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7366586 System and method for communicating vending information  
A system and method for communicating vending information for a vendible media product having entertainment content therein is provided. The system comprises a transaction network, and a database...
7286901 Method and system for accomplishing product detection  
The present invention provides for a vending system wherein a monitoring system verifies that a product ordered by a vending customer is actually delivered through a delivery area to the customer....
6839775 Method and apparatus for vending machine controller configured to monitor and analyze power profiles for plurality of motor coils to determine condition of vending machine  
An apparatus for selecting, monitoring, and controlling electrically powered devices is disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes an electrically powered device having a key operating...
6695166 Vending machine inventory system and method  
A vending machine containing one or more racks that contain stacked products to be vended to customers. An array of capacitive switches or capacitive switches are aligned on one or more racks. The...
6478185 Tablet vessel feed apparatus  
The present invention provides a tablet vessel feed apparatus comprising a stock container for storing a plurality of tablet vessels, a vessel takeout section for taking out the tablet vessels from...
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...
6405893 Medicine supply apparatus  
There is disclosed a medicine supply apparatus which can improve the efficiency of a dispensing operation. The medicine supply apparatus comprises a plurality of tablet cases 3 stored in a main...
6279719 Vending machine for dispensing single copies of periodicals and newspapers  
A vending machine for dispensing a single publication product at a time. The vending machine includes a housing with a front wall, back wall, side walls, top wall and bottom wall. A door is hinged...
6213341 Safe for holding and dispensing change  
Change dispensing apparatus having multiple columns for storing and vending tubes containing change in coin or in currency. The denominations being vended by a particular machine, the unit value of...
6089400 Toll-ticket issuing apparatus for continuous issuing of ticket  
An automatic toll-ticket issuing apparatus enables toll-tickets to be continuously issued. Plural ticket containers are provided in a housing, and the ticket issuing route between a current ticket...
6008597 DC-motor driven vending machine having simplified controls  
A simplified wiring system for an electronically controlled vending machine of the type capable of vending multiple products out of columns, trays or other queuing means, wherein by employing DC...
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...
5941363 Vending data collection system  
A monitoring system monitors a plurality of remote product dispensers. Vends are detected indicating that products have been dispensed from the dispenser during a given time period. Vend data...
5813568 Dispensing machine for newspapers and magazines  
The invention relates to vending machines for dispensing of a single copy of a printed publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine. The vending machine is self-contained, enclosing a power...
5791511 Dispensing machine for printed publication  
The invention relates to vending machines for dispensing of a single copy of a printed publication one-at-a-time. The vending machine is self contained, is provided with a power source, a driving...
5564547 Method and apparatus for converting single price vending machines to multiple price vending machines  
A method and apparatus for carrying out the conversion of single price purely electromechanical can and bottle vending machines to multi-price microprocessor controlled can and bottle vending...
5503300 Vending machine including refrigeration and oven compartments  
A vending machine includes a refrigeration compartment, an oven compartment, structure for transferring a food product from the refrigeration compartment to the oven compartment, and structure for...
5383572 Card counter and dispenser  
A low cost high speed counter and dispenser of tickets includes a feed roll and a hopper for feeding cards tangentially onto the feed roll. A pair of nip rolls rotating at a higher peripheral speed...
5207784 Vending machine with monitoring system  
A large inventory vending machine with monitoring system comprises a plurality of compartments for storing articles to be dispensed, user activated dispensing apparatus connected to respective ones...
5073078 Automatic intelligent magazine for electronic components  
The modular magazine for feeding tubular containers for stacks of electronic components to a dispenser rack of a machine for the automatic insertion of such components essentially comprises at...
4991739 Vending machine  
This vending machine includes a housing frame (12) subdivided into vertical columns (1-8) adapted to receive cylindrical articles (C). Elongate, rotatable support members (60) are provided below...
4949833 Apparatus for successive supply of parts  
An apparatus for successive supply of parts comprises a main parts feeding device for feeding parts successively to a predetermined position, a auxiliary parts feeding device provided with a parts...
4860922 Automatic dispenser for cylindrical commodities, in particular packets of coin  
The dispenser includes a bin which is adjustable for width, and a release mechanism attached to the bin externally of its outlet. The mechanism comprises a sliding shutter and a baffle, vertically...
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...
4706842 Apparatus for dispensing elongated cylindrical objects such as pencils  
Apparatus is disclosed for dispensing elongated cylindrical objects, such as pencils, and includes a housing, a hopper enclosed within the housing, actuating structure extending through a wall of...
4653665 Connector cassette and feed system  
Electrical connectors are slidably received in side-by-side serial array in elongated, hollow tubular cassettes. The cassettes are shaped to receive the connectors only in a single orientation, and...
4610008 Disc playing system with continuous playing function  
A disc playing system for playing discs selected from a plurality of stored discs in succession, includes a disc storing part in which a plurality of disc storing slots are provided, a...
4598378 Management information system and associated vending control device  
The combination of a vend control circuit with a device to accumulate an ongoing history of the operation of a vending machine capable of vending products and making change, the improvements...
4591069 Magazine dispensing apparatus  
Magazine dispensing apparatus has a housing with a delivery opening disposed in a lower region of a front wall of the housing. A number of selectively actuatable dispenser units are disposed within...
4575016 Continuous ribbon feed method and system  
A method and apparatus for continuously feeding a ribbon to an end use are disclosed. The apparatus includes a conveyor means for supplying numerous rolls of material, a robot assembly for...
4570061 Follower finger sheet separating apparatus  
A sheet stacking duplex tray includes a movable finger which separates a first group of sheets under the finger from a second group of sheets above the finger. Sheets which have been copied on only...
4483459 Dispensing machine  
A dispensing machine particularly for dispensing bottles or cans. The machine has a storage area formed by a plurality of parallel vertically spaced inclined shelves and at the lower end of each...
4478353 Vendor control system  
A vend control system for vending machines which accept credit, have an established vend price, include customer actuatable selection capability, apparatus for producing a selected vend, and an...
4390175 Recording medium feeding device  
A recording medium feeding device for use in an image formation instrument such as a printer, a copying apparatus or a recording apparatus. The feeding device has a recording medium supporting...
4372464 Vending machine control circuit  
A vending machine control circuit having a plurality of capacitively coupled switches for enabling a customer to indicate his choice of a product to be vended. A logic circuit is responsive thereto...
4354589 Method and apparatus for grouping flat items in stacks  
A method and an apparatus for grouping flat items in stacks, particularly cookies which are advanced to a grouping device in at least three mutually parallel channels. The grouping device forms...
4312172 Automatic lid placing apparatus for large plastic lids and method for placing lids  
An apparatus and method for automatically placing large plastic lids onto containers. Lids 24 are dispensed individually from magazine 11 onto slide 33. Each dispensed lid is individually retained...
4278182 Vending machine  
In a vending machine, where the items are stored in separate, vertical compartments from the lower ends of which items are removable, one by one, by a selector mechanism comprising a displaceable...
4221376 Document cartridge and mounting apparatus  
A portable cartridge and mounting apparatus includes, within the cartridge, a document separator, a stack follower, a double document restraint, and a three position lock and latch mechanism for...
4131213 Magazine vending machine  
A magazine vending machine which is operable solely by manually activated lever mechanisms and without any electric devices. The machine is further characterized in that sample magazines displayed...
4109825 Rotatable compartmentalized vending apparatus  
A vending apparatus which includes a rotatable dispensing member having a plurality of separate storage compartments for storing a plurality of items to be dispensed in a predetermined manner is...
4018359 Live bait vending apparatus  
Disclosed is apparatus for vending sealed water filled bags of live bait by way of a plurality of helical conveyors coupled with support shafts rotatably driven by selectively actuated motors. The...
3911974 Balloon dispensing and filling machine  
A machine for dispensing individual balloons and inflating such balloons with a gas flowing through a selectively operated control valve. An electric circuit is provided for the machine which is...
3831806 VENDING MACHINE HAVING PRODUCT LEVEL SENSING SWITCH AND METHOD OF CONVERSION OF MULTI-COLUMN VENDING MACHINES FOR CONJOINT OPERATION OF AT LEAST TWO COLUMNS  
A coin operated multi-column vending machine embodies a separate product delivery means for each column of product units and associated circuit components including plural customer-operated product...
3756362 VENDING MACHINE HAVING SEQUENTIAL ACTUATION OF DISPERSER  
A vending machine includes a cabinet having a series of article vending mechanisms mounted on shelves, at least one of which is hinged about a vertical axis, each article bending mechanism...
3734344 COIN OPERATED ARTICLE VENDING MACHINE  
A coin-operated vending machine has a cabinet with a delivery compartment and containing a series of dispensing units, each having a magazine to contain a stack of articles to be vended supported...
3720350 VENDING MACHINE  
An improved vending or dispensing machine having individually driven panel mounted replaceable dispensing modules with theft-proof merchandise supporting and dispensing means in the form of an...
3709355 STACK HEIGHT CONTROL USING CUTOFF KNIVES  
In the usual machine which applies sealing compound to a container closure, a special attachment prevents the feeding of the last few container covers remaining in a feed stack, and permits the...
3680736 ROTARY VALVE DISPENSER FOR TABLETS  
An apparatus for automatically dispensing disinfecting or germicidal tablets into a swimming pool or other body of water where the application of a disinfectant is required is disclosed. The...
3628643 SELECTOR MECHANISM FOR COIN-CONTROLLED ARTICLE DISPENSERS  
Selector mechanism for automatic coin-operated vending machines incorporating item display means and an actuator for operating electrical switch means for activating the selector mechanism; the...
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