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.

Abstract: A drive for a particle screening machine or the like in which a bearing support plate is attached to two side walls of the screening machine. A stationary bearing hub is mounted on the support plate in registration with an opening through the plate, and the hub receives and supports a bearing assembly which in turn journals a rotatably driven shaft. A pair of weights are positioned on opposite sides of the stationary support plate and are eccentrically mounted adjacent opposite ends of the shaft with their centers of mass equidistant from the geometric center of the rotatable shaft. The two weights are aligned such that an axis passing through the mass centers of the weights is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the shaft.

Abstract: This invention relates to a ventilated toilet system for removing obnoxious odors from the toilet bowl and includes integral vent channels formed along the base and the back inside of the water tank, and a vent adapter mounted inside the passage that directs the flow of ventilating air along the vent channels to an exhaust pipe and discharges it by a remote in-line exhaust fan to the outside atmosphere. The adapter is attached to the base of the overflow flush valve pipe or, conversely, designed to be an integral part of the overflow flush value pipe, itself, and is positioned to connect the base vent channel of the water tank to the toilet water inlet chamber of the bowl for passage of ventilating air, and to connect the overflow flush valve pipe to the water inlet chamber for passage of flush water.

Abstract: A constant flow rate controller valve includes a piston spring biased towards the top of the valve. Fluid or gas flowing into the valve increases the pressure in the chamber above the piston, forcing the piston toward a valve seat. A pin type valve stem is thus seated in the valve seat, blocking gas or fluid flow to the outlet port. The pressure in the chamber below the piston builds until the pressure in this chamber plus the piston spring force is greater than the pressure in the chamber above the piston. The piston then lifts the valve stem from the valve seat, and the pathway to the outlet orifice is opened. Fluid or gas flows through the piston via the caibrated orifice. An equilibrium flow rate is reached by variation in the piston position based on the interaction of the above gas or fluid pressures and spring force.