Abstract: A card vending machine for vending a card, responsive to the taste of a user, such as a playing card, a karuta or a tarot card employed for a game synthesizes an image (300) obtained by photographing an object (particularly the user) and an image (100a to 100d) such as a mark of a playing card or a numeral and vends the same as a card.

Abstract: A card for adding up service points is provided with a rewritable display part in addition to a display part for the name of a customer and a customer ID number. The rewritable display part displays the situation of accrual of service points in each chain and the total of the service points. The customer may not have individual cards for a plurality of chains. The customer can get a special favor such as a gift, for example, from each chain in exchange for the service points accrued in this chain or from a point bank in exchange for the total service points. The customer can also circulate the service points as virtual currency for settling his/her accounts.

Abstract: A discrete type automated chemical analytic apparatus, wherein a carrier member reciprocatable in parallel with a reaction line constituted by those of the reaction tubes linearly arranged on an endless belt which are set on the top run of the endless belt supports two reagent-pipetting nozzles in a vertically movable state. The corresponding reagent containers are disposed on an extension of the reaction line. The nozzles through which the reagent is sucked from the reagent containers pipette the sucked reagent into the corresponding reaction tubes at predetermined points on the reaction line in accordance with the movement of the carrier member. The specimen discharge mechanism includes a nozzle for pipetting a specimen at a prescribed point on the reaction line.