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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7438201 | Apparatus for detecting of dropping tablets in automatic medicine packaging machine An apparatus for precisely, detecting a tablet dropped in a last hopper so that packaging speed of tablets is increased and operation of a shutter and a sealer is precisely performed, is disclosed. The automatic medicine packaging machine includes a last hopper prov... | 10/21/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7322166 | Apparatus for unwrapping and transporting frangible wafers for ice cream sandwiches and the like The present invention is an apparatus and method for unwrapping a package of frangible articles bearing a wrapping material, the wrapping material having a rear portion and a forward tab, the forward tab adapted to open the wrapping material when pulled, the apparat... | 01/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7018033 | Inkjet printer provided with a device for dispensing ink pellets An inkjet printer provided with a dispensing device for dispensing ink pellets of substantially identical shape, said dispensing device including a duct for transporting the ink pellets from an upstream location to a downstream ink pellet separating unit, a first bo... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6325242 | Note holding and dispensing device with cassette A note holding and dispensing device is provided which comprises a frame 16; a cassette 18 removably positioned in a cavity 112 of the frame 16; a transfer device 24 which comprises an extraction drive means 120 and a conveyer means 122 provided in the fr... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6206235 | Candy dispenser A candy dispenser includes a container defining a chamber adapted to hold a plurality of pieces of candy in a random fashion. The container has sides, a top, and a bottom which define the chamber. A dispensing tube extends along one side of the container.... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6092977 | Rod-shaped article supplying apparatus A rod-shaped article supplying apparatus includes a hopper for reserving rod-shaped articles such as cigarettes and for permitting a rod-shaped article to be discharged through a lower opening thereof, and a supply cylinder formed at its outer peripheral ... | 07/25/2000 |
| 5901878 | Ball can vending machine A ball can vending machine comprises a cylindrical storage drum including a housing section sized to hold a plurality of ball cans with the longitudinal axes of the cans disposed parallel to the cylindrical axis of the housing section. The housing section... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5730318 | Method of an apparatus for evacuating arrayed tubular objects from containers A container which is filled with an array of parallel hollow cylinders of cigarette paper is opened at the top and is overlapped by a retractible temporary cover prior to being partially inverted onto a downwardly sloping top wall of a magazine. The cover... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5713489 | Dispenser An apparatus for dispensing rod-like members that are stored in a parallelepipedal housing. The housing includes a base for carrying the rod-like members, with the base being movable against the force of one or more return springs. The base has a narrow s... | 02/03/1998 |
| 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 |
| 4813838 | Automatic loader for computer diskettes A computer diskette automatic loading device having a hopper for holding a plurality of diskettes, and an automated diskette selection mechanism for the serial removal of diskettes from the hopper for processing and sorting of diskettes into accept and re... | 03/21/1989 |
| 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 |
| 4487024 | Thermoelectric ice cube maker The ice maker includes an ice mold in direct thermal communication with a thermoelectric refrigeration unit for freezing water contained in the mold. The mold and a harvest means for removing ice from the mold are in an insulated housing defining a cold s... | 12/11/1984 |
| 4466229 | Process and machine for automatically packing individual drinking straws, or similarly shaped articles, in weldable films A process and relevant machine and has for its object to provide a means for packing individual drinking straws, or similarly shaped articles, in sealed strips consisting of two "films" which can be either hot or cold welded. The stages of said process ar... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4391264 | Ball pitching apparatus A ball pitching machine having a spring powered pitching arm and having a dispensing mechanism with a de-jammer device for individually dispensing balls from a supply hopper and a ball loading device for automatically positioning a ball on the pitching ar... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4352348 | Soccer ball practice machine A soccer ball practice machine includes a pair of juxtaposed, oppositely rotating wheels for propelling a soccer ball toward a soccer player to facilitate the practice and instruction of a wide variety of soccer skills. The orientation of these wheels can... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4300703 | Distributor for pseudo-spherical objects Apparatus shown in FIG. 1a for distributing and placing pseudo-spherical objects i.e. cherries, nuts, pralines on i.e. cakes, sweets, ice creams, comprising a hopper (1) adapted to co-operate with an element imparting an oscillating movement thereto, the ... | 11/17/1981 |
| 4238051 | Dispenser for pens, pencils and other elongated objects A dispenser for pens and pencils as well as other elongated objects includes a housing in which the pens or pencils are placed. The housing has a discharge slot and contains a movable ramp which is inclined downwardly toward the discharge slot. Normally t... | 12/09/1980 |
| 4205794 | Destructive device A grinder apparatus for destroying disposable hypodermic syringes, needles, and the like having a feeder valve for delivering varying sized objects to a grinder which has a plurality of flexibly connected grinding means attached to a rotating shaft and an... | 06/03/1980 |
| 4063635 | Supply bin and feeder system combination for textile cops or pirns To permit single-basket conveyor transport of textile cops from a supply bin holding a number of cops, without damage to the thread wound on the cops upon removal of an individual cop and introduction into the conveyor, the supply bin is constructed such ... | 12/20/1977 |
