Abstract: A single nip de-skew, lateral registration, and process direction registration device removes skew, laterally registers, and registers in the process direction substrates moving along a media transport path. The single nip de-skew, lateral registration, and process direction registration device includes a fixed roller that is longer than a rotating wheel that forms a nip with the fixed roller. The wheel has a coefficient of friction that is higher than a coefficient of friction of the roller so an actuator translating the wheel along the fixed roller laterally registers and de-skews substrates.

Abstract: A dispensing mechanism is adapted to eject a test sensor from a cartridge opening formed in a cartridge containing test sensors. The dispensing mechanism comprises a gear rack, a gear, and a wheel. The gear rack includes a first portion and a second portion located generally parallel to one another. The second portion of the gear rack includes a first plurality of teeth. The gear includes a second plurality of teeth that are adapted to be engaged by the first plurality of teeth upon movement of the gear rack. The wheel is operatively engaged by the gear and is adapted to dispense the test sensor from the cartridge opening and to seal the cartridge opening. The movement of the gear rack in a first direction causes the gear to rotate causing the wheel to rotate. The rotation of the wheel dispenses the test sensor through the cartridge opening.

Abstract: A dispensing mechanism is adapted to eject a test sensor from a cartridge opening formed in a cartridge containing test sensors. The dispensing mechanism comprises a gear rack, a gear, and a wheel. The gear rack includes a first portion and a second portion located generally parallel to one another. The second portion of the gear rack includes a first plurality of teeth. The gear includes a second plurality of teeth that are adapted to be engaged by the first plurality of teeth upon movement of the gear rack. The wheel is operatively engaged by the gear and is adapted to dispense the test sensor from the cartridge opening and to seal the cartridge opening. The movement of the gear rack in a first direction causes the gear to rotate causing the wheel to rotate. The rotation of the wheel dispenses the test sensor through the cartridge opening.

Abstract: A pill dispensing cap for a bottle has an inner sleeve with a divider panel and a first base panel rotatable within an outer sleeve having a second base panel. First and second window openings are defined in the first and second base panels. A plate moveable across and within the two sleeves defines a third window opening and a fourth window opening is defined in the divider panel. The plate can be held in an initial position wherein the first and second windows are aligned, whilst the third and fourth windows are not aligned. The outer sleeve is rotatable to a condition wherein the first and second windows are not aligned and the plate can then be slid across to a condition wherein the third and fourth windows are aligned to allow pills in a bottle to enter the inner sleeve.

Abstract: A dispensing mechanism is adapted to eject a test sensor from a cartridge opening formed in a cartridge containing test sensors. The dispensing mechanism comprises a gear rack, a gear, and a wheel. The gear rack includes a first portion and a second portion located generally parallel to one another. The second portion of the gear rack includes a first plurality of teeth. The gear includes a second plurality of teeth that are adapted to be engaged by the first plurality of teeth upon movement of the gear rack. The wheel is operatively engaged by the gear and is adapted to dispense the test sensor from the cartridge opening and to seal the cartridge opening. The movement of the gear rack in a first direction causes the gear to rotate causing the wheel to rotate. The rotation of the wheel dispenses the test sensor through the cartridge opening.

Abstract: A one-at-a-time pill container and dispenser having a mechanism that allows for dispensing pills. Said pills are stored safely inside the device until dispensed preferably by actuating a plunger mechanism that operates by engagement to a helical cut or thread in a tube, and is maintained in place by a longitudinal cut or groove in a concentric tube. The pill is dispensed via an orifice fitted with an element-resistant septum that protects said tube contents pre-, intra-, and post-delivery. The plunger mechanism is actuated via rotation of the inner tube using a control switch. The dispenser is primarily intended for administering ergogenic substances to athletes.

Abstract: A blade dispenser assembly includes a housing and an integrally formed shuttle mechanism which functions to dispense one blade at a time from the bottom of a stack of blades held within the housing. The shuttle mechanism is configured to engage a bottommost blade in the stack when in a closed position and to carry the engaged blade with it when the shuttle mechanism is moved to an opened position. In the opened position, the shuttle mechanism is partially extended from the housing and securely holds and displays the withdrawn blade. An exemplary preferred shuttle mechanism is pivotally coupled to the housing and includes an arm portion that allows a person to pivot the shuttle mechanism away from the housing while keeping the person's hand safely away from the blade being withdrawn.

Abstract: An apparatus for calibrating a sheet registering and deskewing device, comprising a plurality of sensors, located along a paper path, to sense a position of a sheet in the paper path at a first position and a second position, and to generate a signal indicative thereof, a pair of independent separately driven drive nips with steering mechanisms located in the paper path for forwarding the sheet from the first position to the second position and a controller, to receive signals from the said plurality of sensors and to generate motor control drive signals for the said pair of independent separately driven drive nips and steering mechanisms so as to induce a corrective action in the movement of the sheet from the first position to the second position in the paper path and to repeat the corrective action until a predetermined position is obtained.

Abstract: A blade holder includes a housing detachably secured onto a base plate. The base plate includes a panel engaged into a notch of the housing, and includes a slot communicating with the notch of the housing. The housing includes a channel for slidably receiving a pusher. The pusher includes a shank slidably received in the slot of the housing before the housing is secured onto the base plate, without additional driving tools and fasteners. A frame is slidably engaged in the housing for moving the blades toward the pusher which may then move the blades out of the housing.

Abstract: A magazine (3) for a tablet dispenser (1) for receiving and sequentially dispensing tablets (T) consists of a housing (4) which is substantially cuboid and is open on the longitudinal side (5), receives a longitudinally guided slider (6) and a helical spring (8) supported between the slider (6) and the housing floor (7) and comprises an output device (10) at the housing head (9) which is opposite of the housing floor (7), with the helical spring (8) engaging with its floor-side end (11) of the winding in a clamping gap (12) in the region of the floor of the housing.

Abstract: A dispenser for storing/dispensing pharmaceutical dosages that are provided in a stamp-like (flat) dosage form. In some embodiments, the present dispenser includes a housing for retaining a plurality of stacked, individual “stamp-like” pharmaceutical dosages. Disposed within the housing beneath the dosages is a bias element, such as a helical spring, that urges the dosages towards a dosage delivery port of the housing. From the dosage delivery port, dosages are dispensed through an aperture. In other embodiments, the instant dispenser includes a cylindrical main body for retaining pharmaceutical dosages having a stamp-like dosage form that are collectively organized in a roll. A dosage delivery port depending from the cylindrical main body receives dosages one at a time therefrom. The present dispenser is configured, in various embodiments, for manual, mechanically assisted, or automated dispensing.

Abstract: Brushes held in a container includes a plurality of brushes, and a container storing the brushes in its interior. A spring for pushing up brushes to let one of them positioned in an upper end of the interior half pushed out of an outlet. Each brush has bristles is sealed in a housing, with their roots clamped firmly in a rear portion of the housing, which has a thin neck between a front portion and the rear portion. The neck is easily broken, letting the front portion removed to let the bristles expose out for use, with the container able to serve as a grip. After an uppermost brush in the container is used, the next one is pushed out of an outlet of the container to be used.

Abstract: A display apparatus is disclosed herein for storing a quantity of literature sheets or brochures in an ordered stack so that the uppermost piece of literature is visually displayed. Means are provided for advancing the stack of literature within a housing so that the uppermost piece of literature bears against an advanacement mechanism including rollers which advances the uppermost piece of literature so as to be partially exposed externally of a dispensing slot so that a user may readily grasp the exposed portion and withdraw the literature. The stack of literature is carried on a spring-biased platform normally urging the stack upward against the underside of the advancement mechanism. A guide system maintains the platform in a centered disposition with respect to the storage housing.

Abstract: A storage chamber large enough to store a predetermined number of probe covers is formed into a dispenser body. A spring biases the probe covers toward one end of the chamber at which is located a slide. The slide has an indentation used to retrieve a single probe cover from the chamber at a time when aligned with the chamber. Located in the indentation is an aperture tube for receiving a probe of the instrument to be covered. The probe is pressed into the probe cover and into the aperture thus causing the probe cover to stretch and cover the probe. A flange formed on the slide is pressed by a user to align the indentation of the slide with the chamber. The slide is spring loaded so that releasing the flange will result in the slide moving such that the identation is located outside the chamber and the retrieved probe cover can be applied to the instrument. A door in the dispenser is raised to allow access to the chamber for the insertion of a stack of probe covers.

Abstract: A group of flanged lids or cups of substantially identical construction and arranged in nested relation in a container are dispensed from an open end of the container by an elongated yieldable tension element disposed astride the open end of the container and arranged to override the flange of the article adjacent the open end of the container thereby to release and to aid in ejecting the article from the container.

Abstract: A holder and dispenser for knife blades which includes a sliding partition biased toward a discharge opening by rubber bands in a double loop configuration. The double looped configuration orients the rubber bands which loop around the back of the holder, and loop adjacent the front of the holder and loop around the back of the sliding partition. The rubber bands are oriented in slots or grooves in the holder and dispenser for protection. The sliding partition bias blades held in the holder toward a discharge slot through which blades are slid laterally.

Abstract: The present invention includes a holder for blades having a dispensing opening through which a single blade can be slideably ejected by either a sliding ejector or manual manipulation through a thumb slot. The blades within the holder are aligned by a free floating partition which is biased toward the dispensing opening by at least one rubber band formed in a double loop configuration. The double loop configuration orients the rubber band such that it loops around the back of the holder, loops adjacent the front of the holder, and loops around the back of the sliding partition. The ejector includes an extension to occlude the edge of a dispensed blade.

Abstract: A hygienic dispenser for hard candies and medicaments in wafer form, each package of which is constituted by a stack of such wafers protectively sealed in an inner foil wrapper to create a roll that is surrounded by a removable outer sleeve. The dispenser includes a tubular container for receiving the roll through its open end and to seat it on an axially-advanceable platform which urges the roll upwardly. Covering the open end of the container and pivoted thereto is a cap whose thickness corresponds to that of a wafer. The cap is laterally swingable to a cocked position in which the open end is uncovered to release the roll which is then advanced by the platform to engage a visor projecting from the top of the cap, thereby exposing the uppermost wrapped wafer. When the cap is swung back to again cover the open end, it acts to sever the wrapper and discharge the uppermost wafer, the next wafer in the roll then engaging the cap in readiness for the next operation.

Abstract: A dispensing compartment which is in particular provided for refrigeration units has a substantially horizontal stand surface for a plurality of identical or similarly formed articles and is provided with guide walls or strips at the sides projecting beyond the level of the stand surface as well as with a front abutment wall or strip confining the stand surface at the removal side. In order to achieve a quick and convenient removal and a direct access to the products to be removed, a rear abutment is provided which is shiftable in direction of the removal side and away therefrom and upon which a force acts directed toward the removal side. By this structure, the articles to be removed are always accessible at the removal side, and the articles located therebehind are continuously urged forwardly in the course of further removal by means of the force-activated rear abutment.

Abstract: A machine for vending newspapers, magazines and the like including a housing having a dispensing opening and a dispensing gate in the opening, a tray for supporting a stack of papers and tray elevating mechanism for urging the tray upwardly until the top paper in the stack is adjacent the level of the dispensing opening, a feed mechanism operative through a dispensing stroke to feed the end paper at least part way off the stack into the dispensing opening, and gate control mechanism operative to prevent opening of the gate between dispensing cycles and operative when the feed mechanism is moved in its dispensing stroke to enable opening of the gate, the gate control mechanism also including mechanism operative whenever the dispensing gate is held open after the feed mechanism has completed its dispensing stroke, for preventing elevation of the support tray toward the dispensing opening to thereby impede the access to the papers in the stack through the dispensing opening.

Abstract: A cigarette dispenser comprising a casing having a plurality of dispensing means each movable to dispense a cigarette through a dispensing opening, slide means operable to actuate said dispensing means, and cam means associated with said slide means whereby successive movements of the latter actuates said dispensing means one at a time and in sequence.