Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
221210000 | Article adhering or gripping type | 15 |
20080217353 | Method of Dispensing A Test Strip - In one aspect, a method of dispensing a test strip is provided in which the dispensed test strip remains stationary while the inner housing moves within an outer housing. In another embodiment, a test strip dispenser is provided that dispenses one test strip at a time. The test strip dispenser includes a movable inner housing nested inside an outer housing. A test strip dispensing system is also described. | 09-11-2008 |
20160137391 | CONTAINER COMPRISING A DISPENSER FOR GOODS TO BE PACKAGED - The invention relates to a container for a plurality of goods to be packaged ( | 05-19-2016 |
221211000 | Suction carrier | 7 |
20090065525 | NEGATIVE PRESSURE TYPE MEDICATION DELIVERING DEVICE AND MEDICATION DISPENSING DEVICE AND SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A medication delivering device includes a delivering unit and a negative pressure unit. The delivering unit includes a cylinder, a retractable part and a tip element. The cylinder has a first opening and a second opening. The retractable part connects the cylinder with the tip element. The tip element has a first end, a second end and a channel. The first end passes through the first opening and is received within the cylinder. The second end is located at an outlet of a pill container. The channel penetrates from the first end to the second end to link with the interior of the cylinder. The negative pressure unit connects to the second opening for providing negative pressure to the interior of the cylinder and the channel of the tip element, so that the tip element sucks up a pill on the outlet of the pill container. | 03-12-2009 |
20090127277 | Cup Dispenser for Dispensing a Wide Range of Cups in a Vending Machine - A cup dispenser that dispenses a wide range of cup sizes and cup types. The dispenser comprises a suctioning device that adheres cups by creating a sufficient pressure differential to overcome the weight of a cup to be dispensed. The suctioning device is attached to a mechanism for raising and lowering the same and is thereby lowered to receive a cup and subsequently raised to dispense it. Other embodiments for dispensing cups include a belt that tightens around a cup and a pair of biasing pins that exert pressure against the walls of a cup. | 05-21-2009 |
20100038376 | Method for Preventing Voltage from Escaping Fluid Interface for Water Base Gravity Feed Applicators - A coating material dispensing device includes an orifice for coupling to a reservoir for the coating material. The orifice is surrounded by a surface including at least one wall defining at least one groove. The reservoir includes a complementary surface including at least one wall defining at least one groove. The at least one groove and at least one wall surrounding the orifice respectively receive and are received in the at least one wall and at least one groove of the complementary surface of the reservoir to provide a labyrinth seal between the orifice and an exterior surface of the coating material dispensing device. | 02-18-2010 |
20100072221 | MACHINE AND METHODS FOR VENDING ARTICLES - A method and apparatus for vending articles from a machine. The machine includes an interior space having at least one compartment adapted to store articles therein, the compartment extending along a non-vertical axis between first and second ends thereof. A head is provided as part of a retrieval end of a flexible hose so as to engage the articles when the head is positioned in alignment with a compartment by a positioning mechanism. The head is extended into the compartment parallel to the non-vertical axis so as to engage to an article stored therein and retrieve it therefrom. | 03-25-2010 |
20130075419 | CUP DISPENSING SYSTEM - A cup dispensing system includes a storage device having cups stored therein. At least one suction cup is attached to a housing. At least one actuator is attached to the housing. An air source and vacuum generator are attached to the at least one suction cup. The at least one actuator moves the at least one suction cup in a desired motion and the vacuum generator actuates on and off removing the cup from the storage device and positioning it at a specified location. | 03-28-2013 |
20140131378 | AUTOMATIC PILL DISPENSER - An automatic pill dispenser includes a chassis, a pill dispensing box located on the chassis, a pill box located on the chassis for a plurality of pills, and a pill fetching assembly. The pill fetching assembly is located on the chassis. The pill fetching assembly includes a driving device and a fetching device. The fetching device includes a boom and an arm assembly. The arm assembly is located on an end of the boom to fetch the plurality of pills from the pill box. The driving device includes a cam adjacent to the boom. The fetching device rotates relative to the chassis in a horizontal plane. The cam urges the fetching device to rotate within a vertical plane. | 05-15-2014 |
20150028050 | AUTOMATIC PILL GRASPING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A pill grasping method comprises rotating a grasping arm with a nozzle to a predetermined initial position driven by a driving mechanism, rotating a number of pill storage cases to position one of the pill storage cases with a set number of pills to a predetermined grasping pill position driven by an actuating mechanism, rotating the grasping arm to enter into the corresponding pill storage case, starting a pump to generate a vacuum in the nozzle for sucking a pill, and determining if an actual pressure value in a pipe connecting the nozzle to the pump is less than a predetermined pressure value. The grasping arm is rotated to the predetermined initial position when the actual pressure value is less than the predetermined pressure value. | 01-29-2015 |
221212000 | Magnetic | 1 |
20140151393 | ARTICLE DISPENSER APPARATUS - An article dispenser accumulates and dispenses a required correct number of articles from a supply of loose articles to complete a work operation. The articles are picked one at a time from the supply of articles and deposited on a pivotal chute for collection in a ladle at an outlet of the chute. When the correct number of articles are deposited in the chute, the chute pivots from a first article accumulation position to a second position allowing removal of the articles from the ladle. | 06-05-2014 |
221213000 | Impaling | 2 |
20160159592 | SYSTEM FOR SINGLY DISPENSING FIBROUS FILTERS FROM BULK - A system for singly dispensing fibrous filters from bulk includes a grasping tool having a handle with a working end and a container with an opening. The opening has an edge, and at least a portion of the edge or an edge trim member is shaped so that bulk fibrous filters cannot pass freely through the opening in the container when they are inside and so that at least a portion of a top filter is accessible and graspable by the working end of the grasping tool. The edge trim member has a downwardly extending wall and tab members extending inward from the wall. The edge of the opening of the container has cutouts for receiving the tab members. The tab members can pass freely through the cutouts so that the edge trim member and the tab members can rotate freely relative to the container to define a locked position with the tab members underneath the edge of the opening so that the trim member can be releasably secured to the container. The edge trim member has a planer platform for rotating the trim member relative to the container and so that a user can move the container and the trim member together as a single unit. The planer platform has a cutout extending therethrough. The handle of the grasping tool includes a planer body with a front end with a pick extending outwardly therefrom and a tongue extending obliquely from the body. The cutout of the planer platform receives the tongue to releasably secure the grasping tool to the platform. | 06-09-2016 |
20160159593 | SYSTEM FOR SINGLY DISPENSING FIBROUS FILTERS FROM BULK - A system for singly dispensing fibrous coffee filters from bulk includes a grasping tool having a handle with a working end and a container with an edge trim member for preventing bulk fibrous filters from passing freely through the opening in the container. The edge trim member comprises interlocking parts and has a planer platform for rotating the trim member relative to the container. The planer platform has a cutout extending therethrough. The handle of the grasping tool is configured to be releasably secured to the platform. The system accommodates large and small cup- and cone-style filters and may be built-in to a coffee brewing machine. | 06-09-2016 |
221217000 | With endless or rotary article gripper carrying means | 2 |
221218000 | Endless belt carrier | 1 |
20140291346 | INVENTORY STORAGE AND DISPENSING MECHANISM - A vending arrangement for computerized vending machines, retail displays, automated retail stores, utilizes a centralized, robotic gantry associated with companion modules for vending selectable products. The modularized design enables deployment of half-sized or full-sized machines. The robotic gantry is deployed in a centralized module disposed adjacent display and inventory modules. The inventory modules can be fitted to both gantry sides, and doors can be fitted to the gantry front or rear. The gantry comprises an internal, vertically displaceable elevator utilizing a central conveyor for laterally, horizontally moving selected items from associated display and inventory positions to a vending position. The inventory modules comprise dispensing modules adjustably configurable to adjust the storage density of items to be vended. Computerized software enables the display and vending functions, and controls movement of the gantry elevator and dispenser module conveyor to dispense products from twin sides of the gantry by controlling the gantry conveyor. | 10-02-2014 |
221219000 | Having cam-operated pivoted jaw type gripper elements | 1 |
20140061222 | SECURE TERMINAL - A Self-Service Terminal (SST) and a method of selectively dispensing or depositing items of media are disclosed. The SST includes a fascia panel comprising a panel portion having a circular arc-shaped cross-section and at least one panel aperture. The SST also includes at least one media transfer device comprising an outer body portion having a circular arc-shaped cross-section, proximate to and spaced apart from the panel portion, and at least one body aperture. The body portion is rotatable with respect to the curved panel portion to selectively reveal the body aperture through the panel aperture. | 03-06-2014 |
221220000 | Having spring form, resilient gripper elements | 1 |
20130306670 | Dispenser Apparatus - A dispensing apparatus includes a hollow canister having a canister interior, a dispenser mechanism, and a plurality of stacked containers. The dispenser mechanism is shaped to be placed within the canister and has a bias device with a grasping portion and having open and closed positions, a base unit having a hollow interior and defining at least one opening shaped to receive the grasping portion therethrough to project from outside the base unit into the interior of the base unit, and a selection device moveably disposed with respect to the base unit and operable to selectively place the bias device between the open and closed positions when moved. The containers are each shaped to be stacked together within the hollow interior of the base unit and to be removably held therein by the bias device for individual dispensing of the stacked containers from the base unit. | 11-21-2013 |