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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7644837 | Medicine supply apparatus An object of a medicine supply apparatus which fills medicine bottles with medicines from a plurality of tablet cases is to improve a medicine filling performance and remove restrictions on the apparatus, and the apparatus comprises: a plurality of tablet cases whic... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7604145 | Drive system for a vending machine dispensing assembly A vending machine includes first and second release mechanisms mounted to front portions of adjacent shelf dividers extending along a product shelf and establishing a product queue. A product transport system is arranged in the cabinet to carry a selected product co... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7584868 | Vending machine for an aircraft Nowadays on commercial aircrafts, meals and beverages are usually served by the on-board personnel on trays that are transported to the respective row of seats with the aid of trolleys. The present application describes a vending machine that comprises a magazine an... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7377401 | Dispenser mechanism for dispensing multiple products The present invention is directed towards improved dispenser mechanisms that can dispense two or more products contained in one or more storage containers. In one embodiment, the dispenser mechanism includes a plate having a first plurality of dispensing apertures p... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7273157 | Article feeder A screw feeder adapted for rapid changeover of screw types. The feeder has a collator section having a floor with slots to collate random screws into rows and an enclosure about the floor for retaining random screws on the floor. The screws are collated by tilting t... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7228989 | High efficiency beverage vending machine The invention provides a vending machine for cooling food products. The vending machine includes a housing defining an interior. The vending machine also includes a plurality of holding members substantially thermally isolated from one another and disposed in the in... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7018164 | Auxiliary pipe loading device A pipe handling device with an auxiliary pipe loading device for use with a horizontal boring machine is disclosed. The auxiliary pipe loading device includes an auxiliary pipe receiving member that is connected to a pipe handling assembly at a location remote from ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6682289 | Dispensing apparatus and method of using same A vending machine for vending articles, most notably beverage or food containers. More particularly, the present invention relates to a vending machine having a cabinet with a plurality of vertically spaced shelves, and an "X-Y" picker assembly for receiv... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6623357 | Paper token and complementary coupon dispenser An electronic gambling unit for allowing a user to play a gambling game, and for dispensing at least one of a plurality of types of value to the user based on user preference information at the conclusion of the gambling game, may generally include a disp... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6497083 | Packaging apparatus Apparatus for feeding items of pharmaceutical product to pockets in a continuously travelling web for the production of blister packs has a plurality of product delivery chutes mounted on a moving carriage having delivery gates for releasing product from ... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6264063 | Orientation maintained fastener delivery system and method An orientation maintained fastener delivery system (10) includes an escapement (14), a transfer system (16), and an injector (18). The escapement (14) regulates the flow of fasteners (20) through the orientation maintained fastener delivery system (10). T... | 07/24/2001 |
| 5924595 | Vending machine rotor A vending machine rotor is provided which allows for the holding and subsequent dispensing of two or more bottles from a vending machine. The vending machine rotor provides a reservoir which comprises at least two bottle locations in which bottles may be ... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5904467 | Automatic parts feeding system An automatic parts feeding system specifically adapted to feed parts having a step difference in shape over any one direction or any one side includes a loading device for receiving parts of this shape. The loading device is located above a base plate hav... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5829632 | Flexible band pharmaceutical product feeder gate assembly A gate assembly, for a dedicated feeder sub-system in a pharmaceutical product packaging system, includes a flexible gating structure. Product feed tubes leading from a product bin to a packaging web loading station carry slots in which flexible bands ope... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5579951 | Apparatus for orienting and loading solid compact medicaments An apparatus (10) for orienting and loading solid compact medicaments, such as solid compact medicaments (A), into a carrier device (C) comprises a feeder (12) having a plurality of elongated first channels (20) through which the solid compact medicaments... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5554197 | Hair dying system and methods for accurately blending and developing hair dye The present invention relates to methods and systems for hair dying. The system includes at least two reservoirs containing different hair dying components in predetermined concentrations, the containers including outlets having cross-sectional areas whic... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5465868 | Automatic system for selecting and feeding preoriented rivets to riveting machines The system includes a buffer magazine connected to each riveting machine and comprising a bundle of tubes, each of which contains a certain amount of preoriented rivets or like fasteners deliverable one-by-one to the riveting machine, and a stationary mai... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5415321 | Feeder for pharmaceutical thermoform packaging machines An apparatus for feeding a plurality of pharmaceutical product simultaneously onto a matrix of formed blister webbing is provided. The dedicated feeder structure is held within a housing which incorporates a plurality of hanger plates for easy manual exch... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5402911 | Reconfigurable article dispenser A multi-station article dispensing apparatus for use in a "merchandiser" game of skill or chance has a plurality of delivery/display stations juxtaposed along an axle. Each station includes a cradle wheel rotating freely about the axle and loaded from a g... | 04/04/1995 |
| 5207350 | System for loading semiconductor package tester An apparatus for loading devices into a semiconductor tester is disclosed. The tester has an input track for accepting devices. The apparatus includes a number of elongated tracks for holding a plurality of semiconductor devices. Each elongated track has ... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5044518 | Seeding device A seed container has a plurality of partition plates for dividing the conner into a plurality of spaces and a brush provided in each space in parallel with the partition plate. A cell plate having a plurality of cells is provided in a bottom of the seed ... | 09/03/1991 |
| 4997106 | Storage magazine and feed system for vending cylindrical articles A storage magazine for use in coin operated automatic vending machines composed of a plurality of side-by-side vertical storage columns or magazine sections, each having at least two back-to-back aligned serpentine tracks which store a plurality of cylind... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4934578 | Apparatus for mounting and/or soldering or cementing electronic components on printed circuit boards In an apparatus for mounting and/or soldering or cementing electronic components, in particular SMD components, on printed circuit boards, haing a first carrier for at least one circuit board and a second carrier for the component, the first and second ca... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4844686 | Collating apparatus In a stacking apparatus of the type having tines for pushing one workpiece out of each of the bottoms of a plurality of aligned reservoirs, an improvement is disclosed which comprises a ramp adjacent to the reservoirs and inclined with respect to the bott... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4824306 | Collating apparatus and method In a stacking apparatus of the type having tines for pushing one workpiece each out of the bottoms of a plurality of aligned reservoirs, an improvement is disclosed which comprises a ramp adjacent to the reservoirs and inclined with respect to the bottom ... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4584744 | Apparatus for assembling and forming parts An assembly machine is disclosed in which a slug of one metal is inserted and staked in a cup formed of another metal. During the staking operation, the shape of the slug and the cup is altered by forming loads thereon. Cups are fed to an assembly positio... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4238025 | Device for replacing defective articles The device for automatically replacing defective cigarette packets discarded from a feeding line on which the packets advance in a single row comprises a pair of gravity-feed reserve hoppers, containing each a stack of reserve packets, and a transferring ... | 12/09/1980 |
| 4101284 | Multiple bead dispenser for diagnostic assay This invention relates to an apparatus which is useful for dispensing simultaneously a plurality of beads into any multi-well container suitable for the performance of diagnostic assays.... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4033441 | Merging or blending techniques for small parts The invention relates to methods and means for combining two merging streams of small parts having heads and shanks comprising progressing each of the streams in the same general direction and with the heads aligned and the shanks transverse to the direct... | 07/05/1977 |
