Abstract: The dispensing device of a vending machine is provided with a coin operated latch. The latch assumes an inoperative position wherein it does not block the dispensing device in response to contact with a proper coin. When a dispensing action occurs, the dispensing device causes the coin to move the latch to said inoperative position and also directs the coin to a receptacle.

Abstract: A parking system in which a parking area for accommodation of a vehicle therein is closed at one end and has a parking meter at the other end. An elongated arm is pivotally connected to a post on which the parking meter is mounted. The elongated arm is movable between a position in which it extends transversely of the parking area a sufficient distance to block removal of a vehicle parked therein and another position in which the arm does not block removal of a vehicle in the parking area. Structure, actuated by a vehicle to be parked, is provided in the parking area. This structure simultaneously actuates the parking meter and moves the arm into a position into which it blocks removal of a vehicle parked in the parking area.

Abstract: A coin-operated device is provided with a container defining a compartment for receiving a receptacle. The receptacle has a lock arresting the receptacle in the container upon insertion of the former into the latter, and a lid which can be locked in the closed position thereof. Coins inserted into the receptacle through a slot pass into a coin-distinguishing mechanism located in the interior of the receptacle, and the signal generated by the coin-distinguishing mechanism is conducted to terminals of the circuitry of the device to start the operation thereof.

Abstract: An inclined coin chute includes devices for testing the ferrous content of, the weight of, and the presence or lack of a central aperture in coin-tokens which are present in and advancing through the coin-receptive chutes of the inclined coin-chute, wherein the testing devices are operable to intercept and eject spurious coin-tokens from the coin-chute.

Abstract: Cap for actuating the valve of a pressurized container comprises an annular group of radially disposed fins hinged at one edge and so positioned that inward pressure on any fin will swing that fin and thereby actuate the valve.

Abstract: A device for dispensing moistened cleansing tissues. The device provides cleansing tissues which have been moistened with a predetermined and definite quantity of heated water. The device includes a hot water heater for heating the water to an appropriate temperature, a water supply tube for supplying unheated water to said hot water heater, a water discharge tube for discharging properly heated hot water onto serially arranged cleansing tissues, and a throttling mechanism for alternately throttling said tubes for the purpose of controlling the supply of water to said heater and the discharge of heated water therefrom.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a radial ply pneumatic tire having one or more body plies containing radially directed inextensible reinforcing cords with the ply ends of such cords terminating on the same side of the bead bundle as the ply; that is, the ply ends are neither turned up or turned down around the bead bundle. The tire further has a bead connector ply containing radial, inextensible reinforcing cords, which is wrapped around the bead bundle. The inextensible radial cords of the bead connector ply and the radial cords of the body ply give the effect of one ply which is wrapped around the bead bundle. These plies may be considered to nest together to form a strong tire construction.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method are disclosed for loosening compacted fibrous material in a container whereby the fibrous material will flow freely out through an outlet located in the bottom of the container. Agitation means are provided on the sidewalls of the container adjacent to the outlet to create and maintain an open space adjacent the outlet. A flexible, tubular member is placed in said container so that a free portion having an open end extends into the open space a sufficient distance that when a pressurized fluid is passed through the flexible member and out of its open end it causes whip-like movements of the free portion within the open space causing the pressurized fluid to be directed upwardly towards the fibrous material compacted overhead to loosen and dislodge the fibrous material.

Abstract: A manually operated, hand-held, rechargeable, liquid spraying device having a non-pressurized, refillable or non-refillable container, is disclosed. The sprayer, a completely contained device, comprises a charging mechanism whereby, upon rotation of one part relative to another part, a movable piston is displaced vacating a charge chamber which, simultaneously, is charged with liquid. Displacement of the piston compresses a responsor or spring which, in turn, causes the piston to exert a hydraulic pressure on the liquid now in the chamber vacated by the piston. Hydraulic pressure on the charge chamber liquid is maintained by the closing of a one-way, elastomeric resilient valve in the entrance in the chamber, which closing occurs when the piston halts in its movement.

Abstract: An apparatus for receiving checks including coins and the like whereby checks deposited in fareboxes or similar mechanisms can be inspected by detecting means for recording the value of the checks and for determining the authenticity of the checks. The apparatus particularly includes a movable disc and adjacent wall arrangement for separating checks one from the other when the checks are deposited in a manner such that one or more checks is held in overlying relationship with another check. The separating arrangement comprises a first surface on the disc, which may define friction means, for engaging the side of a check with an opposed surface of the wall being provided in the apparatus for engaging the side of a check stacked against the other check. A drive is provided for achieving relative movement between the surfaces whereby the check engaged by one surface will be moved away from the check engaged by the other surface to automatically eliminate the stacked relationship.

Abstract: Apparatus for receiving and acknowledging the return of a wheeled vehicle to a check-in station, as for example, a grocery service cart. The apparatus includes a rugged, foolproof sensor required to operate in predetermined sequence thereby to thwart efforts to decipher the mode of operation needed to give a false acknowledgment of a returned vehicle or permitting reception of the same vehicle more than once from the same person. All sensor components are adapted to be mounted on a base plate supporting a return entry port and passageway. The apparatus is readily adjustable to accommodate vehicles of different size. Access to control components is safeguarded by a locked cover equipped with tamperproof retainers and means for preventing reassembly of the sensor cover by persons who have gained access without authorization.

Abstract: A portable dispenser unit includes a stand on a base and having a liquid reservoir on top communicating with a nozzle located under a dispensing head therebelow controlled by a normally closed valve device. The head is receptive of a supply of flowable particulate material from a container equipped with a closure providing a combination adapter for coupling the container in supplying relation with the head, a seal to assure product freshness, a device for modulating material flow from the container into the head, and a device for preventing trademarked product substitution. Particulate material metering rotor in the head, and said valve device are selectively operable through a manual device which may be optionally coupled continuously with the metering rotor or releasably coin coupled with the metering rotor. To provide hot beverage, an electrical heater is carried by the reservoir.

Abstract: The invention disclosed is a machine for applying in series a molded plastic shell-like carrier over a pre-arranged grouping of containers, such as bottles. The machine includes a storage magazine turret supplying the carriers in nested fashion to a hopper device at a feeding station. The magazine turret indexes a magazine to the feeding station and a cam-operated device releases the nested carrier stack in a magazine to the underlying hopper. A carrier feed device continuously separates the lowermost carrier and drops it to an underlying carrier delivery conveyor. Bottles are advanced in parallel rows under the conveyor and past a carrier gate at the end of the carrier conveyor. First star wheel mechanism spaces the bottles on the conveyor to correspond as groups with compartment cavities in the carrier. Bottles moving through the first star wheel pull carriers from the feed gate; whereupon each such carrier falls over a group of bottles.

Abstract: The invention disclosed is a machine for applying in series a molded plastic shell-like carrier over a pre-arranged grouping of containers, such as bottles. The machine includes a storage magazine turret supplying the carriers in nested fashion to a hopper device at a feeding station. The magazine turret indexes a magazine to the feeding station and a cam-operated device releases the nested carrier stack in a magazine to the underlying hopper. A carrier feed device continuously separates the lowermost carrier and drops it to an underlying carrier delivery conveyor. Bottles are advanced in parallel rows under the conveyor and past a carrier gate at the end of the carrier conveyor. First star wheel mechanism spaces the bottles on the conveyor to correspond as groups with compartment cavities in the carrier. Bottles moving through the first star wheel pull carriers from the feed gate; whereupon each such carrier falls over a group of bottles.

Abstract: A pneumatic tired wheel having excellent highspeed performance after puncture comprises a tubeless tire, a bead stopper and a rim. The tubeless tire comprises a pair of elastic reinforcements having a Shore A hardness of at least 47, the bead stopper comprises an independent air-tight chamber and a crown portion with at least one inextensible reinforcing layer. The crown portion has an outer diameter determined in connection with the outer diameters of the flange of the rim and the tread portion of the tire.

Abstract: A supply web of relatively smooth paper toweling is mounted on a dispenser and is directed between rotatable dispensing rolls which have interengaging generally triangular teeth. The dispensing rolls are resiliently urged together with the paper toweling web therebetween and during roll rotation, the teeth compressively abut and foldably deform the relatively smooth paper web into a crimped paper web without appreciable permanent thickness deformation. During the crimping of the paper web by the dispensing rolls and without regard to roll rotation, the paper web is at all times securely retained by the rolls so that after the dispensing of a desired length of the crimped paper web, the web may be cut along a dispenser cutting bar during such roll retention.

Abstract: A number of discs are simultaneously dispensed into a culture dish from a dispenser having an array of self-contained dispensers locked in apertured sockets on a base frame. The individual dispensers are simultaneously operated by an actuating plate which engages actuating pins on each of them. The height of the dispenser above the culture dish is adjustable by cam and follower engagement of the base plate within a height-adjusting ring. Indicia and yieldable detents are provided for indexing the height of the base plate. The individual dispensers each include a chute-incorporating body, cover, slide plate, spring and tubular cartridge. The open tops of the chutes provide visual confirmation that a disc has been discharged from each of the dispensers. Weights and spring clips in the cartridges push the discs successively into firm contact with the dispensing slide plates for dependably delivering them into the dispenser chutes.

Abstract: An automatic deposit receiving and handling machine into which all the bills a depositor intends to deposit can be put at one time, so that the time required for making a deposit is greatly reduced. When the bills have been placed on a tray provided for the purpose, access to the tray is prevented.

Abstract: An aerosol dispenser for fluid products is described which has a container for product to be dispensed, a separator piston pump for generating compressed air as a propellant, a spray nozzle for aspirating, and spraying product from the product container, flowpaths, for compressed air from the piston pump, and for product from the product container, to the spray nozzle, valves and associated with the flowpaths and opening the paths dependent on the piston approaching or reaching full compression stroke position in the cylinder of the aforesaid piston pump. An abutment in the piston pump acts, in the aforesaid compression stroke position, on the valve body of the compressed air flow-controlling valve. The product flow control valve has a flexible elastic diaphragm across the compressed air flowpath and separating the latter from the interior of the product container.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for measuring stresses in a wire or wire cord, such as that found in the reinforcing belt of a pneumatic tire. A portion of the wire is encapsulated in a solder material which is machined such that a rectangular solid billet of the solder is formed thereon. A transducer or plurality of transducers in the form of strain gauges are fixed to at least one flat surface on the billet and oriented in a direction such that forces applied to the tire will affect the resistance of the transducer. The resistance of the transducer can be balanced in a bridge network and the voltage resulting therefrom suitably readout in terms of the stress being applied to the wire cord. The cord can be built into a tire with the lead wires from the transducer being fed through the tire to the bridge network. The stress tests can then be accomplished in an inflated and running tire.