Abstract: The present invention provides a new motorized bulk, dry foods dispensing apparatus and system for commercial, retail and home use designed to dispense a predetermined volume of dry bulk food into a bowl or other receptacle without crushing or breaking the food. The bulk food dispenser includes a hopper, a feed house including two or more openings, and a feed wheel located within the feed house, where the feed wheel further includes a plurality of protrusions for directing a solid material out of the hopper when the feed wheel is rotated mechanically via a motor, where at least one of the two or more openings receive the solid material directed by a baffle, and where at least one of the two or more openings dispense the solid material out of the feed house.

Abstract: The present invention provides a new bulk, dry foods dispensing apparatus and system for commercial, retail and home use designed to dispense a predetermined volume of dry bulk food into a bowl or other receptacle without crushing or breaking the food. The bulk food dispenser includes a hopper, a dispensing chamber including two or more openings, a baffle located above the dispensing chamber for directing the solid bulk material to be dispensed from the hopper to the dispensing chamber, and a paddle wheel located within the dispensing chamber, where the paddle wheel further includes a plurality of protrusions for directing a solid material out of the dispensing chamber when the paddle wheel is rotated, where at least one of the two or more openings receive the solid material directed by the baffle, and where at least one of the two or more openings dispense the solid material out of the dispensing chamber.

Abstract: The present invention provides a new bulk, dry foods dispensing apparatus and system for commercial, retail and home use designed to dispense a predetermined volume of dry bulk food into a bowl or other receptacle without crushing or breaking the food. The bulk food dispenser includes a hopper, a dispensing chamber including two or more openings, a baffle located above the dispensing chamber for directing the solid bulk material to be dispensed from the hopper to the dispensing chamber, and a paddle wheel located within the dispensing chamber, where the paddle wheel further includes a plurality of protrusions for directing a solid material out of the dispensing chamber when the paddle wheel is rotated, where at least one of the two or more openings receive the solid material directed by the baffle, and where at least one of the two or more openings dispense the solid material out of the dispensing chamber.

Abstract: A dispenser for solid comestibles is disclosed which has a reservoir for containing the comestibles, a port for accessing the comestibles, a channel interposed between the port and the reservoir and a displacement mechanism which dispenses a consistent quantity of the comestibles without mutilating or guillotining the comestibles and which does not become clogged during operation.

Abstract: An improved modular post-mounted sign apparatus for maintaining a sign in a substantially retained fashion while providing for the facilitated assembly, disassembly and storage of the sign apparatus. A sign panel is telescopically inserted through the open end of the post into an interior cavity such that a portion of the sign panel protrudes outwardly through a slot in the post. The sign panel is retained within the post's interior cavity by a flanged retaining pin assembly affixed to the portion of the sign panel which is telescopically inserted such that the retaining pins preclude the removal of the sign panel from the post member. A cap is removably affixed over the open first end of the post member to further retain the sign panel.

Abstract: A stand for displaying and dispensing articles having at least one inclined article holding tray. The tray has a plurality of parallel channels made up of upstanding parallel sidewalls terminating at a front end wall. Two of the sidewalls that are symmetrically placed with respect to the width of the trays have receiving fissures therein. They receive connecting blades from supporting members that maintain the trays in the desired inclined position. The supporting members are generally planar and have upper and lower connecting blades. In a display stand utilizing a plurality of inclined trays arranged in a vertical array, the supporting members are between the trays with the upper connecting blade within the lower mounting fissure of the tray above and the lower connecting blade within the upper mounting fissure in the tray below. The lowermost tray is supported on some elevating means to incline the trays and that elevating means may be a supporting member.