Abstract: An apparatus for supplying a fastener for joining two different types of panels includes: a first bowl which accommodates fasteners of at least three specifications, aligns first fasteners of a first specification by a first guider, sequentially supplies the first fasteners to a supply unit through a first rail, and drops downward fasteners other than the first fasteners by a first dropping unit of the first guider; and a second bowl which is disposed at a lower side of the first bowl, accommodates the first fasteners dropped from the first bowl, aligns second fasteners of a second specification by a second guider, sequentially supplies the second fasteners to the supply unit through a second rail, and drops downward fasteners other than the second fasteners.

Abstract: A medication dispenser device comprises a loading device and a portable plate. The loading device configured to load pills further includes at least one loading compartment, a loading member and an air piston. The loading tubing is capable of selecting predetermined number of pills to inject into the portable plate. Through the air piston. The portable plate has a first annular plate attached with a second annular plate. The first and second annular plate include a plurality of channels. The channels has first sections in the first annular plate and second sections in the second annular plate such that the pills are loaded in the first sections of the channel when the second sections of the channels are fully loaded. The portable plate is capable of separating from the loading device when the pills are fully loaded in the channels.

Abstract: An automatic medication dispensing device for bottled medication includes a frame, a medication collection device and medication dispensing units; wherein: the bottled medications are arranged in a single column in the medication container; a medication outlet is set on the bottom wall at the medication discharging end of the medication container; the medication discharging mechanism includes a medication stopper and a push rod; the medication stopper is set at the medication outlet and one end of the medication stopper is hinged to the medication container, and the medication stopper has two working states of blocking the medication outlet and opening and a primary elastic element acts on the medication stopper; the drive device drives the primary pressing portion to act on the medication stopper and the secondary pressing portion acts on the first bottled medication at the medication discharging end.

Abstract: A paintball loader for supplying a plurality of substantially similar paintballs a paintball marker. The loader comprises a housing adapted to receive the plurality of paintballs, the housing defining a feeder tube in a base thereof, the feeder tube dimensioned to allow single passage of the paintballs, a paintball receiving member comprising an elongate receiving channel spiraling radially outward in a direction of rotation from the feeder hole and having an outlet adjacent the feeder tube, the channel comprising a pair of opposing side walls spaced to allow single passage of the paintballs, and a feeder arm positioned across at least a portion of the channel walls such that the feeder arm comes into contact with one of the plurality of the paintballs when in the channel. The channel is rotatable relative to the feeder arm about the feeder hole in the direction of rotation.

Abstract: A pill dispensing cap that secures to a conventional pill container. The pill dispensing cap has a lower cap, a pill discharge port, and a spring loaded rotatable and slidable upper cap. Pills are dispensed one at a time, and the remaining pills are isolated from external contamination. A child resistant lock prevents small children and/or mentally handicapped individuals from easily accessing medicine inside the container. The child resistant lock uses a vertically slidable upper cap that is slidably and rotatably attached to the lower cap. A child safety lock uses a key in the upper cap that must be aligned with a slot in the lower cap to allow a pill to be dispensed. When the key and slot are aligned, the upper cap is vertically compressed against the lower cap. As the upper cap moves toward the base cap, a gravity fed pill discharge port is exposed which releases a single pill.

Abstract: A component feeding material is useful for taking a forefront electronic component outside from electronic components transferred in alignment. The electronic components are transferred forward in alignment along a transfer passage such that the forefront electronic component abuts against a component stopper, and when the forefront electronic component is taken outside through a component ejection port, air pressure for relieving pressing force is exerted rearward on at least one of following electronic components, thereby relieving the pressing force exerted on the forefront electronic component abutting against the component stopper from the following electronic components.

Abstract: A pill dispensing system which includes a container constructed to hold a plurality of pills and that container includes a lower aperture and an upper portion. A pill lifting assembly located below the pill container includes a pill platform which lifts a pill into the upper portion of the container. A pill ejector is connected to the pill platform and the pill ejector places the pill into motion as the pill platform approaches the upper portion of the container. An exit passage communicates with the upper portion of the pill container and the exit passage is configured to receive a pill placed into motion by the ejector. A sensor is operatively connected to the exit passage such that the sensor is capable of detecting a pill moving through the exit passage. Finally, a micro-controller is operatively connected to the pill lifting assembly and the sensor.

Abstract: A feed enhancer for eliminating an unevenness in height from a paper stack to be printed by a printer. The printer has a paper feeder including a paper tray for storage of the paper stack on a top surface thereof and for feeding individual paper from the paper stack into the printer for subsequent printing. The feed enhancer has an elongated strip disposed at the top surface of the paper tray and positioned perpendicular to a direction in which the individual paper is fed into the printer such that the feed enhancer evens out the unevenness in height of the paper stack in an area of the paper stack that is to be fed into the printer. Also provided are a printer and printer tray having the feed enhancer of the present invention.

Abstract: A pill dispensing system which includes a container constructed to old a plurality of pills and that container includes a lower aperture and an upper portion. A pill lifting assembly located below the pill container includes a pill platform which lifts a pill into the upper portion of the container. A pill ejector is connected to the pill platform and the pill ejector places the pill into motion as the pill platform approaches the upper portion of the container. An exit passage communicates with the upper portion of the pill container and the exit passage is configured to receive a pill placed into motion by the ejector. A sensor is operatively connected to the exit passage such that the sensor is capable of detecting a pill moving through the exit passage. Finally, a micro-controller is operatively connected to the pill lifting assembly and the sensor.

Abstract: An ampule dispenser is capable of discharging ampules stored in a random manner one by one after arranging them in an orderly manner. A hole is formed in the bottom plate of an ampule housing. The bottom plate has a top surface sloping downward toward this hole. A push-up member adapted to be moved up and down through the hole has an ampule supporting portion on which a single ampule is placed at a time in a laid-down position. By moving the push-up member upward, the ampule supported on its supporting portion is raised to the highest position, where it slides down the sloping supporting portion and is discharged through a discharge port formed in the peripheral wall of the ampule housing.

Abstract: An aligning and supplying apparatus 1 comprises a container 2 to store screws, a chute which enters the container 2 and is formed on the top surface thereof with a groove 3 having a smaller width than the diameter of the screw head so as to receive the screw shank, means for relatively moving the container and the chute between a first position where the bottom surface of the container and the top surface of the chute meet and a second position where the top surface of the chute rises to a predetermined height above the bottom surface of the container, and a first air nozzle 14 which is positioned so as to face toward the top surface of the chute and blow off screws fallen without getting into the groove of the chute. The screw shank is thus received into the chute groove when the apparatus is in the first position and the screw 23 which lies on the top surface of the chute is blown off, leaving screws lined in a row in the groove 3 in the chute.

Abstract: An unscrambler for unscrambling and orientating containers such as plastic bottles includes a hopper (1), having straight or slightly curved walls, a plurality of travelling carriages (20) having holding elements (5) with openings (6) for receiving individual containers and passageways (22) for receiving and positioning the containers, the travelling carriages (20) moving along an enclosed path and being interconnected and drawn by a flexible or hinged drive belt (33), and adjustable shelf (8) disposed between holders (5) and passageways (22) for supporting the containers (2) until they reach a discharge station where they drop through an opening in the shelf.

Abstract: An integrated circuit sleeve handler comprises an input hopper, a first conveyor for sequentially removing individual sleeves from the hopper, an orientor for uniformly orienting the sleeves, a second conveyor for cooperating with the first conveyor to align each sleeve at a sleeve unloading station, a buffer for temporarily holding empty sleeves, a third conveyor for receiving empty sleeves from the buffer and moving them to and past a sleeve loading station and to an output bin and a fourth conveyor for cooperating with the third conveyor to align each sleeve with the sleeve loading station. Thus, all of the sleeve handling needs for an automated integrated circuit handler can be met with a single apparatus which needs very little manual intervention.

Abstract: A device for orienting generally round subjects, particularly caps, from a mass of randomly oriented subjects, comprising a slanted rotatable disc which is provided with a plurality of longitudinally movable pins equally arranged in a circular path coaxial with the center of the disc and near the perimeter thereof. The pins are arranged for upward movement in the region between a lower and an upper moving part of the disc in a manner as to extend beyond the upper surface for carrying subjects which are in a predetermined orientation and for delivering the subjects to a subsequent conveying means.