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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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4079762 | Spirally discharging nozzle and poppet valve for non-splash discharge of liquids into cans or the like The application discloses a valve and nozzle device for filling liquid into open-top cans or other receptacles one at a time, travelling on a conveyor. A commercial requirement is top speed achievable, and the conveyor moves the receptacles horizontally u... | 03/21/1978 |
| 4079634 | Two-speed, self-propelled dolly for moving and elevating a mobile home or other load A two-speed, self-propelled dolly intended for moving and elevating a load such as, for example, a mobile home. A generally rectangular frame is supported by a pair of endless belt tracks mounted on its opposite sides. A load engaging member is raised and... | 03/21/1978 |
| 4078656 | Kit for obtaining specimen on a glass slide A package is provided for containing and delivering to a physician, laboratory or hospital a glass slide fastened removably in position, spatula, tongue depressors, etc., for use in obtaining a specimen, and retaining it on the glass slide during transpor... | 03/14/1978 |
| 4046235 | Automatic load brake The disclosure is of an improvement of automatic load brakes, of the type generally and generically known as a Weston disk brake, as used, for example, in braking a hoisting drum adapted for reeling in and reeling out a cable suspending a load. The fricti... | 09/06/1977 |
| 4039119 | Tray for berry baskets, with clips and cover sheet The disclosure is of a combination of plastic clips, stack of berry basket trays and paperboard dust cover secured thereby. The clip is constructed of plastics material, adapted to secure together, in a stack, a number of berry box trays, all of the gener... | 08/02/1977 |
| 4039121 | Clip for use with berry basket trays in stacks and cover sheet The disclosure is of a clip, constructed of plastics material, adapted to secure together, in a stack, a number of berry box trays, all of the general type disclosed in my prior U.S. Pat. No. 3,750,936, the clips being adapted to operate at certain times ... | 08/02/1977 |
| 4036384 | Truck for transport of airplane by its nose landing wheel The disclosure is of a wheeled truck or transport vehicle, adapted for elevating and supporting the nose wheel of an airplane, of the small or private class, and transporting it about the landing field. The truck has a horizontal nose roller, adapted to b... | 07/19/1977 |
| 4025717 | High voltage shielded cable splice A splice for a shielded high voltage cable wherein a section of electrical shielding sleeve of the original cable is replaced by an open-mesh sleeve, and the latter is concentrically supported on the connector sleeve by a polyurethane helix. A polyvinyl c... | 05/24/1977 |
| 4023744 | Winch with cable tensioning device operable during reeling out and reeling in The disclosure is of a system for maintaining tension in a cable during winding off or on a power driven cable drum. The cable winds off or back onto the cable drum over a roller means, e.g., between a pair of parallel geared-together traction rollers, or... | 05/17/1977 |
| 4023904 | Optical microcircuit printing process A process is disclosed for exposing to ultraviolet light a semi-conductor or hybrid substrate coated with photo-resist, in back of a mask having bars and very narrow slits, the diffraction patterns ordinarily experienced at the substrate being virtually e... | 05/17/1977 |
| 4019003 | Multi-directional sensor switch with auxiliary actuating structure A sensor switch is described for use within an object handling conveying system such as a baggage conveying system, adapted for actuation by passing objects, such as baggage, though not limited thereto, or a transport vehicle, for objects or materials, by... | 04/19/1977 |
| 4017917 | Cover The application discloses a rigid or semi-rigid, two-part confining cover for a patient in a conventional hospital bed. The problem dealt with is that of a disturbed patient who would normally require confinement by ties, straps, or other conventional res... | 04/19/1977 |
| 4016827 | Magnetically coupled indicator means for control setting A magnetized pointer in conjunction with a dial scale affixed to a supporting panel, on the opposite side of which is located a rotary device such as a potentiometer, to the shaft of which is attached a magnet, the poles of which will cause the opposite p... | 04/12/1977 |
| 4011992 | System for heat conditioning of non-stick liquid preparation for spraying on grill The invention comprises a device for spraying a viscous non-stick, liquid cooking preparation onto a grill heated to a predetermined temperature, and includes a stand resting on the heated grill, such that heat from the grill, by both conduction and radia... | 03/15/1977 |
| 4007987 | Vacuum contact printing system and process for electronic circuit photomask replication There is disclosed a vacuum contact printer and process for printing copy plates from master photomask plates depicting electronic circuitry. The printer embodies a vacuum-tight enclosure or casing, containing three vacuum chambers, two outside master and copy... | 02/15/1977 |
| 4001773 | Acoustic telemetry system for oil wells utilizing self generated noise An acoustic communication method and system are disclosed for transmitting information through a well-bore drill string by using the acoustic noise inherently generated in the drill string by drilling operations as a "carrier" propagated therealong to be ... | 01/04/1977 |
| 3989140 | Apparatus for unitizing stacked product containers for shipment The invention provides cleats or bars for interlocking produce lug boxes at the top tier of multiple tier columns of such boxes arranged on a pallet in a unitized stack. The lug boxes have rectangular plastic frames at their ends, surmounted by spacers, a... | 11/02/1976 |
| 3978310 | Machine for repair of crankshafts by welding There is disclosed a machine for successively applying weld metal to the journals and crankpins of an automotive crankshaft, by rotating the crankshaft on its axis, and employing a means for causing a weld metal feeding torch to follow the crankpin around... | 08/31/1976 |
| 3964318 | Disconnect device for aircraft pitch or roll control system A device is disclosed by which two paired controls in an aircraft flight control system, such as pitch controls, or the roll controls, which are ordinarily operated in coordination by the pilot by use of a single operating control may, when the control on... | 06/22/1976 |
| 3958792 | Valve with radially expansive valve plug A novel cylindrical valve plug for the ported bore in valve, particularly a class of hot and cold water mixing valves, is disclosed. The plug, in an illustrative embodiment, comprises an inner cylindrical core, a non-metallic, yieldable elastic sleeve com... | 05/25/1976 |
| 3958740 | Automatic component assembly machine and method relating thereto A programmable manipulation machine for picking up a succession of small components, such as semiconductor chips, and placing them precisely in predetermined positions on a work-piece, such as a substrate. The machine includes a vacuum chuck assembly whic... | 05/25/1976 |
| 3946915 | Garment hanger with clamp guard The disclosure is of a trousers or skirt hanger comprising a horizontal beam provided with a support hook, and having integrally formed with each end thereof, a depending clamp frame or jaw, with a garment gripper at the lower end thereof, each depending ... | 03/30/1976 |
| 3941475 | Optical microcircuit printing system A system is disclosed for exposing to ultraviolet light a semi-conductor or hybrid substrate coated with photo-resist, in back of a mask having bars and very narrow slits, the diffraction patterns ordinarily experienced at the substrate being virtually el... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3935991 | Plastic reinforced produce container A reinforced paperboard produce container having reinforcing end frames of molded thermosetting plastic or other suitably rigid construction secured to the outer sides of the end walls of a paperboard container body with edge flanges on the frames project... | 02/03/1976 |
| 3935990 | Plastic reinforced produce container A reinforced paperboard produce container having reinforcing end frames of molded thermosetting plastic or other suitably rigid construction secured to the outer sides of the end walls of a paperboard container body with edge flanges on the frames project... | 02/03/1976 |
