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7896037 Water cooler caddy  
A water cooler caddy device for use in conjunction with a water cooler or other beverage dispenser. The water cooler caddy has an arcuate inner surface as an interface with the water bottle and is...
7308916 Beverage dispenser  
A beverage dispenser operates a cup holder to advance a cup holding portion holding a cup in which a beverage is filled from an inside of a cup port to an outside thereof to locate it above a cup...
7207359 Apparatus and method for transporting containers within a packaging system  
A method of transporting containers from a first station to a second station within a container filling machine. Each container defines opposing first and second end sections, with the second end...
7100796 Apparatus for dispensing vials  
An apparatus (100) for guiding the movement of a flanged vial (10) during an automated process to prevent the flange (50) from disrupting the movement of the vial (10) during the process. The...
6742553 Cup-type beverage vending machine  
In a cup-type beverage vending machine, during conveyance of a beverage-filled cup to a product taking-out position and when the cup does not reach the product taking-out position, a pivot arm is...
6688460 Cup transfer device for vending machine  
A cup transfer device of a vending machine can prevent the cup transfer device, peripheral objects or the device motor from being damaged, even when an abnormal case is encountered, thereby...
6648025 Beverage dispense  
Apparatus for dispensing beverage, such as beer, which forms a head, comprises a rotatable table on which a drinking vessel is supported, and a nozzle which is arranged to direct a stream of...
6397904 Cup type automatic vending machine  
A link (20) is moved to a perpendicular (upper) direction based on a driving force F and a pin (22) provided on a link (16A) is moved along a guide groove (23) to a position shown in FIG. 5. Since...
6213174 Portioning of flowable products  
This invention is directed to methods, procedures and apparatus for controlling the portioning of flowable materials, particularly soft serve frozen confections, though also including other...
6135169 Automatic cupped drinks dispenser  
The dispenser comprises a plurality of delivery stations (20a-20b, 30) for the constituent substances of the drink, a delivery station (40) for empty cups, a location (10) for release of the drink...
5400838 Automatic packaging method and apparatus  
An automatic packaging machine is provided which has a chute for directing objects such as cooked french fries into the interior of a rotatable loading drum. The drum is rotated by a motor about a...
5394911 Automatic dispenser for doughy food products  
An automatic dispenser for doughy food products, particularly for shop windows displaying ice cream products to be dispensed. The dispenser includes a taking unit which is movable with respect to...
5390711 Method and apparatus for making snow cones  
Improvements in a snow cone making machine including a retaining collar which interacts with a cone cup to prevent relative movement with respect to each other; an automatic cone cup dispenser...
5353850 Apparatus for distributedly filling particulate or granular material into containers  
An apparatus for distributedly filling a particulate or granular material into containers has an intermittently driven container conveyor, and a continuously driven particulate or granular material...
5267590 Container filler, especially for ballast having contoured sweep for arraying containers  
Open containers having uniform dimensions are handled in a group for loading of ballast and/or for filling with container contents prior to sealing. The containers are provided upright on a...
5261467 Cup type automatic vending machine  
Cups stored in the automatic vending machine are released and dropped from a cup supply unit to a cup holding unit one at a time and drink is injected thereinto as selected by a customer. The cup...
5246047 Nozzle for dispensing products  
A nozzle for dispensing products, including viscous products, in a container has a longitudinally extending tube mounted to a frame in which the tube is reciprocated vertically in its longitudinal...
5190086 Medicament supply apparatus for use in elution testing device  
An apparatus for automatically supplying a medicament into a container comprising a mechanism having a plurality of separate small medicament cups each containing a medicament so that the...
5159962 Container filling machine, particularly for concentrated liquid pigment  
A simple, low-cost container filling machine includes a pulse pump for drawing high-density, high viscosity, thixotropic pigment from a shipping container, an accumulator for smoothing flow of the...
5058630 Automatic beverage dispensing system with programmable cup drop  
An automatic beverage dispensing system including a conveyor, a multiflavor valve, and a programmable cup drop system which includes means for searching through a plurality of separate cup supply...
5042540 Device for placing products in sealable containers while maintaining the integrity of the seal  
A filing system which prevents the contamination of a container's sealing surface during the system's filling procedure is disclosed. A first endless belt is used to convey a succession of...
5027869 Dispensing method and apparatus, and container transporting apparatus  
A method and apparatus for pouring a plurality of materials into a plurality of containers while sequentially weighting the materials. A predetermined number of containers are arranged in a row on...
5000345 Automated drinkmaker system  
An automated drinkmaker system which is designed to accept an input drink order, as from a cash register, and deliver the drink order, for different sizes and different flavors, with or without...
4967808 Automatic beverage dispensing system  
An automatic beverage dispensing system for use with a plurality of remote point of sale units with order entry keyboards, each having selector buttons for different flavors and cup sizes, the...
4961447 Automatic beverge dispensing system  
An automatic beverage dispensing system for use with a plurality of remote point of sale units with order entry keyboards, each having selector buttons for different flavors and cup sizes, the...
4953600 Method and apparatus for transferring a predetermined portion to a container  
A device for discharging material from a succession of filled open top transfer receptacles includes a guideholder having a pair of elongated parallel spaced-apart deadplates extending from an...
4951719 Automatic postmix beverage dispensing system with flavor indicators  
An automatic postmix beverage dispensing system including a conveyor, a multiflavor valve, and a stationary flavor indicator adjacent to each cup pick-up station to inform the operator what...
4944337 Automatic beverage dispensing system with plural conveyors  
An automatic beverage dispensing system for use with a plurality of remote point of sale units with order entry keyboards, each having selector buttons for different flavors and cup sizes, the...
4942910 Process and apparatus for making shaped confections  
A process and apparatus for making a shaped frozen confection. The apparatus has a plurality of nozzles for extruding the shaped confection in a variety of contoured shapes. The nozzles...
4913202 Filling packaging containers  
A machine for filling packaging containers with a flowable product comprises a control valve in the form of a plug valve having a body defining a bore forming a frusto-conical valve seat, a plug...
4877067 Apparatus for distributedly filling particulate or granular material into containers  
An apparatus for filling a particulate or granular material into containers which includes a container conveyor having an even number of container transport paths and a material conveyor having an...
4827426 Data acquisition and processing system for post-mix beverage dispensers  
A data acquisition and processing system for a post-mix drink dispenser which automatically determines and correlates the number, size and flavor of drinks poured from a plurality of valve...
4807780 Vending machine for beverage  
A vending machine for dispensing cups comprising a rotatable turret magazine for supporting a plurality of upright columns of cups. A pair of part-circular guide surfaces engage the bottom surface...
4738290 Beverage vending machine  
A beverage vending machine for dispensing hot-water or cold-water beverages formulated from selected water-soluble extracts comprises essentially a plurality of containers for storing the various...
4625776 Vending machine delivering cups containing freshly made beverages  
A vending machine delivering cups containing freshly made beverages and comprising a cup dispenser dispensing empty cups to a filling device (4) receiving each cup during the making process, said...
4566287 Post mix dispensing machine  
A machine for dispensing a freshly mixed cup of juice or other beverage made from concentrate mixed with water immediately prior to the dispensing, comprising a generally U-shaped water reservoir,...
4232798 Automatic vending machine for delivering containers having edible product therein  
An automatic vending machine for delivering soft ice cream or the like to ice cream cones or other containers. A pivotally mounted arm receives a cone and then moves to a product-dispensing...
4194341 Hand operated filling and sealing device  
This specification discloses a manually operated portion packaging apparatus including an operating handle initiating and actuating each step in a sequence of steps to complete packaging of a...
4181162 Vending apparatus  
This invention provides a container delivery system for vending apparatus for vending containers. The delivery system comprises a container store and dispenser, an arm moveable in to and out of the...
4174742 Method and apparatus for making and dispensing snow cones  
A coin operated vending machine for automatically making and dispensing snow cones in accordance with a method of sequentially activating a cup delivery mechanism, depositing flaked ice from a...
4094345 Dispensing machine to prepare cups with a dry content  
A machine adapted to put dry ingredients in cups, as for cups ready to add water to make instant coffee, tea, soup, etc., and wherein the empty cups are positively extracted one by one from stacks...
4054212 Cup dispensing apparatus and method  
An apparatus and method for automatically supplying cups to a filling station is disclosed herein. The apparatus consists of means for moving nested cups along a generally horizontal path that has...
4020881 Automatic filling of flower pots  
In successive aligned groups, flower pots are gravity filled with earth in slight excess, the top compacted and leveled and a conical hole drilled in each to receive a plant, each successive...
4009740 Ice cream dispensing machine  
An automatic ice cream cone dispensing machine includes an automatic delivery apparatus for taking individual cones one at a time from an upright nested stack, moving the cone translationally to a...
3980109 Food dispenser with serving means  
A food dispenser suitable for use in a machine for packaging food products such as coleslaw. The dispenser includes an upstanding dispensing cylinder having an inlet in a side wall thereof and an...
3954126 Automatic dispenser for the manufacture of ice cream in various single or mixed flavours and dispensing in cups and/or wafer cones  
An automatic dispenser for ice cream in cups and/or wafer cones, comprising one or more containers for ice cream ingredients, a first compressor for supplying cold compressed air at a predetermined...
3895660 Handling of thin walled containers  
Apparatus for handling thin walled containers including a handling unit comprising a plurality of individual container holders each adapted to hold a container in upright manner therein, means...
3865281 APPARATUS FOR FILLING CONTAINERS  
A method and apparatus for dispensing containers, and filling the containers with a liquid or semi-solid food product. The container dispensing assembly is adapted to simultaneously dispense the...
3759303 CUP HANDLING APPARATUS  
An apparatus for individually feeding, filling, and stacking a supply of cups includes a conveyor adapted to reeive and support the cups individually and carry them from a cup feeding station to a...
3638392 AUTOMATICS SLUSH DISPENSING MACHINE  
A measuring container of defined volume employs electrodes for premeasuring slush for constant volume slug discharge into an underlying vend cup. Multiple safety features are incorporated in the...
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