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8132691 Vending machine dispensing system  
A dispensing system for a vending machine includes a vend motor, a cradle, a load bar and a push arm. Upon selection of a particular product, the vend motor rotates the cradle, causing the product...
8061556 Automated freezer component  
An automated freezer stores food items stacked in a removable cartridge. The food items are dispensed from the automated freezer in response to a request for the food items. The food items are...
8050796 Public use pet tag marking kiosk  
Implementations of a public use tag marking kiosk. Aspects associated with particular implementations of a tag marking kiosk comprise, among others, automatically marking two sides of a tag within...
8038016 Injection drug takeout device  
To reliably bias drugs to a rotor side without upsizing a device, with little layout limitations, and without damaging the drugs. Biasing means that biases drugs stored in a cassette 3 to a rotor...
8025181 Sanitary threaded rod lid dispenser  
A dispensing device for beverage cup lid which prevents excessive human contact with the lid prior to insertion upon the beverage cup, the device providing an externally threaded central rotary rod...
8020725 Medicine dispensing apparatus  
A medicine dispensing apparatus which allows a prescribed quantity of medicines to be reliably taken out based on prescription data. The medicine dispensing apparatus includes a plurality of...
7975875 Mechanical gas bottle dispensing machine  
An entirely mechanical gas bottle dispensing machine that allows to either only dispense by gravity a filled bottle upon insertion of a first token or dispense a filled bottle with return of an...
7969319 Variable height bin level sensor for use with a product dispensing agricultural implement  
A fill level sensor is magnetically coupled to a hopper of an agricultural implement to provide a signal indicative of product fill level in the hopper relative to a fill line. The sensor can be...
7954668 Low and empty product detection using load cell and load cell bracket  
A system and method detect when a product container from which a product is dispensed is empty or nearly empty, and provides a notification of the product status. The system includes a load cell...
7878367 Blister pack system which assures a reliable contact making when an item is removed  
A blister pack system has an upper part and a bottom part, between which a blister pack is disposed. Pouches of the blister pack are aligned with corresponding ejection openings of the upper part...
7837058 Product transport system for a vending machine  
A product delivery system for a vending machine includes first and second guide rails and a carriage rail. The guide rails are fixedly mounted in the vending machine spaced from and parallel to...
7793769 Automatic vending machine  
The present invention provides a vending machine that converts a force applied from a manual operation means into an electric power, and operates by utilizing the electric power as a source of...
7779099 Distributed intelligent systems and methods therefor  
A distributed intelligent system. The distributed network includes at least one gateway server configured for receiving meter data from one or more nodes of a distributed meter network and at least...
7694589 Low and empty product detection using load cell and load cell bracket  
A system and method detect when a product container from which a product is dispensed is empty or nearly empty, and provides a notification of the product status. The system includes a load cell...
7620157 System for requesting service of a machine  
A machine requiring periodic maintenance, such as a vending machine, is retrofitted to include an alert system for notifying a machine operator that the machine requires servicing. The alert system...
7546973 Low reserve indicator for a paper towel dispenser  
A paper towel dispenser includes a housing with an inner chamber configured to support a paper supply and a dispensing aperture for dispensing paper from the paper supply. The paper supply includes...
7472802 System for keeping a dispensing apparatus for a zigzag folded web of towel material optimally filled  
A system for optimally filling an apparatus for dispensing a zigzag folded web of towel material is provided. The system includes a holder that is disposed in a housing for receiving a first stock...
7455163 Tablet packaging device  
A tablet packing apparatus arranged to prevent tablets from bouncing in a tablet drop guide path so that dropping time of the tablets can be shortened so as to be ready in time for packing. The...
7230223 Sensing system for ascertaining currency content of ATM  
A sensing arrangement (12) is described. The arrangement comprises: a moveable object (80) including a plurality of marker portions (112) disposed in a calibrated configuration, each marker portion...
7146246 Dispensing device  
A dispenser has an upper loading chamber (38), a dispensing chamber (40) located beneath the loading chamber, first and second openable covers (24, 34) for the loading chamber (38) and a dispensing...
7048142 Apparatus for dispensing medical items  
A dispenser (10) for dispensing medical items (68, 70, 72) includes dispenser modules (28, 30) movably mounted thereon. The dispenser modules are selectively operative to dispense medical items...
6980887 Apparatus and method for improved vending machine inventory maintenance  
Inventory maintenance is improved for a system of one or more vending machines by providing one or more vending machines with unique identifiers, and means for collecting and transmitting...
6957125 Interactive vending machine to view customized products before they are purchased and internally track saleable inventory  
An interactive vending machine which enables a consumer to view customized products before they are purchased and thereafter enables the consumer to purchase the customized products. The machine...
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...
6786354 Media cassette  
A cassette (10) for storing media in sheet form is described. The cassette (10) has urging means (26) for urging a stack of media items (34) to one end (24) of the cassette (10), such as a media...
6735498 Automated newspaper rack inventory and alert management system  
The present invention describes various methods and apparatus to increase efficiency and sales of a Newspaper Rack. Several sensors are positioned throughout the Newspaper Rack to monitor when the...
6668210 Vending machine for engraved medals and a method of automatically engraving medals  
The present invention is to provide a vending machine for engraved medals and a method of automatically engraving medals wherein an engraver is contained in the vending machine, and if a coin or a...
6609969 Apparatus and method for dispensing of awards  
A device for dispensing awards includes a housing having a set of compartments, the contents of which are visible from the outside. Each compartment contains a small but valuable award, such as a...
6553703 Information panel attachable to vend machine spirals  
An information panel that is easily installed on a vending machine spiral in order to identify the product associated with the spiral. The invention comprises a convex channel, that nests with the...
6508380 Dispenser for the dispensing elements in strips  
A dispenser (1) for dispensing strip elements (4), having a supply chamber (3) for accommodating a strip-element stack (St), and having a discharging pusher (14) with a nose (16) for interacting...
6498329 Food products distributor  
It includes a microwave oven (3) with a front door (31) that can slide vertically and a conveyor band (6) with a horizontal section extending as far as the interior of the oven; the products fall...
6491186 Business card dispenser with counter and empty indicator  
The invention is a business card dispenser that dispenses a single card using a sliding button which has a card counter and a means of indicating when the business card dispenser is empty.
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...
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...
6259965 Cooler inventory management system with light guard  
An apparatus for tracking the movement of a number of products. The apparatus includes a shelf with the products positioned thereon. The shelf has a fit end with an optical sensor positioned...
6250452 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...
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...
6152321 Identification system for articles in vending apparatus of hotel rooms  
An identification system for articles in manual free automatic vending apparatus for hotel rooms is provided. Electric or electronic sensors detect the presence or absence of a stored article in an...
5967364 Large product vending system  
A large product vending system which allows for the dispensing of large diameter product from a vending machine is presented. The system includes a dispense mechanism associated with the existing...
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...
5964373 Dispenser apparatus  
Dispensing apparatus for dispensing individual articles (50) at a dispensing station (A) from a line of the articles stored one-behind-another on a trackway (10) comprises a conveyor belt (16) on...
5947327 Power saving apparatus of an automatic vending machine and method thereof  
The present invention is disclosed to provide a power saving apparatus and a method for reducing an electric power of the automatic vending machine when goods stored or provided at an inner part of...
5927542 Dispensing apparatus  
A dispensing apparatus comprises a try-like housing having recesses in an upper surface each for accommodating an item to be dispense. A non-return mechanism is located in the housing adjacent to...
5899358 Device for dispensing cylindrical objects  
The invention concerns an apparatus for dispensing cylindrical objects, the apparatus having a dispensing device comprising a device housing having a dispensing opening, a storage magazine disposed...
5881910 Numerical inventory control device  
A Numerical Inventory Control Device for holding and then dispensing one or more items contained within the device wherein the items are gradually moved from the back toward the front of the device...
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...
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...
5780842 Item dispensing control system for use in vending devices  
A dispensing device has a photovoltaic vending actuator including a light source coupled to a currency collector, supplying a beam of light at a first wavelength when proper currency is inserted in...
5762235 Medicament verification in an automatic dispensing system  
A system for dispensing medicaments such as pills and capsules includes a plurality of medicament dispensing cells, a manipulator arm for moving to a cell and receiving medicament dispensed...
5743522 Document or copy sheet tray sheet set sensor actuator  
A sheet feeding system for an imaging system with a sheet input tray into which sheets are loaded onto the upper surface to be fed downstream, with a sheet sensing system for automatically...
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