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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7269476 | Smart medicine container A medicine dispensing system is provided that comprises of a medicine container with an inbuilt pill dispensing assembly which automatically dispenses a prescribed dose of medicine at prescribed times. It alerts the patient when a dose of medicine has been dispensed... | 09/11/2007 |
| 6695698 | Electro-mechanical coin operated capsule dispensing game system A dispensing game system includes a prize capsule storage hopper above two automatic hopper loaders that replenish the game below with prize capsules as needed. Two Ferris wheels carry free swinging gondolas that receive and hold the prize capsules from t... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6543639 | Animated candy dispenser and methods An animated candy dispenser for tablet candy pieces including a magazine for storing the candy in a columnar manner, a finger actuated button mechanically linked to a dispensing assembly that includes a movable character with candy gripping extensions to ... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6223505 | Straw wrapping machine, method and product using a plastic film wrapper A machine and a method for wrapping an elongated object, such as a drinking straw, with a plastic film are disclosed. The machine has a drive for continuously advancing a thin narrow film strip from a supply roll to a wrapper loading and forming station. ... | 05/01/2001 |
| 5938072 | Rolled coin dispenser A coin roll dispenser has a number of coin magazines each filled with rolls of coins of a given denomination and removably seated within a housing. Each magazine has a motorized conveyor adapted to receive and sequentially dispense individual coin rolls t... | 08/17/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5482184 | Newspaper conveying mechanism of a newspaper vending A newspaper conveying mechanism of a newspaper vending machine, including a chain driven by a motor, a set of friction wheels and a driving claw which are locked on the chain at a certain interval. When the mechanism is placed on the surface of a pile of ... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5476191 | Package dispensing apparatus Picking apparatus for picking and dispensing plastic sheet wrapped videocassette packages onto a high speed product gathering conveyor comprises a package dispensing mechanism with a package feed magazine containing a replenishable stack of these packages... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5028229 | Apparatus for in-mold labeling of a blow molded article An in-mold labeling method and apparatus for a blow molding machine having a primary circular multiple mold path. A continuous drive closed circuit is provided by a guide track means and forms a secondary path in which a carriage or trolley carrying an ai... | 07/02/1991 |
| 4955506 | Device for the individual withdrawal of sheet-type printed products, in particular newspapers A device for individually removing newspapers from an inclined stack, including a movable carriage which is placed over the stack, the carriage having an endless conveyor carrying spaced-apart grippers, the conveyor being connected to drive mechanisms to ... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4805376 | Apparatus for ejecting cigarettes from a magazine An apparatus for ejecting a row of cigarettes from a cigarette magazine employs an endless conveyor which is actuable by means of a stepping drive. Ejector members fixed to the endless belt are moveable through the magazine case for ejecting the bottommos... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4607832 | Endless belt separator having an unsupported separating surface A delivery device in which an endless belt rotatably driven is brought into contact with the foremost sheet of a stack of sheets of paper stored in a registered relationship with each other and the sheets of paper are delivered one at a time by the endles... | 08/26/1986 |
| 4385686 | Feeding device A feeding device for controlled feeding of objects (R) from an inlet (9) to a outlet (11) by means of a feeding means consistituted by two cooperating feeding wheels (4,5). One of the feeding wheels (4) has a guiding groove (21), and the other feeding whe... | 05/31/1983 |
| 4249841 | Wire picking from a wire bundle Wires are picked from a loose bundle of wires which have been cut to length, prior to feeding to a processing machine such as a grid welding machine. The bundle is laid on a supporting table (23) so that end parts of the wires project freely beyond the ta... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4215460 | Apparatus and method for assemblying tubular sleeve preforms and containers This invention relates to apparatus and method for producing a composite container having a neck label or tubular sleeve mounted temporarily thereon adapted to be shrunken into final surface covering relation. The tubular sleeve is preformed of relatively... | 08/05/1980 |
| 4122939 | Load transfer mechanism for packaging machine A packaging machine in which the shipper package is formed from a carton blank which is wrapped around the article to be shipped. The packaging machine includes a loading station having a loading mechanism for loading an article into each compartment as t... | 10/31/1978 |
| 3977150 | Machine and method for supplying article carriers for application to groups of articles A plurality of article carriers are stacked in vertical inverted relationship in a hopper and are supported on a cantilever type support bar mounted at one end only and having its free end extending in one direction so that a plurality of carrier applicat... | 08/31/1976 |