A feed mechanism for a photocopy or similar machine directs the media, particularly wide-format media, into a receiving tray along a path which is substantially parallel to, but in the opposite direction of, the original media path. This allows for the removal of media from the front of the photocopy machine. With the drive mechanism in a first configuration, the leading edge of the media is fed directly into the receiving tray. Responsive to a position of the leading edge of the media, the driv...

A sealing apparatus for shielding air from a path of molten steel in a laddle to a tundish in continuous metal casting facilities to prevent oxidation of the molten metal, the apparatus including a seal box lift mechanism mounted on a tundish body through a bracket and including a drive member and a lift rod member to be vertically moved up and down by the drive member; a seal box including an outer cylinder fixedly mounted on a tundish cover and extending into the tundish, and an inner cylinder...

A vending machine has a carousel containing several rotatable trays stacked one above another. The trays carry and present for vending selected items, such as food and merchandise. The carousel is contained in a housing or canister and is part of an integrated assembly with a coin container. The carousel is filled at a central depot rather than at the site where the machine is installed for use by customers. The customer locations have the cabinet of the machine. Fixed in the cabinet is a drive ...

An apparatus for stacking and storing articles and subsequently unstacking the articles. The apparatus includes a first conveyor to convey a plurality of articles, and a plurality of secondary conveyors are disposed normal to a side edge of the first conveyor. To store the articles, each article is stopped on the conveyor and is pushed laterally from the main conveyor into bearing engagement against a movable stop member on a secondary conveyor. Additional articles are pushed onto the secondary ...

An ice-cream ejector for ejecting ice-cream filled with solid ingredients into an edible cone from a cup having a lower outlet. The cup is supported on a sliding shelf. A piston is pressed downwardly into the cup by a hand lever to press the ice cream out. The piston is quickly removable from the ejector for cleaning. A flexible resilient header extends across the underside of the piston and is removable for cleaning. A disposable piston cover of wax paper clings to the piston header as the pist...

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 ...

An apparatus for suspending garments on hangers has an indexible conveyor for three equidistant hanger holders. When the conveyor is idle, each holder is located at one of three different stations. A mechanism at the first station serves to introduce an empty hanger into the pocket of the holder at the first station. Such holder is then moved to the second station where an operator applies one or more articles of clothing to the holder and to the hanger in the respective pocket. The conveyor is ...

A self-enclosed tablet dispenser for dispensing tablets into liquid-filled containers, such as swimming pools, including a first tube to hold the tablets, a base connected to the first tube with a horizontal passageway in which a plunger slidably reciprocates to move the tablet from the bottom of the first tube at one end of the passageway to the other end of the passageway, and a second tube connected to the base at the other end of the passageway to guide the tablet into the liquid by gravity ...

This invention relates to the inspection of glass ampules to determine whether or not a complete score line is present. A laser beam is directed to the point on the ampule where a score line would be located. The laser beam is reflected in a diffuse or specular fashion depending upon whether or not a score line is present. By detecting the amount of light which is diffusely reflected in a particular direction, determination of the presence of a score line is possible. The same inspection may be ...

A diverter valve assembly and priority control circuit for use in an ice distribution system having an ice source and first and second ice delivery stations, the valve assembly comprising a valve body having an inlet section communicable with the ice source, and first and second outlet sections communicable with the first and second delivery stations, respectively; the valve assembly including a valve body having a central valve chamber communicable with the inlet and outlet sections and having ...