Chute Patents (Class 312/124)
  • Patent number: 6820753
    Abstract: A disposable glove dispenser bracket includes a back panel with a magnetic pad attached thereto for supporting the dispenser and lateral side panels with flanges to grip and hold a glove dispenser box. A biasing spring maintains the glove dispenser box appropriately positioned within the dispenser bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Lisle Corporation
    Inventors: Scotty R. Kurtz, Marvin C. Negley, Sandor Epstein
  • Patent number: 6182842
    Abstract: A bin filling chute is useful for filling the compartments of a parts storage bin and also for filling stackable singular compartments, as well as compartments having a lip of some sort. The filling chute has a floor with upstanding side walls. A brace projects transversely from the floor. A leg of the brace makes a predetermined angle of approximately 45 degrees with the floor. The chute first end is placed inside a selected compartment to be filled. The brace leg is inserted into the vertical spaces between the compartment side partitions and the front barrier of the selected compartment. The chute floor then makes the predetermined angle with the compartment bottom wall. Small components dropped onto the chute floor at its second end slide by gravity along the floor to fill the selected compartment. In a modified embodiment, the chute has hooks that are generally coplanar with the brace leg. The hooks support the chute on the barrier of the next higher compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Inventor: Christopher P. Dowling
  • Patent number: 5882094
    Abstract: A recessed storage cabinet includes a face, a back, a top, a bottom, and opposite sides. A plurality of vertically elongated compartments are defined by a plurality of partitions extending between the top and bottom, and between the face and back. An in-feed aperture and an out-feed aperture are positioned through the face at respectively the top and bottom of each compartment. Articles are stored in the compartments by being inserted individually through the in-feed apertures, and retrieved individually through the out-feed apertures. A door is hinged to the face at a vertical side. The cabinet is sized for recessed mounting within wall between studs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Inventor: Clifford M. Parsley
  • Patent number: 5860714
    Abstract: A vandal-proof vending machine includes a rigid frame housed within an opening of a building with a cabinet of the dispensing machine being housed entirely within the building and thereby being rendered inaccessible from the exterior. A front opening of the frame to which products housed in an interior of the cabinet can be viewed is protected by a laminate of tough transparent material and tough metal mesh. The cabinet has rollers at a bottom thereof and one corner is secured by pivots to a side of the frame. The cabinet can thereby be rolled between a closed dispensing position and an opened servicing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1999
    Inventor: Charles Robert Skord, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5549372
    Abstract: A skill crane cabinet having an extruded aluminum frame assembly formed with channels selectively receiving panels forming the side, back and front walls of the cabinet. The panels have various decorative appearances to blend in and compliment the decor of the particular business establishment in which the cabinet is placed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1996
    Inventor: Michael W. Lewis
  • Patent number: 5072997
    Abstract: Dispensers for dispensing condiment packages and other articles. Such dispensers feature a front surface that contains a vertical succession of openings. Each opening dispenses a particular type of article, and is fed with articles that are supported by a curved floor that extends from adjacent the bottom of the opening upward and backward to the top area of the dispenser. The top surface of the dispensers may be positioned to open easily and thus allow easy access for loading and cleaning. The resulting dispensers economize on counter space, maintenance costs, and cleaning costs, and present condiment packages and other articles in an attractive, functional fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1991
    Assignee: The Meyer Company
    Inventor: John T. Mayfield, III
  • Patent number: 4909578
    Abstract: A display case for storing and displaying a plurality of items of overall general elongated rolled and cylindrical configuration has a housing for accommodating a plurality of the items with their axes parallel to each other. The housing has a front, a back spaced from and parallel to the front, a pair of spaced parallel sides perpendicular to and joining the front and back, a top and a bottom spaced from and parallel to the top and perpendicular to the front, back and sides. An incline is formed in the housing on the bottom and back thereof and descends from the back to the front. A bottom opening is formed in front for accommodating the passage therethrough of one of the items at a time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1990
    Assignee: Structural Display, Inc.
    Inventor: William S. Abbate
  • Patent number: 4530549
    Abstract: A display case with shelves for supporting transparent display and dispensing bins, and the display case defines unclosed windows in the front thereof. The bins are supported on the shelves with the front walls thereof forming a closure for the open window and presenting the merchandise in the bins. The bins are generally of L-shape in side elevation having a tall forward hopper portion and a rear dispensing tray portion. The bins may be individually removed for refilling and returned to the display case. The display case and the bins are formed to provide an attractive display of the merchandise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1985
    Assignee: Neil C. Russo
    Inventor: Salvatore A. Genna
  • Patent number: 4318577
    Abstract: A self-cleaning bulk food display bin is disclosed which is adapted to be mounted in an opening in a wall. The bin includes a tray with a downwardly and forwardly inclined floor having a debris removal opening located adjacent to a front peripheral wall. A sneeze shield is located above and over the tray to define therebetween a vertical front bun removal opening and a rear bun loading opening. A bottom downwardly and rearwardly disposed panel conveys debris passing through the debris removal opening rearwardly behind the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1982
    Assignee: Bunsmaster Bakeries of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Romanino Vona