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7565222 |
Economical optical system to provide reasonable assurance of completed vend or vendible items from vending machines
A monitor and method for reasonable confirmation of a vend from a vending machine includes a set of optical emitters positionable on one side of a dispensing area and a set of optical detectors,...
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7447605 |
System and method for calibrating a vending apparatus
A system and method for calibrating a vending apparatus is provided. A vertical base reference position of a selector arm is stored, wherein the vertical base reference position corresponds to one...
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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....
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7258247 |
Automated condiment dispensing system
An automated system for dispensing condiment packets includes a magazine for storing a stack of condiment packets and a dispenser for metering out those condiment packets. Multiple magazines and...
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7073683 |
Apparatus and method for determining completion of a requested transaction in a vending machine
A sensor for detecting and signaling whether a requested product is successfully vended is placed in a vending machine. The sensor determines whether a requested product passes through a defined...
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6840400 |
Media dispenser module and media dispenser apparatus having the same
A media dispenser module includes: a casing mounted in a mounting unit of a media dispenser apparatus and having an opening accessible from outside and a door for opening and closing the opening; a...
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6772906 |
Apparatus and method for vending from a vending machine
An apparatus and method for increasing assurance a product has been vended upon an authorized product selection. The method comprises monitoring if a product has been vended during a first vend...
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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...
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6732014 |
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....
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6708079 |
Optical vend-sensing system for control of vending machine
An optical vend-sensing system for reliably detecting the dispensing of an article, is presented. The system includes two parallel reflecting surfaces, each mounted at opposite sides of a vend...
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6629625 |
Reflector and anti-fog film in an optical sensor system
A dispensed product detection system and method for use in a refrigerated vending machine utilizing an optical light beam crossing the path through which a dispensed product travels. An optical...
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6604652 |
Cigarette vending machine
The invention relates to a cigarette vending machine, especially for installing in the checkout area of a market or the like, comprising a housing ( 12 ) wherein several shafts ( 16 ) are located (...
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6550760 |
Spring nail for a sheet feeding device
Spring nail ( 32, 34, 72, 96 ) for a sheet feeding device ( 10 ). The spring nail ( 32, 34, 72, 96 ) has a mounting end ( 36, 74 ) for attaching to the sheet feeding device ( 10 ) and a free end (...
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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...
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6273413 |
Automated banking machine with sheet directing apparatus
An automated banking machine (10) includes a user interface (12) including an opening (20) for users to deliver and receive individual sheets and stacks of sheets to and from the machine. The...
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6170929 |
Automated medication-dispensing cart
An automated medication-dispensing cart includes a closed cart housing and a plurality of medication-containing bins which extend for substantially the length of the cart and which are supported...
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6056150 |
Apparatus for dispensing tickets, cards and the like from a stack
An apparatus for dispensing articles such as tickets and cards includes a cabinet. A plurality of article dispensing assemblies are disposed inside the cabinet. Each article dispensing assembly...
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5923262 |
Adaptive methods of determining blockage in an air seeder blockage monitoring system
Computer implemented methods for determining blocked and partially blocked conditions in the flow of particulate matter in an agricultural air seeding system are disclosed which automatically adapt...
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5913399 |
Coin handling mechanism for supplying coins to coin game machines and collecting coins therefrom and gaming facility having the same
A gaming facility having a plurality of coin game machines (100) and a coin handling mechanism (200) for supplying coins to the coin game machines and collecting coins therefrom is disclosed. The...
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5553696 |
Security device for bill changers
A security device for a bill changer that greatly reduces the risk of the coinage within the changer from being robbed. The security device includes a support having a bill insertion slot...
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5449229 |
Tambour door customer access port
A Customer Access Port (CAP) for an automated storage library subsystem which comprises two sliding doors to control operator access to the library. A magazine adapted to hold several storage media...
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5412521 |
Gate mechanism for a data cartridge library system
Gate mechanism for a data cartridge library system including an upstanding lever arm having a laterally extending tab formed at its upper end and a generally Z-shaped member extending from its...
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5366110 |
Game token dispenser
A game token dispenser is equipped with a token hopper for dispensing, to a token receiving port, a predetermined number of tokens supplied from a token reservoir. The token hopper is divided into...
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5335816 |
Interactive medication delivery system for medication prepackaged in blister packs
A dispensing device has a storage compartment for holding one or more of the medication containers. The compartment has an opening. A push member moves in a path aligned with the opening between a...
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5282454 |
Jam-free bulk loader for a paintball gun
An essentially jam-free bulk loader for a semi-automatic paintball gun includes a storage housing positionable above the gun infeed opening and adapted to hold a quantity of paintballs to be...
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5238143 |
Apparatus for dispensing flat articles
An envelope dispensing module (10) for use in an ATM includes feed belts (26) for feeding the lowermost envelope (18') of a stack of envelopes (18) along a feed path (49) towards an exit slot (50)....
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5177470 |
Sensor device for particles in an air stream
The blockage module is designed to be mounted on air seeder seeding equipment. Piezoelectric sensors extending into the flow tubes monitor flow by producing high frequency ringing signals when...
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5141127 |
Method and apparatus for identifying and indicating the content of document canisters
Apparatus for identifying and indicating the content of document canisters such as those used to hold supplies of documents in Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), includes a canister (10) holding a...
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5121854 |
Apparatus for storing and dispensing frozen comestibles
An apparatus and method for storing and dispensing comestibles, such as ice cream, has a cabinet defining an interior for holding a plurality of stacked ice cream containing magazines. A...
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5097983 |
Supply device used in a semiconductor assembly apparatus
A workpiece supply device used in semiconductor assembly machines such as wire bonding device, pellet bonding device, etc. including an elevator section having an elevator table that is raised and...
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5074433 |
Document delivery and abort mechanism
A document delivery and abort mechanism 11 for an automatic document dispensing machine 13 for dispensing currency comprises an accept door 15 for dispensing documents from automatic document...
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5062598 |
Delivery system for under the counter currency dispenser
A currency note dispenser especially adapted for under-the counter use in which a conveyor carries notes removed from the bottom of a supply stack to a delivery tray at an access location above the...
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5048717 |
Multiple-product merchandizing machine
A multiple-product merchandizing machine having a cylindrical drum mounted within a cabinet. The drum is divided into a plurality of horizontal shelves each of which is divided by a plurality of...
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5042685 |
Dispensing having a compartment for detecting and counting the dispensed objects especially adapted for dispensing medication and method of using the same
A medication dispenser that includes a receptacle having a counting compartment with a first opening into the receptacle and a second opening through which the pills are dispensed. To be dispensed,...
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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...
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4993587 |
Card dispensing apparatus for card vending machine
A card dispensing apparatus is disclosed of a type comprising a draw roller for drawing a card to be dispensed from a bottom of a stack of cards and a delivery roller for delivering the drawn card...
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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...
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4928230 |
Automatic transacting apparatus
A paper document transacting apparatus for storing and extracting a paper document into and out of storages through a transporting unit. The apparatus comprises a detector for detecting a...
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4903815 |
Automatic vending machine and system for dispensing articles
An article gripper is moved by a robotic transporter in two perpendicular directions within a transport plane between a reference location and ID code reading locations aligned with an access port...
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4870806 |
Method and apparatus for monitoring the supply of cap members of capping machines
A method and apparatus for monitoring the supply of cap members from a magazine or supply bin, via a channel, to the capping mechanism of a capping machine. At least one signal emitter, which is...
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4785927 |
Vending machine control with product delivery motor home detection, motor speed control and power supply
A vending machine control apparatus has a product delivery motor home circuit and a DC power supply modulated in response to varying line voltage and/or load by a pulse width modulation circuit....
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4784289 |
Ticket issuing device for a ticket machine
A ticket issuing device for a ticket machine according to the present invention comprises a holding plate for receiving thereon tickets fed one by one from a data writing station by a feeding...
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4653009 |
Stamp dispenser
A stamp dispensing apparatus receives and transmits serial data between itself and a central computer. The data from the computer includes stamp dispensing commands as well as supervisory commands...
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4637523 |
Stamp scanning and dispensing means and method
A system for scanning and dispensing postage stamps from a roll of stamps, including a scanning circuit for optically scanning each individual stamp on a stamp roll as the stamp passes thereby in...
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4601686 |
Production of tobacco-smoke filters
The subject invention pertains to a device for operating upon a filter-rod lengths comprising a first conveyor for transferring the filter lengths from a supply outlet to a plurality of further...
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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...
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4597506 |
Beverage dispensing machine
A beverage dispensing machine provided with the ability to alter machine characteristics and to diagnose machine faults without additional fault indicating displays through use of beverage select...
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4577794 |
Rivet injector/rejector device
A rivet injector/rejector device (10) is provided for use with a riveting machine (12) having a plurality of rivet gripping fingers (120, 122). The device (10) includes a supporting member (16)...
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4570801 |
Document handling machine
A document and currency handling machine in which bills to be handled are loaded in a cartridge having a first endless belt with a pusher plate which is spring biased towards the sheet-by-sheet...
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4542808 |
Order filling system
An order filling apparatus includes an elongated belt conveyor having a bin-on switch and a bin-off switch at opposite ends thereof. A plurality of item dispensers are positioned along the...
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