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Combination Beverage Container and Spittoon
A combination beverage container and spittoon includes a bottom portion including outer wall and a first inner wall defining a spittoon space.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4135214 | Method and apparatus for compressing facsimile transmission data A method and apparatus wherein novel adaptive encoding and decoding processes are utilized to reduce the quantity of symbols or descripters required to transmit or store different classes of digital information. The codes used to describe repetitious bina... | 01/16/1979 |
| 4107610 | Data transmission system using a sequential approximation encoding and decoding technique A data handling system for converting an analog signal into binary form for storage or transmission to a remote receiver and subsequent reconstruction back into a facsimile of the original analog signal. The encoder portion of the system, which is a synth... | 08/15/1978 |
| 4084196 | Electronic half-tone generating means for facsimile reproduction system An electronic half-tone generating circuit for enabling a black and white facsimile transmission system to accurately and efficiently transmit and reproduce images including shades of grey as well as black and white and including an integrator responsive ... | 04/11/1978 |
| 4000368 | Nonuniform clock generator for document reproduction apparatus An electronic nonuniform clock generating apparatus including a modulo N counter for counting uniform clock pulses in a controlled manner to develop a series of clock pulses which are nonlinearly related to the rotation of a scanning device to form a nonu... | 12/28/1976 |
| 3965290 | Video-to-binary conversion apparatus having moire suppression characteristics Video-to-binary conversion apparatus for use in image reproduction systems and the like to convert an input video signal to an output binary signal and comprising an output data normalizer for normalizing the binary output data signal relative to the inpu... | 06/22/1976 |
