Chute Patents (Class 312/124)
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Patent number: 6820753Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 21, 2002Date of Patent: November 23, 2004Assignee: Lisle CorporationInventors: Scotty R. Kurtz, Marvin C. Negley, Sandor Epstein
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Patent number: 6182842Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 14, 1999Date of Patent: February 6, 2001Inventor: Christopher P. Dowling
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Patent number: 5882094Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 20, 1997Date of Patent: March 16, 1999Inventor: Clifford M. Parsley
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Patent number: 5860714Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 16, 1997Date of Patent: January 19, 1999Inventor: Charles Robert Skord, Jr.
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Patent number: 5549372Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 10, 1995Date of Patent: August 27, 1996Inventor: Michael W. Lewis
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Patent number: 5072997Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 9, 1990Date of Patent: December 17, 1991Assignee: The Meyer CompanyInventor: John T. Mayfield, III
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Patent number: 4909578Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 21, 1989Date of Patent: March 20, 1990Assignee: Structural Display, Inc.Inventor: William S. Abbate
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Patent number: 4530549Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 2, 1983Date of Patent: July 23, 1985Assignee: Neil C. RussoInventor: Salvatore A. Genna
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Patent number: 4318577Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 15, 1980Date of Patent: March 9, 1982Assignee: Bunsmaster Bakeries of America, Inc.Inventor: Romanino Vona