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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,...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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 (...
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 (...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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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