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Patent No. 5678617

Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter

A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.

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Assignee: The Monarch Machine Tool Company


Location: Sidney, OH
No. of patents: 12

NumberTitleIssue Date
5088182Turret changer
A machine tool such as a lathe having an automatically changeable tool turret and a turret changer, carried on the bed of the machine, that dismounts a turret from a spindle of a turret index unit and mounts a replacement turret thereon. Transfer of a tur...
02/18/1992
5033340Apparatus and method for tool vibration damping
High frequency vibrations of a boring bar cutting tip are minimized by use of a damping sandwich of plural layers of steel and plural alternate layers of viscoelastic solid material. This damping sandwich is placed at a joint in the machine tool between t...
07/23/1991
5007151Machine tool turret
A machine tool turret, usable in a machine tool having a rotatable workpiece spindle, that includes first and second tool spindles journaled on the turret. The turret is mounted for compound movement in an x-c plane defined by an x axis perpendicular to t...
04/16/1991
4856153Spindle mechanism
A spindle mechanism is capable of rotating for a rotative tool and is capable of being locked for mounting a nonrotative tool. First and second curvic couplings may be forced into engagement by a large hydraulic force which concurrently unloads a combined...
08/15/1989
4827801Offset indexable fixture
A rotatable offset indexable fixture is rotatable by being mounted on a work spindle. A faceplate is journaled on the fixture for rotation about an indexing axis parallel to but spaced from the workpiece spindle axis. A workpiece may be secured to the fac...
05/09/1989
4736512Tool and work changer assembly
A combined tool and work changer assembly is disclosed for a machine tool wherein a carrier moves in a first path on an elongated beam parallel to the length of the machine tool. Both the tool changer and workpiece are mounted on the carrier and the tool ...
04/12/1988
4604810Post process diameter gage
A diameter gage is disclosed which measures a plurality of diameters on a workpiece after the workpiece has been machined. First and second U-shaped gage frames mount first and second gage blocks relative to a gage platform, and this gage platform is move...
08/12/1986
4347723Method and apparatus for tensioning metallic strips on a slitting line
A method of tensioning metallic strips on a slitting line is combined with the steps of uncoiling a metallic web having a non-uniform cross sectional thickness from an uncoiler, slitting the web into a plurality of strips having varying thicknesses, and r...
09/07/1982
4300418Tool turret mechanism
A tool turret mechanism is for use with a machine tool having a rotatable workpiece spindle. The axis of the turret is at a small acute angle to the axis of the workpiece spindle for tool clearance and the turret has first and second surface portions moun...
11/17/1981
4298633Method and apparatus for tensioning metallic strips on a slitting line
A method of tensioning metallic strips on a slitting line is combined with the steps of uncoiling a metallic web having a non-uniform cross sectional thickness from an uncoiler, slitting the web into a plurality of strips having varying thicknesses, and r...
11/03/1981
4122597Tool utilization mechanism
A tool storage mechanism is disclosed wherein a tool storage magazine is mounted by a pivotal connection to a vertically movable tool slide. The tool slide also carries a horizontally movable tool slide carrying a rotatable tool for operating on a workpie...
10/31/1978
4075753Plural slide machine
A plural slide machine is disclosed for machining a first and a second workpiece comprising a first and a second slide for respectively receiving the first and the second workpiece. The first and second slides are mounted on ways for movement in a substan...
02/28/1978
 
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