Abstract: This invention relates to the field of vending machines and more specifically to an improved method and means for detecting and correcting positioning errors in a vending machine. A carousel type dispensing apparatus is incorporated.

Abstract: A cooking pot lid holder with a vertically disposed bore angularly mounting therein a plurality of bearing members in stacked relation. Each bearing member mounts, at right angles thereto, an independently movable arm. On the outer end of each arm is a pot lid knob-engaging double spring member, specifically including an arcuate first spring portion and an arcuate second spring portion facing the first spring portion. Pot lids are retained in the spring members in an upside down fashion so as to minimize dripping of condensation when so held.

Abstract: A television camera apparatus for attachment to a frame body such as a wall, a ceiling, a pole or the like comprises a television camera, a base attached to the frame body, support means supported by the base to be rotatable around a first axis extending in one direction and supporting the television camera to be rotatable around a second axis extending in the direction different from the first axis, first drive means for rotating the support means around the first axis relative to the base, and second drive means for rotating the television camera to be rotatable around the second axis relative to the support means, wherein the first drive means includes a first member attached to the support means and extending along a virtual circle around the first axis, and a rotary mechanism having a second member engaged with the first member so as to rotate the first member around the first axis.

Abstract: An artificial-flower-forming ribbon comprises a pair of strips overlapping each other, and at least one string placed between and along both strips. Both strips are joined together at a plurality of joint portions placed at opposite sides of the string and also on a plurality of lines spaced apart from each other in the longitudinal direction of both strings. The string is joined at its one end to one ends of both strips. A pair of adjoining lines are parallel to two equilateral sides of an isosceles triangle where a segment parallel to a longitudinal center line of both strips is defined as the base. Both strips have a pair of notches provided at opposite sides of each line to be respectively open to opposite side edges of both strips, and substantially confronting each other in the transverse direction of both strips.