Abstract: Article dispensing display device includes a picture frame and an article-holding reservoir disposed within the picture frame. An article dispensing chute is associated with the picture frame for dispensing articles from the reservoir, and is controlled by an article-metering device configured to dispense one or more articles at a time.

Abstract: A doll includes a hollow torso supporting a head, arm appendages and foot appendages. A pair of shoes are received upon the doll's feet and support a slidable drawer having an ink pad disposed therein and a stamp roller. A pendent is secured to the doll's neck by a chain and defines an interior cavity and hingeable cover. The pendent receives a plurality of paper tags in an accordion folded configuration. An earring is removably coupled to the doll's ear and includes a stamp and covering cap in removable attachment thereto. A sticker dispenser is supported within the doll torso and is operatively coupled to one of the doll's arms such that pivotal motion of the doll's arm dispenses a sticker from a supply of stickers retained within the dispenser. A slot is provided on the frontal portion of the doll torso through which the dispenser dispenses the stickers.

Abstract: A doll includes a plurality of attachment pads distributed over the doll surface each having one portion of a conventional fabric attachment structure such as a hook and loop attachment means. A plurality of ornaments such as simulated jewels include undersurfaces bearing cooperating attachment pads intended to grasp the attachment pads upon the doll surface. A wand is configured to receive and support a plurality of jewel ornaments each having individual attachment pads. A dispensing mechanism is supported within the wand and is operative in response to an actuating button to provide sequential dispensing of the jeweled ornaments in a one at a time fashion to simulate a magical touch upon the selected surface.

Abstract: A golf ball storage and dispensing device for transport in a golfer's bag that is operated to dispense, on demand, a single golf ball into a golfer's hand and consists of a tubular housing, that can be straight or cane shaped, and is for containing a column of golf balls that are supported on a spring biased platform therein to urge that column towards an open ball dispensing end of which tubular housing. A dispenser is provided across the dispensing end of the tubular housing that involves in one embodiment, a pivoting cup and, in another embodiment, a piston that is arranged to slide in a cylindrical sleeve, the piston to pickup and dispense a single golf ball when moved across the open tubular housing end. Both embodiments provide for depressing and locking the platform to load a column of golf balls therein, whereafter the platform is released, the spring biasing urging the column of golf balls against the dispenser.

Abstract: The disclosed invention is a candy tablet dispenser shaped to simulate a beverage can, or the like. What would normally be the pop-top region of the can slides laterally outwardly and, at the same time, ejects a tablet from the top of a stack of tablets that is stored internally. The ejector portion is finger-driven back and forth.

Abstract: An ornamentally-shaped, nonrectangular interconnected or interfolded disposable paper product, which includes ornamentally-shaped forms including male protrusions and female indentations. On the interconnected embodiments perforations are located between adjacent and contiguous ornamentally-shaped forms at the points of contiguities. In addition to the paper forms being cut to certain shapes, the perforations finish the definition of the ornamentally-shaped forms which may include such forms as hearts, stars, flowers, beer can motifs, and other such forms. These disposable paper products may include bathroom tissue, paper towels, and pop-up facial tissues and paper napkins.

Abstract: A toothpick dispenser utilizes a sliding tray which holds one toothpick which it receives from an overlying hopper and then slides out into an accessible position in which a pivotal toothpick gripper in the form of a woodpecker, in the preferred embodiment, simultaneously pivots down, gripping the toothpick in its beak, and then pivots back into the upright position to offer the toothpick to the user.

Abstract: A candy container configured as a fowl or the like with the contained candy shaped like an egg. Squeezing or compressing the container causes an egg to be ejected from an orifice on the bottom of the container simultaneously generating air pressure to activate a reed type sound generator located in the bill of the container.

Abstract: A dispensing machine (100) is divided into three compartments (110, 112, 114). An animal-like figure including the body and head of an elephant (118) is located in a central compartment (112) and the head (118) can be rotated on the body by a drive mechanism (134) in the upper compartment (114). A number of non-prize containing packages (130) are provided in the central compartment (112) and prize-containing packages are located in the upper compartment (114). In operation, upon insertion of coins into the coin mechanism (154) the drive mechanism (134) is operated and causes the head (118) to turn through 360.degree. passing through the non-prize containing packages (130). Upon each cycle, one prize-containing package from the upper compartment (114) is released from the upper compartment and passes into the passage (112) in the head (118). The prize-containing package is discharged from the trunk of the head through opened bottomed bucket (128) into a prize-receiving receptacle (166).

Abstract: A tooth-pick dispenser includes a housing a perforated top and a vertical side wall having an opening, a tooth-pick pickup device simulating a seagull and for oscillating movement supported on a top of the housing for supplying a tooth-pick, a drawer reciprocable in the opening of the vertical side wall of the housing between a toothpick receiving position in the housing and a tooth-pick delivery position exterior of the housing, and having a reciprocable body for catching a tooth-pick in the delivery position and conveying it to the delivery position and a link mechanism interconnecting the pickup device and the drawer, whereby the pickup device can be swung to a pickup position so as to operate the link mechanism to move the drawer to its delivery position, and the drawer will be automatically retracked a spring to operate the link mechanism to swing the pickup device back to a raised dispensing position for serving a tooth-pick to a user in a convenient position.

Abstract: A golf ball package, holder and dispenser with a cylindrical plastic molded base or sleeve, a replaceable plastic cover, and a deformable dispensing hole in the base side.The base is a one-piece plastic molding and the aperture is formed with an elliptical shape in the molding without additional parts.

Abstract: Coin-dispensing apparatus having a general shape of a hand gun and provided with a trigger for manually advancing an endless belt formed with coin receptacles or pockets for receiving coins as they are fed by gravity from a reservoir, such advancing endless belt moving such coins to an outlet of the apparatus where such coins are directed into a coin-receiving machine such as a slot machine or the like. The apparatus is attachable to such coin-receiving machine and includes an adjustable cam member whereby the number of coins dispensed by the apparatus with a single actuation of the trigger can be varied within limits.

Abstract: A device for dispensing coins into highway toll collection baskets has the general configuration of a hand gun having a barrel, handle and trigger mechanism. When the trigger is pulled rearwardly, coins predisposed in separate compartments within the bore of the barrel are released for downward rolling movement toward the open forward extremity of the bore.

Abstract: A dispenser is provided which includes a generally upright body having an external helical groove journalled for rotation in a preferably transparent outer sleeve. Resilient fingers in the groove or on the inside of the sleeve project into the groove space. An outlet is provided near the top of the dispenser. As the body is rotated, preferably manually, relative to the sleeve in one angular sense, small, firm round objects located in the groove are urged along the groove and serially expelled from the dispenser at the outlet. The dispenser regionally of the outlet may be shaped to resemble a cartoon character or the like. In a preferred embodiment the outlet does not rotate relative to the grooved body so there is no danger that a child can hurt its finger by sticking it into the outlet while the dispenser is being operated. The device is useful in teaching a small child the art of twisting one object relative to another, pepper grinder-fashion.

Abstract: A tablet or pill ejector is disclosed consisting of at least three detachably secured sections in the general shape of a pen. The front end of the device is provided with a hole communicating with axially aligned bores formed longitudinally in the sections and through which a pill may be ejected quickly. An ejector rod is provided in the bores adapted to move from a cocked position to a released position wherein it passes instantly through a pill retaining member located in the front section of the device. Cocking and trigger mechanisms are provided. In an alternate embodiment the front section is provided with a revolvable barrel adapted to contain a plurality of pills for ejection. The rear end of the device may be provided with a storage compartment and cap.

Abstract: A vending machine having a merchandise chamber for a flowable body of merchandise items of a selected normal depth is disclosed. The chamber is defined by a bottom wall, a top wall, a vertical front wall that is at least partially transparent, and vertical side walls. A mechanized dispenser near the bottom of the chamber dispenses the merchandise to the exterior of the chamber, and a display is positioned behind the front wall and above the normal merchandise depth. In one preferred embodiment, there is a vertical hopper partition extending between the side walls behind the display to divide the merchandise chamber into a front display chamber and a rear hopper that extends above the normal merchandise depth. The front display chamber is suitable for storing a plurality of such merchandise items. The bottom of the partition is spaced above the bottom wall a distance corresponding to the normal merchandise depth so as to allow the front display chamber to be kept at a stable level.

Abstract: A vending apparatus for dispensing a controlled amount of material upon deposit of a prescribed coin. A high reservoir contains material such as candy or the like in suitable holders such as size-V plastic capsules. A coin-operated device, preferably including a coin slide mechanism, is manually operated by a customer. When the slide is pushed in and pulled out by the customer, he contributes energy to the apparatus which is utilized in dispensing the material in an amusing way. In one embodiment, the act of moving the coin slide causes a relatively heavy steel ball to be elevated to a position where it engages a transportation device such as a simulated coal car or bulldozer. The transportation device carries the plastic capsule from a loading station (immediately below the reservoir) to an unloading station some distance away--where the capsule is dumped into a dispensing chute to be received by the customer.

Abstract: A receptacle for receiving and sequentially dispensing individual shaped bodies from a stack of like bodies. The receptacle has a pivotal cover at the dispensing end thereof and a cap mounted on said cover. The cap has a skirt extending around the pivotal cover. This skirt has a first portion engaging the cover, a second portion adapted to engage the housing of the receptacle when the cover is pivoted toward an open position and a pair of elastically deformable portions intermediate said first and second portions. The elastically deformable portions constitute a spring for biasing the pivoted cover into its closed position. The cover also has a finger portion for pushing the uppermost shaped body and dispensing it from the receptacle when the cover is pivoted against the spring bias.