the like Card dispenser for participating games involving an element of chance sequentially dispenses a stack of random cards placed into the device. The dispenser includes a hopper having a dispensing opening and a track divided by uniformly spaced upwardly direc... | 05/17/1977 |
| 4018359 | Live bait vending apparatus Disclosed is apparatus for vending sealed water filled bags of live bait by way of a plurality of helical conveyors coupled with support shafts rotatably driven by selectively actuated motors. The apparatus includes a spring loaded platform assembly havin... | 04/19/1977 |
