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Pillow with retractable umbrella
A pillow assembly having a supporting assembly and a retractable umbrella assembly that is easily transportable and allows a user to support his/her head while covering their face from sunlight.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7431285 | Vibratory sheet jogger for jogging and aligning sheets of paper including checks The present invention is a vibratory sheet jogger which is used to jog and separate sheets of paper such as bank checks so that the sheets of paper and/or bank checks can be aligned. To achieve this result, a vertically jogging motion of a sheet tray is generated fr... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7347975 | Bead dispensing system A bead dispensing system is provided for delivering small amounts of substances onto substrates. The system can include, for example, a movable support structure having an array of spaced-apart projections depending from its lower side. An attraction source, such as... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7243817 | Solid objects dispensers A tablet dispenser for dispensing individual solid objects comprising a lower housing, an upper housing with an elastomeric cover that covers at least a portion of a trigger mechanism, a elastomeric cover of at least a portion of the lower housing and a dispenser me... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7207464 | Effervescent tablet dispenser The effervescent tablet dispenser may be assembled onto the open end of a container tube (2). It consists of an annular lower part (3) which may be assembled onto the open end of a container tube (2). For this there is a lid (4) for closi... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7147130 | Single dose pill dispensing system A single pill dispensing system for a bottle/vial of the type for dispensing a medication pill, where the bottle/vial has a circular body and receives a circular cap. To facilitate the dispensing of a single pill, an insert, slidably received in the circular body an... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7111754 | Coin roll dispenser and system incorporating same An apparatus for use in dispensing coin rolls is disclosed. The apparatus includes a receptacle, to hold the coin rolls in a vertically stacked array, a dispensed, to dispense the coin rolls from a bottom of the receptacle, and a controller, to control the dispensin... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7101510 | Matrix storage and dispensing system The present invention provides a system and process providing variable access to, as well as quick and accurate dispensing of, numerous selected reagents from a mass storage arrangement. According to one embodiment, an array of reagent dispensers is supported over a... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099741 | Control systems and methods of dispensing items A control system for regulating a dispenser that includes a feeder bowl and a plurality of dispensing paths is disclosed. The control system includes a control unit for controlling a rotation drive for rotating the dispensing paths, a feeder bowl vibration device fo... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7036681 | Article retrieving container An article retrieving container in which a novel container for storing articles such as confectionery allowing the articles to be retrieved one by one merely by a cover opening operation is provided, including a container body (3) and a cover body (5) ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6948634 | Solid dosage form dispenser A dispenser for dispensing solid dosing forms which include a storage compartment and a releasing portion at the bottom of the storage compartment. The releasing portion is adapted to receive a releasing device which dispenses a single solid dosage form while provid... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6918509 | Toy and pogo dispenser A dispenser for dispensing candy or other small objects, the dispenser having a rotatable hopper, having a hopper cavity therein, a tubular structure, having a storage portion for storing objects above the rotating hopper, a storage portion opening, a base portion, ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6805342 | Printer-control method and printer-control apparatus In accordance with printer-control method and printer-control apparatus according to the present invention, in speed control for a paper-supply motor from the time when a paper-supply roller starts a paper-supply operation to the time when an upper end of a printing... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6799696 | Delivery apparatus for parts An apparatus for delivering parts such as pipette chips in succession to an intended position includes a transfer section. The transfer section includes a stepped portion for changing a transfer passage to upper and lower passages to provide a difference in height b... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6568558 | Electronic component feeding apparatus An electronic component feeding apparatus comprises a feeding rotor having a recess for forming a parallel space with a plane orthogonal to the rotation axis. By oscillating a feeding rotor within a predetermined angular range, the apparatus takes the ele... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6554157 | Cassette systems for feeding, counting and dispensing discrete objects An object counting and dispensing system includes a vibration system, a mounting assembly for coupling a cassette to the vibration system, a chute configured to receive discrete objects from the cassette, and an object sensing system which senses and coun... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6499625 | Animated figure candy dispenser A candy dispenser may be provided with a housing shaped like an animated figure and having first and second housing openings formed therein, a candy container operatively positioned relative to the second housing opening so that pieces of candy that are i... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6332558 | Chip feeder and chip feeding system A chip feeder for feeding chips stored in bulk in a case thereof, one by one, from a chip-supply portion thereof, the chip feeder including a partition plate which parts an inner space of the case into a plurality of rooms, the partition plate having an o... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6325571 | Particulate object conveying apparatus A particulate object conveying apparatus for conveying particulate objects of indefinite shape, e.g., particulate polycrystalline silicon, one by one, comprises: a stagnating portion for stagnating particulate objects; a rotor having a plural number of grooves... | 12/04/2001 |
| 5899358 | Device for dispensing cylindrical objects The invention concerns an apparatus for dispensing cylindrical objects, the apparatus having a dispensing device comprising a device housing having a dispensing opening, a storage magazine disposed within the device housing for storing the objects, and a ... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5816441 | Tablet dispenser with child-resistant locking feature A dispenser for dispensing tablets one at a time which includes a feature which prevents children from dispensing tablets. The dispenser has a reservoir, a chamber below the reservoir in which the tablets are arranged in a single layer and a dispensing pa... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5713187 | Packaging apparatus A boxing apparatus having a substantially horizontal conveyor feeds overlapping folded boxes into a upright gravity fed hopper with a bottom gate portion. The boxes are generally aligned axially in the hopper on the gate portion to be individually removed... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5609270 | Dried biological reagent pill dispenser with vibrating mechanism A dispenser include a housing with an inlet through which reagent pills are received from a vial. Within the housing is a dispensing tube that forms a pill passageway which has a first portion of relatively large cross section adjacent the inlet and a fun... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5429269 | Ice cube containing and dispensing device An ice cube containing and dispensing device having a thermally insulating receptacle with a cooling unit, a mechanism for dispensing individual ice cubes including a lever with a pushbutton, a movable platform which closes an ice cube outlet of the recep... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5392955 | Ball feeding device A ball feeding device which can feed balls one by one without allowing many impacts on the balls and which can prevent the balls from being magnetized. Balls are accommodated in a housing formed with a conical hole in the bottom thereof. A rotary rod havi... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5381925 | Stirrer/straw dispenser A dispenser for containing and dispensing elongated articles such as coffee stirrers, straws and the like is provided and presents an inclined wall therein including upper and lower end portions against and downwardly along which articles to be dispensed ... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5318196 | Coffee stirrer dispenser A dispenser for containing and dispensing elongated articles such as coffee stirrers is provided and presents an inclined wall therein including upper and lower end portions against and downwardly along which articles to be dispensed rest and may move by ... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5240143 | Pencil vending machine A mechanical vending system for vending long cylindrical objects such as pencils or the like. The system comprises a cabinet housing the unvended pencils and a coin receptor mechanism for receiving the coins and vending one pencil at a time. The coins are... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5174471 | Child-proof tablet dispenser A child-proof dispenser for pharmaceutical tablets capable of dispensing such tablets one at a time is disclosed. A sliding drawer with an open-topped tablet receptacle moves from a first position inside the dispenser where a tablet drops into the recepta... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5154316 | Horizontal oscillatory feeder A horizontal oscillatory feeder apparatus is disclosed for feeding a plurality of different types of electrical components of varying mass along respective tracks to component pick-up stations. The components and the tracks are supported on a base plate, ... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5123567 | Fruit hopper for single head juice extractor A fruit bin is provide with a perforated floor or bottom allowing at least a single vertical, movable wall that is mounted to move in and out of said perforation into a fruit storage bin. The movable wall is mounted to a feed metering device that serves a... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5029727 | Tooth-pick dispenser A tooth-pick dispenser includes a housing having a top formed with a first opening for filling tooth-picks into a tooth-pick chamber and an elongated delivery opening, a floor-like member serving as a bottom of the tooth-pick chamber and supported in the ... | 07/09/1991 |
| 4960226 | Apparatus for dispensing pencils with erasure ferrules having a hopper with a coating on its surface that prevents the ferrules from contacting the hopper Disclosed is apparatus for dispensing cylindrical objects such as pencils. The objects are stored in a hopper within a housing and fall out of the hopper into a delivery reservoir which is movable between a first position and a second position. When an ac... | 10/02/1990 |
| 4953749 | Chip separation and alignment apparatus A chip separation and alignment apparatus capable of accurately and readily accomplishing separation and alignment of chips with a simple construction. The apparatus includes a chip separation and alignment section and a chip separation section. The chip ... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4948012 | Dispenser for solid comestibles A dispenser for solid comestibles is disclosed which has a reservoir for containing the comestibles, a port for accessing the comestibles, a channel interposed between the port and the reservoir and a displacement mechanism which dispenses a consistent qu... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4940162 | Rolled coin dispenser A dispensing apparatus for a change machine has a reservoir for storing cylindrical objects such as rolls of coins or paper money stored in tubes. The reservoir has a bottom through which a slot extends. A dispensing mechanism is located beneath the reser... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4854478 | Tablet dispenser An overall cylindrically shaped tablet dispenser that operates by exerting an external vertical force which compresses, through a sliding action, an upper portion toward a lower portion thereby causing a mechanism to issue a tablet. This tablet dispenser ... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4801044 | Chip separation and alignment apparatus A chip separation and alignment apparatus capable of accurately and readily accomplishing separation and alignment of chips with a simple construction. The apparatus includes a chip separation and alignment section and a chip separation section. The chip ... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4718573 | Dispenser for elongated articles A dispenser for elongated articles that is especially adapted for convenient assembly. The dispenser has a generally rectangular storage bin having an inner chamber and an article discharge slot that extends substantially from side to side across the fron... | 01/12/1988 |
| 4612852 | Wafer agitator assembly for ice cream sandwich machine An ice cream sandwich machine includes a nozzle having a discharge end from which ice cream is extruded; a wafer infeed and delivery assembly cooperating with said nozzle and comprising a pair of wafer trays for feeding wafers against opposite sides of th... | 09/23/1986 |
| 4492316 | Tablet Dispenser A dispenser of dispensing tabets one at a time has a reservoir, a chamber below the reservoir in which the tablets are arranged in a single layer and a dispensing passageway which leads to a dispensing orifice. The passageway is of such a width that a sin... | 01/08/1985 |
