The Singer Company

L&p Property Management Company

Automatic Timing & Controls, Inc.

George D LaPolice

Rafael T Bustos

Albert L Newman

Robert W Busch, Jr

A laser diode ( ) emits laser light which is collimated into parallel rays with a collimating lens ( ). The collimated beams travel about 5 to 50 cm before being reflected back to an adjustable mirror ( ), to a fixed mirror ( ), and then on to a photoreceiver ( ). The adjustable mirror ( ) is pivoted by turning an adjusting screw ( ). The adjustable mirror ( ) has a toothed cam ( ) on its backside that mate with the threads of the adjusting screw ( ). When the adjusting screw ( ) is turned, it forces the cam to move with it, thus changing the angle of the adjustable mirror ( ). A ball lens ( ) focuses the reflected light onto the photoreceiver ( ). The photoreceiver ( ) and laser diode ( ) are synchronized so that the receiver ( ) can only receive light during appropriate windows of time corresponding to when the laser light was emitted. The photoreceiver ( ) has the ability to tell when it is and when it is not receiving laser light and has the ability to initiate action based upon that information.

Adjustable mirror for collimated beam laser sensor

A system is provided for vending food products such as individually packaged beverages from a temperature maintained storage unit to a remote location such as a service counter or the service island of a gasoline service facility. Preferably, a pneumatic tube conveyor moves the product from storage to a dispensing unit at the remote location in response to product selection made by a customer at the remote location. Preferably, payment for the sale of the product item is coordinated with information from another vending or accounting system such as a gasoline charge system that includes a credit card reader associated with a fully automated self-service gasoline pump. The product is moved through the conveyor in a reusable carrier or in its own product packaging container that serves as a carrier.

Temperature maintained food dispensing system and method

Sewing machine or similar article

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Sewing machine

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Somerville, NJ, United States of America

George D LaPolice