Finger Actuated (e.g., Key Button) Patents (Class 453/47)
  • Patent number: 8490828
    Abstract: A package for product pieces includes a housing having a plurality of walls forming an interior adapter to hold a plurality of product pieces. The housing has a dispensing opening in communication with the interior. A resilient member is disposed in the housing interior and is adapted to urge the product pieces toward the dispensing opening. The housing has an aperture formed in one of the plurality of walls disposed adjacent the dispensing opening to permit the product piece to be engaged and moved out of the interior through the dispensing opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Kraft Foods Global, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. Kaiser, Francis G. Schiro, Allen Aldridge
  • Patent number: 6843715
    Abstract: Container-dispenser (10) for coins (20) comprising housing seatings (19) able to accommodate coins (20) of a defined value, the base (11) being associated with expulsion means (26) able to be selectively positioned in correspondence with one of the housing seatings (19) at a time to push and expel a relative coin (20). The housing seatings (19) are defined by dividing walls (15) including elastic appendixes (16) cooperating with the perimeter of the coins (20), to hold them in the housing seatings (19), which temporarily deform when the coins (20) are pushed by the expulsion means (26), to allow them to exit from the relative housing seating (19).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Microstamp Srl
    Inventor: Dino Munini
  • Patent number: 4928970
    Abstract: A bingo chip dispenser is set forth utilizing an elongate cylinder including a pivotally mounted lid with a lowermost hood oriented relative to an opening within the cylinder. A plunger is diametrically aligned with and opposed to the opening within the hood and further includes a thumb loop secured to the hood and a forward wall of the cylinder with an index and middle finger loop positioned diametrically opposed to the thumb loop with the thumb loop aligned with the middle finger loop to provide a coacting force applied to the plunger, wherein the middle finger loop is directed rearwardly of the index finger loop and beyond a floor of the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1990
    Inventor: Richard G. Latimer, Jr.