| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6043732 |
Vacuum activated switch and container |
March 28, 2000 |
| A vacuum activated switch for use in or with a drinking container and straw. The switch includes a flexible membrane, a traveling contact which rests on the flexible membrane, and a fixed contact which is mounted on an integrated circuit board. Suction upon the straw creates a partial va |
| 5446343 |
Anti-flicker night light |
August 29, 1995 |
| A capacitive element is introduced in series with the gate of a switching element in an automatic turn on/off circuit which automatically provides artificial light depending on the ambient light incident on a photo sensitive element of the circuit wherein the capacitive element holds an |
| 5218956 |
Hand-held oral irrigating device |
June 15, 1993 |
| An oral irrigator device is formed of an adapter mountable in interposed relation between a supply pipe of treatment liquid, generally water, and a shower head, a user-graspable handpiece, and a flexible liquid-communicating hose connecting the adapter and handpiece. A rotatable turb |
| 5000345 |
Automated drinkmaker system |
March 19, 1991 |
| An automated drinkmaker system which is designed to accept an input drink order, as from a cash register, and deliver the drink order, for different sizes and different flavors, with or without ice, completely finished in lidded containers to an output station. The automated drinkmaker s |
| 4949526 |
Lid dispenser for an automated drinkmaker system |
August 21, 1990 |
| An automatic lid dispensing and applicator arrangement for an automated drinkmaker machine. The lidding arrangement automatically separates lids from a stack of lids and applies the separated lids onto cups. A large supply of lids is maintained in a rotatable lid supply carousel. A lid |
