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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 |
| 4777544 | Method and apparatus for in-situ measurement of head/recording medium clearance A method and apparatus for measuring the flying height of a slider supporting a magnetic transducer in-situ in a direct manner in an operational magnetic disk storage system. The method and apparatus produce relative motion between the magnetic transducer... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4771328 | Semiconductor device and process A method of integrated circuit fabrication and the resulting integrated circuit wherein areas of recessed oxide isolation surround active device regions and the bird's head and bird's beak formed during formation of the recessed oxide regions is eliminate... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4771298 | Drop-on-demand print head using gasket fan-in An ink jet drop-on-demand print head comprises a plurality of electromechanical transducers, and ink from a manifold is conveyed to the transducers. The fluid path between the transducers and the corresponding nozzle in the nozzle array comprises a resili... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4771349 | Magnetoresistive read transducer A magnetoresistive (MR) read transducer assembly in which the thin film MR layer is longitudinally biased directly only in the end regions by exchange bias developed by a thin film of antiferromagnetic material that is deposited in direct contact only in ... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4719601 | Column redundancy for two port random access memory A memory system includes a data storage matrix having columns and rows and a redundant storage matrix having at least one column. The columns of the storage matrix are addressed by column addresses each defining a logical column address for a data bit of ... | 01/12/1988 |
| 4713773 | Method for distributing wire load in a multilayer package and the resulting product A method for distributing wire load among the layers of a multilayer interconnection package such that in each region of the package, the wire load is balanced among all layers and such that specified subsets of two-pin connections may be constrained to l... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4681467 | Impact printing applications A print actuator for dot matrix applications having a stator with a coil wrapped thereon and constrained by the walls of the stator. An armature extends above the stator in a cantilever or pivoted manner. The armature controls movement of a print element.... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4607351 | Cartridge memory protection Cartridge (1) contains memory (40a-40h) and a back-up battery (13). Terminals (5a-5i) of the cartridge (1) plug into termnals (7a-7i) of a host machine (3). Positive deactivation of the write control is achieved by both the base and emitter of a bipolar t... | 08/19/1986 |
| 4604966 | Continuous solder paste dispenser Apparatus for applying solder paste to printed circuit boards ("PCB's") in a continuous operation. A drum containing solder paste is positioned over a work station and has an outlet slot through which the solder paste can be discharged onto the surface of... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4451825 | Digital data display system A digital data display system in which the display device includes a plurality of random access stores into which character cell definitions are loaded from a remote central processing unit. A character cell may be a 9×16 picture element matrix and each ... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4404519 | Testing embedded arrays in large scale integrated circuits An integrated circuit chip having an embedded array which is not directly accessible from the primary input/output chip pins is manufactured with additional test circuitry directly on the chip, such that the performance of the array may be physically test... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4395165 | Chip shuttle track A transport system is disclosed, including an air film shuttle conveyor for conveying semiconductor chips from a loading to an unloading station, the conveyor comprising a base plate and upstanding side guide walls extending longitudinally of the base pla... | 07/26/1983 |
