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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8070013 | Cutlery utensil dispensing apparatus and method A cutlery utensil dispenser has a dispensing tray with a floor and a region housing a cutlery utensil. The cutlery utensil has first and second portions and is moved by an engagement portion of an actuator from a first orientation to a second orientation. In the fir... | 12/06/2011 |
| 7669732 | Cup lid dispenser A cup lid dispenser is characterized by a cylindrical housing for containing a stack of relatively flexible cup lids in vertical orientation with a lip of the bottommost lid supported at points around its circumference on a plurality of shelves within and around a b... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7320413 | Self-closing dispensing container A disposable container for holding and dispensing one oral care, candy and/or medicinal strip at a time, without the need to open the package or to insert one's dirty fingers into the package, thereby eliminating the contamination of the remaining strips, and allowi... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7311222 | Drug dispenser A drug dispenser which can easily align drugs when filling it with the drugs. In a drug dispenser in which a lowermost drug of a plurality of drugs (100) stacked in a vertical direction and contained in a drug case (1) is pushed out in a horizontal dir... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7232041 | Battery dispenser and refill A battery dispenser and a refill for a battery dispenser are provided. In one embodiment the battery dispenser includes a housing that has an opening, a landing, and a push element capable of advancing batteries from inside the housing to the landing external to the... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7216776 | Child-resistant pill dispenser A child-resistant dispenser for dispensing items, including a chassis (12) having a reservoir (40) for holding items (16) and a conveyor (14) including a conveyor pocket (18) for receiving an item (16a). The conveyor ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7178691 | Toilet paper storage and dispenser container A toilet paper storage and dispenser container in which to store and manually dispense rolls of toilet paper. The container comprises a convex container front in the form of a slidable face plate and a removable lid, an access door in which to extract a roll and a f... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7168616 | Bank card with lottery feature A method of purchasing goods and services in combination with a gaming feature is described. Consumers are provided with a bank card, which is used to identify consumers, extend credit to them and communicate purchasing data to a centralized location. A pool of fund... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7108175 | Cash dispensing automated banking machine deposit accepting system and method An automated banking machine includes a mechanism for accepting deposited items. Deposited items may be provided to the machine in envelopes which are first passed to a user from an envelope storage area (132) in the machine through a transport (124) a... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7103438 | System and method for searching and verifying documents in a document processing device A method of processing barcoded tickets in a document processing device including receiving a stack of barcoded tickets in an input receptacle of a document processing device. Each barcoded ticket includes a document-identifier or ticket number that identifies the b... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7066351 | Sanitized dispensing mechanism A sanitized dispensing mechanism mounted to a vending machine includes a receptacle, a barrier and an actuating device. The receptacle has an interior chamber and a rear opening behind the interior chamber through which an item discharged from an exterior opening of... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7063234 | Meter strip dispenser assembly The present invention is directed to diagnostic kits that house and deliver a carrier for an analyte, such as a test strip carrying an blood glucose analyte used by persons afflicted with diabetes in order to determine their blood glucose levels. ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7055718 | Ticket dispenser drawer A drawer for the storage, display, and dispensing apparatus for dispensing tickets of various sizes without the use of moving parts. The dispensing apparatus includes a bin for storing tickets and a dispensing slot utilizing tension arms to guide and control the dis... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7014065 | Dispenser for series-connected tickets An improved dispenser for displaying and dispensing lottery tickets utilizes a dispensing slot with tension arms to provide tension to tickets of varying thicknesses. The dispensing slot is cut into a door at an end of a box-like structure, which holds the tickets. ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6923445 | Gaming ticket sets having advertising by multiple advertisers with selectable variable advertiser exposure frequency Apparatus, systems and methods involving producing and distributing chance tickets, such as pull-tab tickets, scratch-off tickets, and folded tickets which have symbol sets used to determine whether the ticket has a winning symbol set or sets versus non-winning symb... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6889849 | Dual cash box note and ticket validator A bill acceptor system for accepting bills, vouchers, scrip, tickets and/or currency into an electronic gaming machine or alternative type of customer service device. The system includes a validator assembly capable of identifying acceptable notes and discriminating... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6811054 | Dosing spoon for micro-tablets A dosing spoon for microtablets is described for which the lower part (1) of the spoon consists of an even polygone which possesses a border (2) on all sides with exception of one side and whereby the polygone has a number of individual recesses (3 | 11/02/2004 |
| 6796455 | Blade dispenser assembly A blade dispenser assembly includes a housing and an integrally formed shuttle mechanism which functions to dispense one blade at a time from the bottom of a stack of blades held within the housing. The shuttle mechanism is configured to engage a bottommost blade in... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6612463 | Toothpicks dispenser A toothpicks dispenser is made up of a top cover, a box embodiment, a bottom board, a holder plate, a pair of pivotal dispensing plane units jointly engaged with the holder plate by a shaft pin and retractably operable by a bias spring. The holder plate a... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6578735 | Method and an apparatus for promoting a product or brand A method of promoting a product or a brand in a retail store, or of promoting customer loyalty, comprises the steps of analyzing data determined at a point of sale relating to purchases by a customer, e.g. data from a bar-code scanner, to determine whethe... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6510963 | Novelty dispenser A novelty dispenser, in particular a novelty dispenser for dispensing small sweets such as jelly beans or chocolate drops. The dispenser comprises a body providing a reservoir for articles to be dispensed through an outlet formed therein. It also comprise... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6508380 | Dispenser for the dispensing elements in strips A dispenser (1) for dispensing strip elements (4), having a supply chamber (3) for accommodating a strip-element stack (St), and having a discharging pusher (14) with a nose (16) for interacting with a first strip element (4') of the strip-element stack (... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6478188 | Filter dispenser A filter dispenser is disclosed. The dispenser comprises a filter holder for horizontally holding a multiplicity of nested filters, an extractor positioned above the filter holder having a tacky material on its lower surface, and a resilient bridge connec... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6427867 | Sewing pin dispensing device A sewing pin dispensing device for placing the head of a stick pin in an upright position. The sewing pin dispensing device includes a housing. A cavity is in the housing. A first opening in the housing allows for the entry of pins to be dispensed into th... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6425495 | Article dispensing apparatus An article dispensing apparatus with a novel structure is provided for lifting and taking out articles such as candies, stored in a stack within a case body, one by one from the top one. The article dispensing apparatus has a case body for storing article... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6289261 | Gaming machine payout dispensing system and method In a system and method for a payout in the form of paper tokens from a gaming machine, the system includes a hopper for dispensing the paper tokens, a cassette for containing the paper tokens, and software for controlling the operations of the payout of t... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6253669 | Host dispenser The disclosed invention provides a Host dispenser, which substantially eliminates the possibility of spreading unwanted germs amongst the members of a church congregation. The disclosed apparatus allows a single Host to be dispensed to a person. The Host ... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6128550 | Gaming machine payout dispensing system and method In a system and method for a payout in the form of paper tokens from a gaming machine, the system includes a hopper for dispensing the paper tokens, a cassette for containing the paper tokens, and software for controlling the operations of the payout of t... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6125082 | Timed cigarette dispenser A timed cigarette dispenser for limiting the number of cigarettes available to a smoker to assist the smoker in reducing the number of cigarettes smoked over an interval of time, and/or to assist the smoker in quitting smoking. The dispenser includes a ho... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6053358 | Lottery machine preventing lotteries from pulling out illegally A lottery machine preventing lotteries from drawing out illegally mainly includes a base, a lottery moving device, a face plate and a coil spring. A micro switch is provided on one of two parallel side plates of the base, and held in ON condition by a sto... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6036052 | Roller mechanism for a lottery ticket machine A roller mechanism for a lottery ticket machine includes a face plate, a compartment, a roller unit, two position hook bars, a gear unit, and a motor device. The roller unit has a main and a subordinate rollers both provided with a pattern. The motor has ... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6014594 | Gaming machine payout dispensing system with on escrow area and locks In a system and method for a payout in the form of paper tokens from a gaming machine, the system includes a hopper for dispensing the paper tokens, a cassette for containing the paper tokens, and software for controlling the operations of the payout of t... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5960989 | Lid dispenser with dial adjustment and pivoting access door The lid dispenser of the present invention has four rods which extend from the front to the rear and which support and guide the lids. The rods are connected at the front to individual lid dispensing pagers, and are supported at the rear in arcuate tracks... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5803308 | Burglarproof device for lottery ticket dispenser A burglarproof lottery ticket dispenser includes a triggering element having a handle. The triggering element is mounted on a slide shaft such that the handle is capable of locating or actuating a drive shaft. The dispenser further includes a driven shaft... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5765721 | Note pad single sheet dispenser A note pad dispenser arranged to selectively lift a single web of an underlying note pad is provided, with the note pad having a reusable adhesive strip of each leaf of the note pad, with each adhesive strip arranged in a superimposed orientation relative... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5673815 | Material dispenser A material dispenser includes a first panel for supporting pieces of material, and a second panel appended to the first panel. The second panel is formed to include a material-dispensing aperture to permit a piece of material to pass through the second pa... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5322190 | Device for dispensing tissue paper A tissue dispenser for dispensing a single tissue at one time includes a dispenser box having a support back on one end, a movable drawer in said dispenser box for holding tissues, a pivotable arm mounted by a first end to said support back and biased in ... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5275306 | Literature dispensing mechanism A display apparatus is disclosed herein for dispensing a quantity of literature sheets or brochures stored in an ordered stack so that a portion of the uppermost piece of literature is visually displayed. Mechanism is provided for advancing the stack of l... | 01/04/1994 |
| 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 |
| 5150818 | Literature dispensing apparatus A display apparatus is disclosed herein for storing a quantity of literature sheets or brochures in an ordered stack so that the uppermost piece of literature is visually displayed. Means are provided for advancing the stack of literature within a housing... | 09/29/1992 |
