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A heated water dispensing apparatus has been described. The heated water dispensing apparatus includes a reservoir for retaining a quantity of water, a selector for selecting a temperature of water and a volume of water to be dispensed, and a controllable dispense valve for automatically dispensing water from the reservoir. The heated water dispensing apparatus also includes a weighing assembly which generates a weight control signal relating to the volume of water dispensed through the dispense valve and at least one device outlet valve for providing heated water to a remote device. The heated water dispensing apparatus also includes a controller. The controller operates the dispense valve in accordance with the weight control signal so that a selected volume of water is automatically and accurately dispensed. The controller also operates the dispense valve to prevent dispensing of water through the dispense valve before water of a selected temperature has been produced. The controller operates the device outlet valve so that a predetermined quantity of water at a predetermined flowrate and a predetermined temperature is dispensed to a selected remote device.

An automatic beverage brewing apparatus is described. The automatic beverage brewing apparatus includes a controllable brewing device and a controllable brewing substance dispenser communicating with the brewing device. The automatic beverage brewing apparatus includes a housing in which at least one receptacle is retained proximate the brewing device for receiving brewed beverage from the brewing device. A plurality of controllable dispense valves are provided for controlling the flow of brewed beverage from the brewing device to the receptacles. Each receptacle includes a controllable outlet valve for automatically dispensing brewed beverage from the receptacle and a controllable disposal valve for automatically emptying the receptacle of brewed beverage. Each receptacle is supported on a weight sensing device which generates a weight control signal relating to the weight of brewed beverage retained in the receptacle. A controller receives the weight control signals and determines in response to each weight control signal the volume of brewed beverage retained within in a receptacle. The controller operates the dispensing valves, controllable outlet valves, and controllable disposal valves in accordance with the determined volumes.

A package includes a slide card that is received in an outer sleeve having a false end wall. The false end wall extends between a top wall and a bottom wall to enhance the structural integrity of the outer sleeve. The false end wall provides child resistance in that it prevents a user from manipulating the outer sleeve to inadvertently disengage a locking feature that lockably retains a slide card in the outer sleeve. The false end wall also prevents a user from accessing the slide card through an opening that is created by removing an end wall.

A chemical solution is uniformly dispensed from a nozzle by N₂ in spin-coating equipment. The dispensing apparatus includes a canister configured to receive a bottle containing the chemical solution, gas supply piping connecting a source of N₂ to the inside of the canister, a pressure control valve disposed in the gas supply piping, a chemical supply line by which the bottle is connected to the nozzle, a pressure sensor for sensing the pressure of the chemical solution supplied from the bottle, and a controller that controls the pressure control valve on the basis of the pressure sensed by the pressure sensor. The controller opens the pressure control valve further when the value of the signal output by the pressure sensor is less than a value representative of the minimum of a predetermined pressure range, and closes the pressure control valve further when the value of the signal output by the pressure sensor is greater than a value representative of the maximum of the predetermined pressure range. The degree to which the pressure control is open is thus controlled by feedback from the pressure control sensor such that the pressure of the chemical solution remains substantially constant as it is dispensed from the nozzle.

Readable tags on paint chips and on paint cans are used to manage the dispensing of tinted paint to customers so that the paint chips can be monitored to control the recipes and the inventory of chips and the paint cans can be detected to ensure the use of authenticated paint. The tags are preferably contact readable by printed conductors on the chips and on the cans. Further tags can be used to input further paint characteristics. The tinting machine can also store in memory the tint recipe used in a particular can so that it can be later reproduced in a second can. An over-ride switch is provided in the case the system fails and if the customer wants a particular recipe, in which case the recipe actually dispensed is stored in memory. Analysis of the can codes is carried out to prevent counterfeiting of the cans is carried out either in real time or subsequently.

An inhaler is provided with a closure which may be moved between a closed and open position in order to cover and uncover a mouthpiece. The closure is associated with a revolvable element comprising a restricting member. Movement of the closure from the open position to the closed position causes the revolvable element to revolve around an axis X thereby placing the restricting member in a restricting position which restricts relative movement between a container unit and the housing such that unintentional actuation of the inhaler is prevented. The inhaler is useful, for example, in the treatment of asthma.

A method of filling a baby bottle is provided which comprises providing a baby bottle containing a hermetically sealed bottle liner, which contains a measured amount of powdered infant formula. The bottle liner comprises a lip retainer for preventing the bottle liner from falling into the bottle. The hermetic seal on the bottle liner may be opened. The method includes disposing filtered, heated water into the liner to mix with the powdered infant formula. A cap and nipple assembly is applied to the bottle.

A display and dispensing device for lottery-type tickets or the like that is securable to prevent the dispensing of the tickets when desired. The device includes a housing of box-like configuration having an open rear end, a door pivotally attached to the housing open end and a security shield pivotally attached to the door and being alternatively located in an open condition allowing said lottery tickets to be dispensed and a closed condition blocking the dispensing of said tickets.

A money handling machine of the present invention includes a denomination-specific storing portion, money transport unit that transports money to a dispending portion and transport starting unit that starts, with the money transport unit, transport of the money stored in the denomination-specific storing portion. The money handling machine receives an instruction to dispense money, performs dispensing money in which the amount of money to be dispensed out of the money stored in the denomination-specific storing portion is only transported to the dispensing portion and performs dispensing limitation processing in which the transport of money determined not to be allowed to be dispensed is prevented from being completed. The dispensing processing includes the first step of starting the transport of the amount of money corresponding to the instruction to dispense money and the second step of transporting, after completion of the first step, money from the denomination-specific storing portion to the dispensing portion such that a shortage of dispensed money produced by performing the dispensing limitation processing is replenished. In this way, it is possible not only to prevent money that is not allowed to be dispensed from being dispensed and to accurately dispense money corresponding to the instruction to dispense money but also to more quickly perform the dispensing processing.

The present invention is generally directed to a method of dispensing regulated items, particularly drugs, directly to the patient via a dispensing system, without pharmacist intervention, that reduces human error associated with dispensing regulated items wherein a manufacturer or distributor of a regulated item establishes a dispensing system in communication with a data base wherein a prescriber is registered and enters patient data such as which regulated item is prescribed for the patient, characteristics such as sex, age, height, weight, etc., any other drugs the patient is currently taking or has a prescription for, any allergies to any particular drugs, substances, components, etc., reliable data for verifying the identity of the patient, and subsequently dispensing a regulated item directly to the patient from said dispensing system without pharmacist intervention, including communicating any necessary educational or instructional information to the patient concerning the regulated item and verifying the steps to the data base.

These disadvantages of previously known devices, the present invention provides a vacuum released valve which closes an opening into a reservoir to passage therethrough until a sufficient vacuum is created with the reservoir as on initial dispensing of fluid from the reservoir.

Some embodiments of the invention relate to a system for delivering to a subject at least one pre-determined amount of THC, the system comprising: a memory which stores a scheduled regimen for delivery of THC to the subject, the scheduled regimen defining: a maximal amount of THC to be delivered, the amount being 0.75 mg THC or less, and a time period within which that amount is delivered, the time period being 2 hours or longer; a decision module which decides, according to the scheduled regimen, if a delivery should take place; and an inhaler device for delivering THC to the subject, the inhaler device comprising a controller which carries out delivery of THC based on the decision made by the decision module.

Systems and methods for fuel dispenser security are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a user seeking access to a protected function of the fuel dispenser is presented with a challenge that is encrypted using a secret key that is unique to the fuel dispenser. To access the secured function, the user must obtain a session password from a server which authenticates the user, decrypts the challenge using a counterpart of the secret key, determines whether the user is authorized to access the secured function, and returns the session password extracted from the challenge only when the user is authorized. The server can thus control access to certain fuel dispenser functions according to a set of user access privileges. The challenge can also include additional information which can be used by the fuel dispenser and/or by the server to store a log of access activity.

A fluid dispenser comprising:

• • a fluid reservoir (1); and
  • a pump (3) comprising a pump body (30) and an actuator rod (34), defining between them a pump chamber (33) having a predetermined maximum volume, the rod (34) being axially movable in the body (30) so as to vary the volume of the pump chamber (33);
  • the dispenser being characterized in that it further comprises a dispenser cannula (5) that is mounted on the actuator rod (34) and that includes a dispenser outlet (52) that is suitable for forming a drop of fluid that separates from the cannula (5) by gravity, the determined maximum volume of the pump chamber (33) being substantially equal to the volume of the drop of fluid that is dispensed at the dispenser outlet (52).

The present invention relates to a system and assembly for refilling a reservoir with liquid dispensed from a dispenser, in particular, but not exclusively, to a system and assembly for the substantially leak-free refilling of the reservoir of a smoking-substitute device with a liquid comprising nicotine from a refill dispenser. The assembly is configured to provide a gas communication pathway through the assembly and physically separate from the liquid communication pathway for venting gas from an end of the assembly proximal the first aperture to an exterior of the assembly responsive to the movement of the assembly to the secured and open configuration, the assembly configured to close the gas communication pathway in the unsecured and closed configuration

A medicament dispensing device has a case with an upper portion, a lower portion, and a central portion. The device also has a plunger made up of a head and a stem. The head of the plunger is configured to contact a cartridge containing medicament that is receivable within the central portion of the case. The device also has a dosing assembly coupled to the stem and disposed partially within the case. The dosing assembly is selectively inhibited by a control system that limits the displacement of the dosing assembly and plunger within the case. The device also has a customizable dispensing assembly coupled to the upper portion and configured to receive medicament from the cartridge upon application of force from the plunger.

A rotationally controlled cosmetic powder dose dispenser with a sifter cup pivotally retained by a sifter housing. Opposed arcuate slots are disposed in the bottom wall of the sifter housing and first and second series of apertures are disposed in opposed arcuate configurations in the bottom wall of the sifter cup. The series of apertures and the arcuate slots can be selectively aligned to dispense a volume of cosmetic powder into a sifter jar that is removably coupled to the sifter housing. The sifter housing has a rim received between an outer cylindrical wall and a peripheral wall of the sifter cup, and the sifter jar has a rim received between an outer cylindrical wall and a peripheral wall of the sifter housing in a threaded engagement.