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Mouthguard made at least partially from an edible candy
A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8066150 | Dispensing canister for delivery of solid medications The apparatus and process of the present invention provides for the automated, singulated dispensing of articles, particularly solid oral medication in predetermined quantities. The apparatus of the invention is a canister which houses a screw having a channel of a ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8033424 | Automatic prescription drug dispenser An automatic prescription drug dispenser including a remote dispenser, a prescription entry system, and a communications network. The remote dispenser transmits and receives information from the communications network and dispenses prescription drugs to the patient.... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7909207 | Smart tray for dispensing medicaments The invention relates to a method of determining a status condition of a medicament container having a memory contained therein for storing medicament effect data, such as, for example, drug interaction, side effect, and other information for determining the status ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7320413 | Self-closing dispensing container A disposable container for holding and dispensing one oral care, candy and/or medicinal strip at a time, without the need to open the package or to insert one's dirty fingers into the package, thereby eliminating the contamination of the remaining strips, and allowi... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7249761 | ATM currency presenter gate arrangement An ATM includes a currency note dispenser having a currency cassette, a note picker, a note transporter, and a note presenter. A cassette tambour door automatically opens during insertion of the cassette into the dispenser. The picker can pick notes through the open... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7246720 | Condom dispensing device A condom dispensing device (10) including an outer hollow sleeve member (20) that slidably receives a feed unit (12) that includes a three sided feeder body member (30) having a spring biased elevator element (34) supporting a stac... | 07/24/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7201302 | Driver blade with auxiliary combustion chamber for combustion powered fastener-driving tool A driver blade for use in a combustion-powered fastener-driving tool includes an elongate tubular body having a combustion end and a driving end, the combustion end being configured for attachment to a piston, and the driving end having a substantially solid cross-s... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7182332 | Feed device for stacks of paper, plastic material or the like A feed device for stacks of paper or plastic material has at least one transport unit with a supporting member for the stack and at least one transport element. A separating unit with at least one rotatably driven feed drum is provided for removing individual sheets... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7159717 | Packaging design with separate compartments A gum packaging design that utilizes two separate compartments, an upper compartment and a lower compartment. Each of the compartments may be formed from a separate paperboard blank. The blanks are folded to form the compartments and then the lower compartment is ad... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7140608 | Bill box for bill acceptor A bill box used in the bill receiver of a coin exchanger for accommodating banknotes received by the bill receiver is disclosed to have a gate installed in the first chamber thereof and a driving mechanism controllable to move the gate between two positions to close... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7128238 | Apparatus for dispensing flat items A vending machine for dispensing flat items includes a housing having a removable collection pan with a pan bag, a door with display windows, a coin slide mechanism extending through the door and a folder slide mounted on the inside of the door. The folder slide rel... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7124911 | Container and cartridge for dispensing paper products The present invention provides a container for dispensing individual paper products that includes a housing, a cover hingedly or removably attached to the housing wherein the cover defines a dispensing opening, a means for elevating paper products, and a plunger dis... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7111767 | Power actuated fastener system An automated power actuated gun having a fastener feeding track with guides for holding a fastener assembly having a plate and attached stud in a firing position. The power actuated gun is attached to the fastener feeding track so as to permit relative movement ther... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7112979 | Testing arrangement to distribute integrated circuits Arrangements having integrated circuit (IC) voltage and thermal resistance designated on a per IC basis. ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7104748 | Methods for use with tray-based integrated circuit device handling systems A stack processing tray for use with tray-based integrated circuit device handling systems. The stack processing tray has a plurality of cells, each cell being configured to receive at least two integrated circuit devices in a vertically superimposed, stacked relati... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7093737 | Container and cartridge for dispensing paper products The present invention provides a container for dispensing individual paper products that includes a housing, a cover hingedly or removably attached to the housing wherein the cover defines a dispensing opening, a means for elevating paper products, and a plunger dis... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7066370 | Cassette for stapler A cassette for stapler capable of storing staples with different lengths of needle legs and capable of being manufactured at a low cost, comprising a cassette body formed slender with a channel shaped cross section and having a staple extrusion groove provided at th... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7063234 | Meter strip dispenser assembly The present invention is directed to diagnostic kits that house and deliver a carrier for an analyte, such as a test strip carrying an blood glucose analyte used by persons afflicted with diabetes in order to determine their blood glucose levels. ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7063233 | Method of folding gloves and dispenser therefor A method of interfolding gloves including superposing finger portion of second glove adjacent finger portion of first glove, with second glove finger portion being disposed parallel and in a direction opposite the first glove finger portion, in a superjacent opposin... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7018286 | Coin holding device for filling coin cassettes A coin stacking device is used to refill a coin cassette of a coin dispenser. The coin stacking device includes a cylindrical structure having an inner diameter approximately the same as a diameter of the coins. The cylindrical structure has one open end and one clo... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6942207 | Bill receiving/dispensing box A recycle box to be mounted on a bill receiving/dispensing machine including a bill convey path, includes a stacking/separating mechanism arranged to receive bills from the bill convey path so that the bills are contained in the recycle box, and to separate at least... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6932527 | Card cartridge A card cartridge includes a housing having a pair of opposing side walls, a top, a front wall, a back wall opposite the front wall, and a base. The housing includes an interior cavity that is sized to accommodate a stack of cards, a card access, and a card output sl... | 08/23/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6840402 | Probe cover dispenser A probe cover dispenser comprises a main body, an elastic component, and a separation board. The main body has a receiving groove therein. A groove is disposed at the top end of the main body. The elastic component is disposed in the receiving groove. One end of the... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6745918 | Elevating dispenser for canister An elevating dispenser to lift and suspend fragile foodstuffs from within an upright canister for serving. A column of wafers (13) rest on an elevating dispenser (10) inside a canister (11). When wafers have been removed to the point that they a... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6471074 | Candy holder with spring-ups A candy holder for holding candy or gum having a hole in a center of the candy or gum. The device includes a housing with an aperture with three different sized diameters in order from an upper end of the housing to the bottom end, a spring assembly force... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6202006 | Cassette for a rotary rolled coin dispenser A coin roll cassette is disclosed. The cassette is used in a coin roll dispensing apparatus of the type that includes at least one rotatable dispensing wheel. Such dispensing wheel has a device for engaging cassettes therein to retain the cassettes within... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6112940 | Vertical magazine apparatus for integrated circuit device dispensing, receiving or storing An apparatus for dispensing, receiving or storing packaged integrated circuit devices using at least one vertically-oriented, removable, tubular magazine disposed above a controllably-driven, rod-like indexing element extending from a drive below the maga... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6029852 | Device for dispensing card-like media A device for dispensing card-like media, referred to as "cards", from a stack of such cards has a front-loading magazine for storing and dispensing the cards, the magazine being received within a primary aperture of a housing. The magazine has a casing fo... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5836476 | Motorized newspaper dispensing system A new Motorized Newspaper Dispensing System for dispensing of various printed literature within one machine and further minimizing theft by dispensing only one printed literature at a time. The inventive device includes a housing structure strengthened to... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5829631 | Apparatus for dispensing tickets, cards and the like from a stack An apparatus dispensing articles such as tickets and cards includes a cabinet and a plurality of article dispensing assemblies inside the cabinet. Each article dispensing assembly includes a base and a frame for enclosing the articles to be dispensed in a... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5813569 | Point-of-sale merchandiser A point-of-sale merchandiser for merchandising products adjacent a cashier counter. The merchandiser includes a housing having a top opening and a product dispensing rack disposed upright in the housing. The dispensing rack is positioned in the housing so... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5785206 | Dispenser for candies or the like The body of a dispenser includes a compartment (C) configured to receive a stack of pellets (P). A dispensing slot (S) is located at one end of the compartment (C). A spring biases the pellets (P) toward the slot (S). A lever (50) has a rest position in w... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5678728 | Dispenser for flexible sheets A dispenser for flexible sheets, especially end wrap papers. The dispenser is designed to be worn on the arm of a user or to be strapped to a stand. The dispenser comprises a box for holding a plurality of the sheets. At least one flap is connected to the... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5653942 | Chemical analysis element cartridge A chemical analysis slide cartridge includes a box-like cartridge body in which a plurality of chemical analysis slides are stacked. A slide take-out port is formed in one end of the cartridge body and the chemical analysis slides in the cartridge body ar... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5649641 | Cartridge for a dispensing system There is disclosed a system for maintaining and dispensing articles in an aseptic environment. The system includes a cabinet of modular units having at least one bank of shelves. Each bank has an open end and a closed end such that the open end is oriente... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5598948 | Fastener dispenser A dispenser for applying dual head fasteners from a fastener stock which comprises a plurality of fasteners attached to a runner bar such that the fasteners extend outwardly from the runner bar substantially parallel with one another and substantially per... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5536472 | Chemical analysis element cartridge A chemical analysis element cartridge includes a box-like cartridge body in which a plurality of chemical analysis elements are stacked and are taken out through an element take-out port formed at one end of the cartridge body. A pressing member is slidab... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5534224 | Chemical analysis film cartridge A chemical analysis film cartridge having a box-like casing body with opposing first and second end walls and in which dry frameless chemical analysis film chips are stored in a stack between the end walls. A first opening is formed in a side wall of the ... | 07/09/1996 |
