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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7743943 | Devices useful in system and method for dispensing prescriptions An automated method for dispensing pharmaceuticals, particularly tablets and capsules, and other small discrete objects, includes: receiving prescription information, selecting a container, labeling the container, dispensing the tablets or capsules into the labeled ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7527169 | Gripper device A gripper device for displacing at least one single unit of consumer packages comprising gripper blades movable in rotating and translating manner with control members accommodated in housing, gripper members engage units on two opposite longitudinal sides after clo... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7162963 | Adjustable singulating brush assembly and method of singulating seeds An adjustable singulating brush assembly for a seed meter and method to improve seed singulation of a seed meter. The assembly includes a carrier and a brush selectively adjustably moveable with respect to the carrier. The method to improve seed singulation of a see... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7086269 | Apparatus and method for testing seed singulation of a seed meter An apparatus and method of testing seed singulation of a seed meter. The apparatus includes a frame which supports the seed meter to be tested above a track within which is disposed a continuous flighted belt. A drive system is provided to drive the flighted belt an... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7048183 | RFID rag and method of user verification An identification tag (100) facilitates use of a secure computer system (300). The tag (100) is adapted to be worn on a user's wrist and includes an identification and registration circuit (102) that includes an identification component (... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6905046 | Vial gripping mechanism for automatic medicament dispensing machine A vial gripping mechanism (10) includes a pivotally mounted swing arm (26). A sensor receiving array (44) is mounted to a sensor end (34) on an inward edge (46) of the arm (26). A channel (38) protecting a cable (6... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6578734 | Vial gripping mechanism for automatic medicament dispensing machine A vial gripping mechanism (10) includes a pivotally mounted swing arm (26). A sensor receiving array (44) is mounted to a sensor end (34) on an inward edge (46) of the arm (26). A channel (38) protecting a cable (64) follows an outside edge (42) from the ... | 06/17/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6276564 | Sorting magazine for the supply of loose small parts The sorting magazine serves for the supply of loose small parts (1) such as rivets, eyes, press fasteners and so forth. It includes a trough-shaped storage container (2) which has a front wall (3) and a magazine base plate (4), with a filling opening (5) ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 5873488 | Vial gripper mechanism In an automatic medicament dispensing machine, a vial gripper mechanism includes a rotatable first jaw and a second jaw coupled with the output shaft of a jaw motor. In an open position, the jaws are spaced for receiving a medicament vial therebetween. Ac... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5325578 | Apparatus and method for automatically installing clamps A method and apparatus for automatically installing a clamp made from a flat blank on an object to be fastened thereby, in which individual blanks are separated from a supply of such blanks, are fed as individual blanks to a deformation station where the ... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5169283 | Basket denester A stack of baskets carrying frozen chickens or the like are mounted on a dolly which is wheeled into a denester having spaced apart vertical side walls. Each of the side walls carries a vertically moving conveyor having spaced hooks adapted to be moved in... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5160235 | Apparatus for relocating arranged plants To relocate cutlings (22) contained in plant boxes (20), an endless transport element (2) with grippers (9) is used, which grip on a pick-up position (23) the plants (22) at their stems and transport these to an unload position comprising a direction chan... | 11/03/1992 |
| 4688735 | Paper tube supply system A system for automatically supplying tapered paper tubes to an automatic winder which includes a number of winding units. The system includes a paper tube discharging device which provide a stock section for retaining tapered tubes in heaped up condition ... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4566244 | Paper sheet grip and transfer apparatus A paper sheet grip and transport apparatus for a counting and half-wrapping device comprising a stacker for accommodating a batch of paper sheets supplied thereto and for receiving them in the state of a bundle and a half wrapper for the bundle of paper s... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4104975 | Transplanting apparatus Apparatus for introducing into a prepared field surface a plurality of seedling bodies each of which includes a small plant that is growing in a root supporting medium. A conveyor onto which the seedling bodies are placed and a mechanism for receiving the... | 08/08/1978 |
