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8135497 Portable, personal medication dispensing apparatus and method  
A portable, medication dispensing device which dispenses prepackaged pill strands of medication from a secure, storage compartment through a mechanism which physically limits the quantity dispensed...
7867769 Clog detection in a clinical sampling pipette  
Analyzing the pressure profile generated during a predetermined period of time prior to the end of an aspiration or dispensing process and comparing a pressure reading to predetermined values to...
7857161 Random access and random load dispensing unit  
The present invention provides a random access and random load dispensing unit including a housing, at least one support located in the housing and defining a first axis, a plurality of platforms...
7831336 Expandable personal portable medication dispenser for homebound and institutional use  
This invention is a fault tolerant computer controlled automatic medication dispenser with a unique dispensing system. This dispensing system enables a large number of detachable medication filled...
7770408 Ice supplier  
An ice supplier includes a case configured to store ice from an ice maker. The case includes an outlet and a transfer unit configured to transfer ice pieces in the case to the outlet. A sensor is...
7607468 Tape printer  
In the case the die cut label sheet is mounted, by detection of threshold voltage of output signal of the photo sensor, each label provisionally adhered to a front surface of the die cut label...
7477997 Method for ascertaining interferants in small liquid samples in an automated clinical analyzer  
A liquid aspiration method which includes a method for determining the quality of the aspirated sample through mathematical analysis of the standard deviation of the residuals of the linear...
7447563 Automatic flower-selling equipment  
Automatic flower-selling equipment comprises a housing including a casing having a selecting partial unit situated thereon and defining a storage space suitable for storing and protecting flowers,...
7441388 Automated device for packaging food  
An automated food processing system and method is provided that allows food to be dispensed, fried and packaged in a suitable container, which may be an individual portion-sized container. In one...
7356980 Automated method for packaging food  
An automated food processing system and method is provided that allows food to be dispensed, fried and packaged in a suitable container, which may be an individual portion-sized container. In one...
7289879 Pill dispensing system  
A pill dispensing system includes a shelving unit in array form that holds a number of bulk containers, each holding a bulk amount of a pill to be dispensed. A computer controlled robot removes a...
7234609 Article dispensing system and method for same  
An article dispensing machine and article transport storage unit are shown that permit articles slated for inventory to be delivered in secure manner from a centralized inventory supply center to...
7226271 Apparatus and method for feeding plates  
The present invention is directed to a plate feeder and a method of supplying plates. The plate feeder supplies plates on an as-needed basis and includes a holding structure for holding a plate. A...
7172116 Automatic dispensing machine of cards and card like goods  
Dispensing more than one card or card like good is prevented to prevent issuing a duplicate with an automatic dispensing machine of card or card like good having a table which supports the piled up...
6945427 Self-learning depth logic for multi-depth vendor control  
The disclosed invention is a dispensing apparatus and method for dispensing product from a vending machine. The invention employs a product vend detector to sense when products are dispensed. A...
6742671 Integrated automated drug dispenser method and apparatus  
A system is provided for automatically dispensing prescriptions according to a patient's order. The system includes at least one line of machines that can automatically fill a patient's...
6732884 Bulk medication dispenser and monitoring device  
A medication dispensing system comprising an on-site medication dispensing unit and a central monitoring facility. The on-site medication dispensing unit holds bulk amounts of medication in a...
6466830 Apparatus and method for producing electronic messages in a vending terminal  
An interactive internet photo terminal for composing an electronic self-image photo message utilizing a “live” image background of the terminal's location. The photo terminal includes a cash and...
6370841 Automated method for dispensing bulk medications with a machine-readable code  
An improved automated method for dispensing bulk medications with machine-readable code. The method includes dispensing oral solid and liquid unit-of-use medications in unit dosage amounts. The...
6354783 Medication-handling system for use in loading medication carts  
The system includes a medication-receiving assembly which collects medications automatically dispensed from storage assemblies therefor and a transport assembly for moving the collected medications...
6230927 Automatic drug dispenser  
Automatic drug dispenser for automatically dispensing at least one prepacked drug. The dispenser comprises at least one cartridge which, in use, is filled with prepacked drugs, wherein the drugs...
6112502 Restocking method for medical item dispensing system  
A system for monitoring and dispensing medical items which are dispensed for administration to patients includes a data terminal (76, 338, 538) which is connected through a network (82, 328, 536)...
5964374 Method of supplying drug ampules to an ampule feeders of ampule dispenser  
A method of supplying ampules, stored in a container, to any of a plurality of feeders of an ampule dispenser which has run out or is short of ampules in stock. The ampules are supplied only after...
5852911 Tablet dispenser  
A tablet dispenser having a control unit which can eliminate the possibility of erroneously putting tablets in a wrong tablet storage space. The tablet dispenser has a tablet storage unit and a...
5722466 Cable tie installation tool  
An automatic cable tie installation tool that conveys the cable tie by pressurized air includes a pressure differential sensing mechanism constructed so as to identify blockages in the transfer...
5449090 Label dispenser  
The invention provides a label dispenser for separating adhesive backed labels from their backing paper and method of operating the same. The label dispenser comprises a base, and a body attached...
5335810 Air actuated flow control/load breaker/gas seal unit  
A control apparatus is provided for use in an article handling system having a conduit through which articles such as can ends in a facewise nested condition are conveyed from a first location to a...
5195236 Weight-inserting mechanism for brake disc rotor-balancing machine  
For machine used to balance disk brake rotors having radial walls defining tapered recesses by inserting tapered weights into selected recesses, a magazine holds a stack comprised of a controlled...
4840290 Bulk loaded coin dispensing machine  
A coin exchanging machine has a coin case disposed at the bottom of a casing for accommodating a plurality of coin bundles, a coin pushing mechanism for pushing laterally a row of coin bundles...
4775274 Ring-shaped member supplying apparatus  
A ring-shaped member supplying apparatus including a storage section for storing a large number of flexible ring-shaped members stacked in layers and supporting the ring-shaped members so that the...
4722058 Control system for a vending machine using article freshness data  
A control system for a vending machine having a plurality of article storage bins mounted on a circulatory moving member includes discriminating devices associated respectively with the article...
4602711 Apparatus for feeding cylindrical workpieces to a workplace  
A device for feeding cylindrical components such as diodes, resistors or capacitors includes a buffer container for receiving components from a storage container, a horizontal exit track at the...
4558829 Automatic coil winding machine  
An automatic coil winding machine with a multiplicity of winding stations at which supply coil magazines with respective rotary feeders are provided, and with a loading device for loading the...
4546901 Apparatus for dispensing medication  
Medication dispensing apparatus for hospital and nursing home use that can satisfy patient prescription requirements on a large scale. The apparatus includes a carriage for dispensing pills or...
4503993 Apparatus for feeding loose fasteners to a plurality of fastening machines  
An apparatus for feeding loose fasteners, such as nails or screws, from the output guideway of a sorter to a plurality of fastening machines. A plurality of holding guideways for holding a quantity...
4480651 Coin feeding apparatus for a coin disposing machine  
In a coin disposing apparatus, a mechanism is disclosed for aligning a random supply of coins preparatory to further processing. Included is a rotary disc for receiving thereon the coins to be...
4391412 Apparatus for limiting filling height of containers  
Apparatus for limiting the filling height of containers for receiving shredded or minced paper film or the like from cutting or shredding machines, characterized by a switch for stopping the...
4372463 Apparatus and method for feeding thin parts  
An apparatus is made of a tube for containing a number of thin parts in a stack arrangement, having a loading end and a dispensing end, a device for feeding parts to the separating device, from the...
4342404 Automatic can end transfer device  
A can end conveying device for conveying ends from a first press to a second press. The conveyor has an input end and a divertor downstream therefrom. Ends are conveyed along a first track to a...
4171051 Apparatus for serially transporting, testing and orienting cylindrical components  
A multi-section feeder-serializer subsystem uses blocking gates controlled by sensors responsive to the quantity of components in the various sections to produce a single-file progression of...
4149545 Cigarette making and packing system  
Two cigarette making machines are interconnected to a single cigarette packing machine via a transfer system which uses individual conveyors to convey the cigarettes from each making machine to a...
4092990 Vibratory coin feeder  
An apparatus for feeding coins by vibration. An electromagnet is mounted upon a frame being operable to cyclically attract and repel an armature fixedly mounted to and beneath a horizontally...
4057172 Apparatus for dispensing golf balls  
An apparatus for dispensing a predetermined number of golf balls has a hopper for storing golf balls, a receptacle for retaining the predetermined number of golf balls in position for dispensing,...
3998237 Coin sorter  
A coin sorter is disclosed in which coins deposited on a horizontal rotating disc are directed in single file to the circumference of the disc where the coins are removed, by denomination, by means...
3979018 Apparatus for separating bundled bars  
The invention relates to an apparatus for separating bundled bars, which comprises a magazine for containing the bars in bundles cooperating with means which reduce its width and thus cause the...
3952882 Device for delivering pads to a bundling machine  
A device for delivering pads to a machine for bundling flat articles. The device includes a first pad hopper, a first conveyor which draws pads from the first pad hopper, a second pad hopper...
3948279 Circuitry for coin-handling system  
A circuit responds to a level-sensing device, adjacent a coin-holding tube, to cause an electric motor to rotate a coin-receiving drum until sufficient coins issue from that coin-receiving drum to...
3940014 Feeding method and apparatus for containers  
The flow of containers along a first conveyor providing a supply of unfilled containers to a filling machine is interrupted, with containers from the first conveyor being transferred to a second...
3899103 Money container setting circuit in an automatic money dispenser  
A money container setting circuit in an automatic money dispenser operated to dispense money of a plurality of monetary denominations, which circuit comprises: a section storing the denominations...
3875982 Fastener feeding apparatus drive control means  
A drive control means by which headed parts such as screws or other fasteners contained in any order in a bulk supply means such as a hopper are supplied continuously in a required alignment to a...
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