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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7422127 | Lid dispenser A dispensing apparatus for dispensing a lid from a stack of lids each having a lid periphery includes a load platform having a main floor on which to place a stack of lids, the main floor sloping downward from an apex in a rearward direction, the load platform havin... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7364057 | Multiple magazine carrier and dispenser for firearms The multiple magazine carrier and dispenser for firearms is configured for rapidly dispensing ammunition magazines in a proper orientation to facilitate rapid reloading of a weapon. The multiple magazine carrier may be curved for either left or right hand use or may... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7249689 | Clip fastener A clip fastener (10) comprises a housing and a releasable cartridge (12) to hold a plurality of clips (20). There is a truck (14) having a pair of guide rails (50, 52) to receive the clips (20). There is a mechanism (76, ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7213724 | Table tennis ball delivery device A table tennis ball delivery device adapted to be secured to or adjacent the side of a table tennis table for directing a ball to a player upon the activation of a switch by the player. The device includes a chamber for carrying a supply of table tennis balls, a bal... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7159739 | Dispenser for discrete gravity-flowable objects A dispenser for dispensing gravity-flowing objects from a storage area to a receiving station outside the dispenser comprising an upstanding wall portion, a top surface defined by the upstanding wall having a bowl-shaped surface with dual upwardly inclined portions ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 6978536 | Spring-wire clip applicator and method, and spring wire clips useful therewith An applicator for applying, to a plurality of sheets, spring-wire clips made of bent spring-wire having first and second end sections joined together by an elastically-deformable wire juncture section. The applicator includes a holder for holding a plurality of the ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6918509 | Toy and pogo dispenser A dispenser for dispensing candy or other small objects, the dispenser having a rotatable hopper, having a hopper cavity therein, a tubular structure, having a storage portion for storing objects above the rotating hopper, a storage portion opening, a base portion, ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6849457 | Bead dispenser and bead dispenser system for immunoassay analysis A bead dispenser device useful for supplying, one at a time, beads for heterogenous immunoassay, including an inner chamber having a return spring integrally formed to the inner chamber. The bead device also includes a plunger housed within a plunger chamber. The pl... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6726058 | Dispenser for solid objects A dispenser for dispensing solid objects comprising a reservoir for retaining solid objects that is in communication with dispensing zone having a reusable opening and an ejector positioned opposite a space for retaining a solid object, wherein the dispensing zone i... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6557842 | Paper clip automatic attaching device and a document set producing machine having same A paper clip automatic attaching device includes (a) a support assembly including a set compiler tray defining (i) a sheet supporting set plane, (ii) a first open space below, and a second open above the set plane; and (b) a paper clip travel path assembl... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6547097 | Dispensing apparatus and method Dispensing apparatus is provided for dispensing items. The dispensing apparatus includes a dispensing outlet and an item holder having item holding areas and being movably disposed to position the item holding areas one at a time in sequence over the disp... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6206236 | Clip fastener A clip fastener has a housing and a magazine located in or on the housing for holding a plurality of clips. A track for receiving clips from the magazine is provided. The fastener has means for moving the clip along a pathway defined by the track, and spr... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6189731 | Device for holding and dispensing cotton swabs A device for holding and dispensing cotton swabs or the like, wherein the device includes a housing for holding the cotton swabs and the housing has at least two chambers extending parallel one behind the other for holding with play a plurality of cotton ... | 02/20/2001 |
| 5971206 | Clip dispensing device A clip dispensing device has a dispenser body and a magazine inside the body for storage of a stack of clips. The magazine includes an outlet end adjacent a front end of the body, a biased platform for bearing on the last clip in the stack of clips and ur... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5839606 | Method/apparatus for separating wire healds An arrangement (apparatus and method) for drawing a wire heald from a group of such wire healds of juxtaposed magnetic material. The method includes the steps of a) inserting a drawing pin located on a notch portion of a magnetic head into a guide hole fo... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5816441 | Tablet dispenser with child-resistant locking feature A dispenser for dispensing tablets one at a time which includes a feature which prevents children from dispensing tablets. The dispenser has a reservoir, a chamber below the reservoir in which the tablets are arranged in a single layer and a dispensing pa... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5773296 | Bead dispenser and bead dispenser system for immunoassay analysis A bead dispenser device, and a system comprising a plurality of same, useful for supplying, one at a time, beads for heterogenous immunoassay, including a track capable of storing and feeding a plurality of substantially spherical beads by effect of gravi... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5673816 | Roofing washer magazine for barbed roofing washers In a washer-dispensing machine, a chute open at a lower end receives a stack of roofing washers of a type having a central aperture to receive a fastener shank and possibly having downwardly extending barbs. A shuttle engages a single washer from the stac... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5547106 | Apparatus for dispensing objects An apparatus for dispensing objects such as billiard chalk and containers of powder comprises a housing with a front door and two hoppers in it, one hopper for a stack of pairs of chalks and one for a stack of containers of powder, a shelf located below t... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5505354 | Wearable bait and tackle box The present invention provides a fisherman's bait and tackle box which is compact and contoured to comfortably fit about the fisherman's waist when attached to a belt worn by the fisherman. The wearable box of the present invention organizes and provides ... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5503298 | Bagel dispenser An apparatus for dispensing a bagel is provided which is aesthetically pleasing, sanitary and requires a minimal amount of area. Specifically described is a dispenser comprising: a base comprising a front, a top, a right side and a left side and a pair of... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5458232 | Article lifting container An article lifting container (10) is provided which includes an outer housing (50) with a lift (100) within an interior thereof supporting a shelf (150). The lift (100) automatically adjusts a position of the shelf (150) vertically depending on a weight o... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5445294 | Method for automatic dispensing of articles stored in a cabinet A mechanical system opens a selected drawer in a multiple-drawer cabinet. The drawers are arranged in rows and columns. A selected drawer is unlatched by moving a rod which has protruding fingers, only one of which is positioned to engage a latch in a col... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5395146 | Golf ball pick-up device A golf ball pick-up device mainly including a casing with an open bottom, an upper transmission tube inserted into the casing, a guiding cylinder fitted over the upper transmission tube, a seat engaged with a lower end of the guiding cylinder and fixedly ... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5392951 | Drawer operating system A mechanical system opens a selected drawer in a multiple-drawer cabinet. The drawers are arranged in rows and columns. A selected drawer is unlatched by moving a rod which has protruding fingers, only one of which is positioned to engage a latch in a col... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5381925 | Stirrer/straw dispenser A dispenser for containing and dispensing elongated articles such as coffee stirrers, straws and the like is provided and presents an inclined wall therein including upper and lower end portions against and downwardly along which articles to be dispensed ... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5351854 | Package dispensing device An apparatus for dispensing uniformly sized packages is disclosed. The apparatus includes a storage portion having consecutive slots for storing uniformly sized packages vertically within each slot. The packages fall from the slots into a dispensing porti... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5335826 | Apparatus for feeding nuts or the like A nut feeding apparatus which can surely and easily feed nuts and the like, temporarily supported in a conductor cylinder, to an underlying support member one by one, without scratching them by the downward stress or the like of a plunger. A feeder openin... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5318196 | Coffee stirrer dispenser A dispenser for containing and dispensing elongated articles such as coffee stirrers is provided and presents an inclined wall therein including upper and lower end portions against and downwardly along which articles to be dispensed rest and may move by ... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5287992 | Method and apparatus for applying herbicide and the like to trees A method for treating a tree comprises the steps of punching at least one hole in a trunk of a tree and injecting an individual chemical pellet directly into the at least one hole. The chemical pellet dissolves in and mixes with sap of the tree to treat t... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5263214 | Restraint kit apparatus A restraint kit includes a dispensing housing having a clip dispenser therewithin, wherein the dispensing housing is arranged for the selective dispensing of restraint web segments therefrom cooperative with one of a plurality of clip members dispensed fr... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5259531 | Device for storing and dispensing pills A hollow vertical cylinder has a closed vertical side wall and closed upper and lower ends. The cylinder has an upper region for receiving pills and a lower region from which pills are dispensed. A portion of the upper region is removable. The lower regio... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5240143 | Pencil vending machine A mechanical vending system for vending long cylindrical objects such as pencils or the like. The system comprises a cabinet housing the unvended pencils and a coin receptor mechanism for receiving the coins and vending one pencil at a time. The coins are... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5195653 | Slide mounter with improved slide mount advance An improved slide mount advance mechanism advances a slide mount to an insertion station of a slide mounting apparatus, where the slide mount receives a film transparency to form a photographic slide. The mechanism includes a slide ejector designed to con... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5172830 | Cottonbud dispenser A cottonbud dispenser consisting of a base, a plurality of long coiled springs, pushing blocks to push said springs, a position block, a fixing plate, a stop plate and a transparent case body storing cottonbuds, any of said pushing blocks below the base b... | 12/22/1992 |
| 5131565 | Tongue depressor dispenser A tongue depressor dispenser having a support base to which an upper cover detachably mounts. A dispenser assembly mounts to the support base. The dispenser assembly includes an ejector assembly that is movable to dispense a single tongue depressor at a t... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5104000 | Permanent wave end paper dispenser A permanent wave end paper dispenser allows a beauty operator to dispense permanent wave end papers from a housing in a one at a time manner, utilizing only one hand. The dispenser includes a rectangular housing with an inclined ramp disposed adjacent a p... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5104001 | Dispenser for rolls of toilet paper This invention relates to a dispenser for toilet paper and consists of a tube adapted to hold a stack of rolls, the tube being open at its upper end for loading and closed at its lower end by an end wall. A discharge opening is formed in the tube just abo... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5065897 | Universal dispensing apparatus for stacked articles A dispensing device is provided for dispensing a plurality of articles such as cigarette boxes. The device includes two levels of individual dispensing modules. Each dispensing module includes a plurality of vertical stack holders mounted on a support pla... | 11/19/1991 |
| 5056684 | Roofing washer-dispensing machine A roofing washer-dispensing machine having improved features is disclosed. A novel magazine comprises a substantially box-like container with a substantially open face, for housing a stack of circular roofing washers having inserts, and a substantially ri... | 10/15/1991 |