Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7980418 | Method and system for accomplishing product detection The present invention provides for a vending system wherein a monitoring system verifies that a product ordered by a vending customer is actually delivered through a delivery area to the customer. If the product ordered is unavailable either because of an out of sto... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7286901 | Method and system for accomplishing product detection The present invention provides for a vending system wherein a monitoring system verifies that a product ordered by a vending customer is actually delivered through a delivery area to the customer. If the product ordered is unavailable either because of an out of sto... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7258247 | Automated condiment dispensing system An automated system for dispensing condiment packets includes a magazine for storing a stack of condiment packets and a dispenser for metering out those condiment packets. Multiple magazines and dispensers can be combined in a single condiment delivery assembly, the... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7191915 | Optical vend-sensing system for control of vending machine For ensuring that a vending machine motor will continue to operate until a product has descended through a vending space or an established time interval has elapsed, an optical beam is established across the vend space through which a product must drop. A change in ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7172116 | Automatic dispensing machine of cards and card like goods Dispensing more than one card or card like good is prevented to prevent issuing a duplicate with an automatic dispensing machine of card or card like good having a table which supports the piled up card or card like good. A sucking device is located over the table a... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7140607 | Cash dispensing automated banking machine with note unstacking and validation An automated banking machine (10) includes a user interface (15). The user interface includes a card reader (16), receipt printer opening (30), cash dispensing opening (38) and deposit accepting opening (40). A stack of note... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7086585 | Media dispenser apparatus A media dispenser comprises: a casing separatably installed on a mounting portion of a media dispenser having an eject hole through which media is ejected, and including a media receipt portion on which the media ejected from the eject hole is mounted and an opening... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7083088 | Method and apparatus for dispensing flexible cards A support unit supports a plurality of flexible cards arranged in a stack. A pickup unit adjacent to the stack of flexible cards attracts a first card from the stack of cards, bending the flexible card. A transporting unit adjacent to the pickup unit receives and mo... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7073683 | Apparatus and method for determining completion of a requested transaction in a vending machine A sensor for detecting and signaling whether a requested product is successfully vended is placed in a vending machine. The sensor determines whether a requested product passes through a defined “vend area” within a predetermined time interval after the customer... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7055817 | Friction wheel separator for separating sheetlike items A friction wheel singler is proposed for singling sheet material, in particular bank notes, comprising sheet magazine 5 for receiving stack of sheets 1, singling cylinder 2 having one or more friction elements 4 for contacting and conveyi... | 06/06/2006 |
| 6938896 | Automatic card dispensing unit with display capability An automatic card dispenser unit for displaying and dispensing cards includes a storage housing for storing an array of cards. A holding member operatively positions a lower most card at a load station in a vertical alignment for display. A controller unit can recei... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6840400 | Media dispenser module and media dispenser apparatus having the same A media dispenser module includes: a casing mounted in a mounting unit of a media dispenser apparatus and having an opening accessible from outside and a door for opening and closing the opening; a media mounting unit installed inside the casing so that media is dro... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6794634 | Optical vend-sensing system for control of vending machine For ensuring that a vending machine motor will continue to operate until a product has descended through a vending space or an established time interval has elapsed, an optical beam is established across the vend space through which a product must drop. A change in ... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6772906 | Apparatus and method for vending from a vending machine An apparatus and method for increasing assurance a product has been vended upon an authorized product selection. The method comprises monitoring if a product has been vended during a first vend cycle and if not, commencing a second vend cycle, and stopping a second ... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6732884 | Bulk medication dispenser and monitoring device A medication dispensing system comprising an on-site medication dispensing unit and a central monitoring facility. The on-site medication dispensing unit holds bulk amounts of medication in a plurality of separate receptacles from which it selects a desired medicati... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6732014 | System for accomplishing product detection The present invention provides for a vending system wherein a monitoring system verifies that a product ordered by a vending customer is actually delivered through a delivery area to the customer. If the product ordered is unavailable either because of an out of sto... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6708079 | Optical vend-sensing system for control of vending machine An optical vend-sensing system for reliably detecting the dispensing of an article, is presented. The system includes two parallel reflecting surfaces, each mounted at opposite sides of a vend space through which the article falls upon selection by a consumer. An em... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6629625 | Reflector and anti-fog film in an optical sensor system A dispensed product detection system and method for use in a refrigerated vending machine utilizing an optical light beam crossing the path through which a dispensed product travels. An optical emitter transmits a light beam through at least one layer of ... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6604652 | Cigarette vending machine The invention relates to a cigarette vending machine, especially for installing in the checkout area of a market or the like, comprising a housing (12) wherein several shafts (16) are located (16). Said shafts accommodate columns of cigarette packs (18) w... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6550760 | Spring nail for a sheet feeding device Spring nail (32, 34, 72, 96) for a sheet feeding device (10). The spring nail (32, 34, 72, 96) has a mounting end (36, 74) for attaching to the sheet feeding device (10) and a free end (38, 78) opposite the mounting end (36, 74), the free end (38, 78) bei... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6478185 | Tablet vessel feed apparatus The present invention provides a tablet vessel feed apparatus comprising a stock container for storing a plurality of tablet vessels, a vessel takeout section for taking out the tablet vessels from the stock container, and a conveyor for conveying the tab... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6349848 | Medicine supply apparatus There is disclosed a medicine supply apparatus which can improve the dispensing operation efficiency. The medicine supply apparatus is constituted by storing a plurality of tablet cases in a main body case storage part, each tablet case comprising a conta... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6273413 | Automated banking machine with sheet directing apparatus An automated banking machine (10) includes a user interface (12) including an opening (20) for users to deliver and receive individual sheets and stacks of sheets to and from the machine. The machine includes a sheet handling mechanism therein including a... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6170929 | Automated medication-dispensing cart An automated medication-dispensing cart includes a closed cart housing and a plurality of medication-containing bins which extend for substantially the length of the cart and which are supported within the cart housing. The support structure includes two ... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6056150 | Apparatus for dispensing tickets, cards and the like from a stack An apparatus for dispensing articles such as tickets and cards includes a cabinet. A plurality of article dispensing assemblies are disposed inside the cabinet. Each article dispensing assembly includes a base and a frame for enclosing the articles to be ... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6029971 | Sheet feeding apparatus A belt displacement operation is periodically carried by the pick mechanism 11 of a sheet feeding apparatus, when the number of sheets fed has reaches a predetermined value. The motor 34 is driven in reverse for a predetermined time, so as to cause rotati... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5923262 | Adaptive methods of determining blockage in an air seeder blockage monitoring system Computer implemented methods for determining blocked and partially blocked conditions in the flow of particulate matter in an agricultural air seeding system are disclosed which automatically adapt for changes in seed type, seed density, fan rate or seed ... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5913399 | Coin handling mechanism for supplying coins to coin game machines and collecting coins therefrom and gaming facility having the same A gaming facility having a plurality of coin game machines (100) and a coin handling mechanism (200) for supplying coins to the coin game machines and collecting coins therefrom is disclosed. The coin handling mechanism comprises a coin collection transpo... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5553696 | Security device for bill changers A security device for a bill changer that greatly reduces the risk of the coinage within the changer from being robbed. The security device includes a support having a bill insertion slot therethrough. The support is adapted to be securely attached to a f... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5449229 | Tambour door customer access port A Customer Access Port (CAP) for an automated storage library subsystem which comprises two sliding doors to control operator access to the library. A magazine adapted to hold several storage media cartridges is positioned inside the storage library acces... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5412521 | Gate mechanism for a data cartridge library system Gate mechanism for a data cartridge library system including an upstanding lever arm having a laterally extending tab formed at its upper end and a generally Z-shaped member extending from its lower end, the distal end segment of the Z-shaped member formi... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5366110 | Game token dispenser A game token dispenser is equipped with a token hopper for dispensing, to a token receiving port, a predetermined number of tokens supplied from a token reservoir. The token hopper is divided into a sequentially operating preliminary hopper and a dispensi... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5360134 | Multiple-product merchandising machine A multiple-product merchandising machine having a cylindrical drum mounted within a cabinet. The drum is divided into a plurality of horizontal shelves each of which is divided by a plurality of vertical walls into separate compartments from which the pro... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5335816 | Interactive medication delivery system for medication prepackaged in blister packs A dispensing device has a storage compartment for holding one or more of the medication containers. The compartment has an opening. A push member moves in a path aligned with the opening between a first position, spaced from the opening, and a second posi... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5285926 | Multiple-product merchandising machine A multiple-product merchandising machine having a cylindrical drum mounted within a cabinet. The drum is divided into a plurality of horizontal shelves each of which is divided by a plurality of vertical walls into separate compartments from which the pro... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5282454 | Jam-free bulk loader for a paintball gun An essentially jam-free bulk loader for a semi-automatic paintball gun includes a storage housing positionable above the gun infeed opening and adapted to hold a quantity of paintballs to be gravity fed to and fired by the gun. Extending downwardly from a... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5238143 | Apparatus for dispensing flat articles An envelope dispensing module (10) for use in an ATM includes feed belts (26) for feeding the lowermost envelope (18') of a stack of envelopes (18) along a feed path (49) towards an exit slot (50). Pulse generating apparatus (54) includes a roller (62) wh... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5177470 | Sensor device for particles in an air stream The blockage module is designed to be mounted on air seeder seeding equipment. Piezoelectric sensors extending into the flow tubes monitor flow by producing high frequency ringing signals when struck by seeds. During a calibration step, the module will mo... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5169027 | Multiple-product merchandising machine A multiple-product merchandising machine having a cylindrical drum mounted within a cabinet. The drum is divided into a plurality of horizontal shelves each of which is divided by a plurality of vertical walls into separate compartments from which the pro... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5141127 | Method and apparatus for identifying and indicating the content of document canisters Apparatus for identifying and indicating the content of document canisters such as those used to hold supplies of documents in Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), includes a canister (10) holding a stack of documents (30) and having a face plate (24). Face ... | 08/25/1992 |
