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Joel A Carpenter

Robert A Ziegler

Thomas J Pigott

Apparatus such as a vending machine can store custom-decorated physical products to be dispensed or made available to users and consumers based on a color sampling of another object or person. The invention also includes the method of creating the packaging of the products based on the color sampling of the object or person.

Color sampling system for on-demand customized packaging

A canister with a novel dispensing aperture is described. The aperture is located within a continuous surface opposite the seamed canister end. By thus locating the aperture, canister contents may be dispensed or sipped without the interference of debris-collecting grooves, seam edges, and sharp angles typical of canisters with dispensing apertures located on seamed ends.

Canister with dispersing aperture

A precipitation removal apparatus includes a satellite dish that is positioned on a mounting. An arm is attached to the mounting. A signal receptor is mounted on a post attached to the arm and is directed toward the dish. A tube is fluidly coupled to a top wall of a housing assembly, and a fan is mounted on a bottom wall of the housing assembly for directing air through an opening in the bottom wall. A heating element is mounted in the housing assembly. A bracket removably attaches the housing assembly to the arm so that the second end of the tube is directed adjacent and parallel to an outer surface of the signal receptor. The fan and heating element are turned on and warm air ejected outwardly of the tube.

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Bangor, MI, United States of America

Joel A Carpenter