US PATENT SUBCLASS 221 / 2
WITH RECORDER, REGISTER, INDICATOR, SIGNAL OR EXHIBITOR

Current as of: June, 1999
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221 /   HD   ARTICLE DISPENSING

2WITH RECORDER, REGISTER, INDICATOR, SIGNAL OR EXHIBITOR {5}
3  DF  .~> Audible
4  DF  .~> Dispenser part position or adjustment indicator {1}
6  DF  .~> Empty source indicating means
7  DF  .~> Dispenser operated register
8  DF  .~> Dispenser operated display device

DEFINITION

Classification: 221/2

(under the class definition) Dispensers having (1) signals, indicators, registers, recorders or gauges for indicating a condition, or the position of a dispenser part such devices consisting of relatively movable changeable, or audible information giving parts, or (2) changeable indicia bearing or display devices which are operable by the movement of dispenser parts.

(1) Note. For classification in this subclass there must be either an indicia or audible signal of some type. Relative to visual indicia, there must be graduations or markings in the disclosure as claimed and, for display devices, some visual indication, sign or disposition of material (other than the source of supply). Where it is indicated that the mere position of a dispenser part is indicative of a condition of the dispenser, classification is in the appropriate subclass below unless some cooperating indicia are included. A mere transparent viewing means is not considered to be a signal, indicator or display device in the absence of indicia, and such dispensers are classified in subclass 155 of this class.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

155, see (1) Note above.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

40, Card, Picture, or Sign Exhibiting, appropriate subclass for exhibitors where no significant dispensing features are claimed, and see the reference to that class in section V of the class definition of this class (221).

116, Signals and Indicators, appropriate subclasses for signal structure combined with article dispensing where no significant dispensing features are claimed even though a dispenser is named as operating the signal or indicator. See the class definition of this class (221) for a statement of the class lines. 222, Dispensing,

23+, for similar combinations in fluent material dispensers, and see the notes thereto.

340, Communications: Electrical,

500+, for electrical automatic condition responsive condition indicating systems.