Daniel Edward Green
Architects at Brentwood Blvd, Saint Louis, MO

6366196, Apr 2, 2002

Apr 25, 2000

09/558014

Daniel Green - Ladue MO 63124
Jace Curtis - Nashville TN

Daniel Green - St. Louis MO

G08B 500

34028609, 340326, 340332, 34082569, 34082572, 340 72, 340 106, 705 15, 705 26

A waiter paging system is provided for use in a restaurant. The system includes a plurality of table transmitters (there being one transmitter at each table) which transmit a “waiter call” signal and a plurality of pager units (there being one pager unit for each waiter). The pager unit notifies the waiter via a vibrator or buzzer that a request has been received and displays the request. In one embodiment, the system includes a central unit which receives the “waiter call” signal from the table transmitter and which effectively relays the “waiter call” signal to the pager units. In a second embodiment, there is no central unit. Rather, the waiter pager units receive the “waiter call” signal directly from the table transmitters. Each pager unit is associated with a set of tables (and hence table transmitters), each set of tables being fewer than all the tables in the restaurant. In either of the two systems, the set of tables with which an individual pager is associated can be selectively altered.

6206235, Mar 27, 2001

Jul 7, 1999

9/348786

Daniel Green - Ladue MO

B65G59/00, 7, B65H3/00, 7, G07F11/16

221251

A candy dispenser includes a container defining a chamber adapted to hold a plurality of pieces of candy in a random fashion. The container has sides, a top, and a bottom which define the chamber. A dispensing tube extends along one side of the container. An opening in the container places the chamber in communication with the dispensing tube. The opening is sized to admit a piece of candy from the chamber to the dispensing tube. A leaf spring is mounted to the bottom of the container. The spring has a spring arm which closes the bottom of the dispensing tube and an upwardly extending finger on the spring arm which is received in the dispensing tube. A plunger associated with the dispenser moves the leaf spring from a relaxed state in which the spring finger is in the dispensing tube and closes the opening to a primed state in which the spring arm is urged away from the dispensing tube a distance sufficient for the spring finger to clear the opening to allow a piece of candy to enter the dispensing tube. Upon release of the spring, the candy is urged up and out of the dispensing tube.