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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 |
| 4511952 | Fluid lamp assembly A fluid lamp assembly (10) converts a candlestick (24) to a fluid lamp. A rubber stopper (20) fits into cup (22) of the candlestick (24). The assembly (10) has a hollow glass container (12) with a bottom (14) having a pointed tip (16) which fits into hole... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4451152 | Method for measuring the radiation transmitting properties of a fluid There is disclosed a method for sampling and examining a fluid from a tank or flow line to determine density or turbidity, including a sampling chamber attached to the tank or line with a piston in a chamber. The piston is provided with a sealing ring whi... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4428370 | Insertion unit for a vaginal diaphragm An insertion unit for a vaginal diaphragm which is formed of a hollow tubular member with a plurality of flexible segments integral with the forward end to define an opening if flexed outwardly. A movable piston in the tubular member which holds the diaph... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4397515 | Center conductor element for female microwave coaxial connector An improved center conductor element for a miniature female, air dielectric, coaxial connector that has two concentric tubes, one of which is the inner and shorter tube and the other is the outer and longer tube. The inner shorter tube engages the pointed... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4380235 | Metered drop dispensers A metered drop dispenser utilizing a drop former in which the facing end walls of a pair of coplanar, spaced apart plate members form a channel which is open on two sides and which has outwardly flared end portions at the channel exit.... | 04/19/1983 |
| 4351872 | Unidirectional stretch mesh laminate and method An orthopedic traction harness which engages the skin around the limb to be put in traction. The traction harness comprises an inner, circumferentially adjustable, laminated traction band having an outer layer of a compressible sponge material, a central ... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4335835 | Device for the intravenous or enteric infusion of liquids into the human body at a predetermined constant rate A portable device for accurately metering a liquid for intravenous or enteric infusion into a patient's body in which the pressure from a pressure source is utilized to pressurize the liquid and the pressurized liquid becomes the sole driving force to met... | 06/22/1982 |
| 4318362 | Floating concrete dock A floating concrete dock comprised of floating units such as headers and fingers with the fingers depending outwardly from headers and connected to one another by continuous hinges. Each floating unit includes a deck portion and a pair of stem portions de... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4314324 | Transformer power supply having an inductively loaded full wave rectifier in the primary In a transformer power supply, a full wave rectifier is series connected in circuit with the primary winding of the transformer such that the current flowing through the primary winding of the transformer flows in series through the input of the full wave... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4310808 | High power laser employing an unstable resonator The high power laser includes a high gain medium (>80%) such as a lightly doped Nd:YAG rod contained within an unstable optical resonator of the type wherein power flows outward from the optical axis of the resonator. The output beam is coupled out of the... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4307487 | Wax applicator for defeathering fowl In a wax applicator for defeathering fowl, a pot is provided for containing a waxy composition into which the fowl to be defeathered is immersed for coating of the feathers with molten waxy material. A squeegee, preferably in the form of a centrally apert... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4306725 | Thesaurus card game A card game comprising a pack of playing cards including fifty-two cards each having the same rectangular configuration and size and visually similar rear face. The front face of each card is divided into a first and second visually distinct zone, each of... | 12/22/1981 |
| 4306223 | Data handling 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... | 12/15/1981 |
| 4300606 | Wood splitting axe A wood splitting axe head for mounting on an axe handle in which the weight is distributed such that the plane through the center of gravity of the axe head (gravity plane) is offset with respect to the longitudinal plane through which the axe is swung an... | 11/17/1981 |
| 4295105 | Switched-capacitor modulator Novel apparatus and techniques for the modulation of a signal from one frequency band to another frequency band are disclosed. An integrator is changed between the inverting and non inverting modes, each mode occurring with each half cycle of a carrier si... | 10/13/1981 |
| 4293316 | Inlet system for a gas analyzer The detector region of a gas analyzer is interfaced to a source of gas under analysis, such as the atmosphere, by means of an adsorber type preconcentrator, which preferentially adsorbs the gaseous constituent of interest, such as relatively heavy hydroca... | 10/06/1981 |
| 4292722 | Renewable nut for a lead screw drive and method of making same In a lead screw drive, such as that used in a lightweight lathe or milling machine for driving the workpiece relative to the cutting tool, the core of a drive nut is made of a material having a relatively low melting temperature, such as babbitt metal or ... | 10/06/1981 |
| 4283178 | Electromechanical braille cell An electromechanical braille cell is disclosed wherein each cell includes six braille indicia formed by the free ends of a vertical stack of cantilever supported piezoelectric reeds. Applying an operating potential to a respective reed causes the reed to ... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4278755 | Halftone screen and method of using same An improved halftone dot screen for use in reproduction of continuous-tone graphic images is disclosed. The screen comprises a two-dimensional matrix of cells (dots) each cell having a common pattern of transmittance to radiation utilized in the reproduct... | 07/14/1981 |
| 4270332 | Windows and method of making the same Several embodiments of window frame assemblies comprising novel window framing members for supporting a glazing product are described. In one embodiment, a window frame assembly is described comprising a conventional framing member including a novel rotat... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4263673 | Receive buffer for converting synchronous-to-asynchronous data In a data transmission system, in which asynchronous-to-synchronous data conversion at the transmitter end of a data link at times removes stop bits from, and at other times adds stop bits, to a character, a receive buffer at the receive end of the data l... | 04/21/1981 |
| 4260293 | Floating dock structure and method for fabricating the same A floating dock having a steel framework to the underside of which are fastened buoyant flotation bodies and to the upper surface of which is fastened a rigid imperforate sheet such as plywood. The framework is constructed of a suitable number of C-shaped... | 04/07/1981 |
| 4255903 | Snap-together sealing gasket A bulb-type sealing gasket formed from linear sealing strips and curvelinear sealing corners connected to one another. The sealing strip is constructed from a planar strip of flexible resilient material having end portions which extends substantially perp... | 03/17/1981 |
| 4255718 | Transversely pumped dye laser having improved conversion efficiency In a transversely pumped dye laser, such as a laser oscillator or laser amplifier, the optical pumping radiation is directed into the dye laser gain medium with the angle of divergence of the Poynting vector of the pumping wave radiation being not less th... | 03/10/1981 |
| 4252103 | Frame structure for a solar heating panel In a solar heating panel, the panel includes a plate-like solar collector having a serpentine shaped fluid conduit soldered to the plate collector in heat exchange relation therewith. Laterally directed manifolds are provided at opposite ends of the colle... | 02/24/1981 |
| 4251772 | Probe head for an automatic semiconductive wafer prober In a probe head for an automatic semiconductive wafer prober, the probe head includes a probe body means for coupling the probe head to the probe holder surrounding a chuck which carries the wafer. The chuck is moveable in the plane of the wafer (horizont... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4249846 | Rotary vacuum seal for a wafer transport system In a rotary vacuum sealed wafer transport system for transporting semiconductive wafers between ambient atmosphere and subatmospheric pressure within a wafer processing station, the wafers, on a conveyor web pass through a slot in the vacuum chamber of th... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4235542 | Self stowing vehicle leveling hydraulic jack In a self stowing vehicle leveling hydraulic jack, a cylindrical ram housing is pivotably affixed to the vehicle to be leveled. A cylindrical hydraulically actuated ram is carried within the cylindrical ram housing in a telescoping manner. An electrical m... | 11/25/1980 |
| 4234113 | Manual ski carrier In a manual ski carrier for carrying skis in parallel bottom-to-bottom faced relation, a pair of clamping blocks are carried from a main body member which is laterally directed of the skis. The clamping blocks are preferably spring biased apart such that ... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4232276 | Laser apparatus In an optically pumped high power laser the optical pump includes a housing containing a pair of flash lamps and an elliptical reflector assembly for reflecting the optical pumping radiation into the laser gain medium, such as a YAG rod. Water coolant is ... | 11/04/1980 |
| 4225755 | Capacitive force transducer A capacitive force transducer, particularly suited for use as a microphone or as a phonograph needle pick-up cartridge, comprises a diaphragm electrode insulatively held to a lip portion of a recess in a second electrode, thereby forming a capacitive dete... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4223048 | Plasma enhanced chemical vapor processing of semiconductive wafers Semiconductive wafers are processed, i.e., etched or layers deposited thereon, by means of a plasma enhanced chemical vapor processing system. The processing system includes an evacuable horizontal tubular envelope disposed within a surrounding heater or ... | 09/16/1980 |
| 4221834 | Superconductive magnetic shield and method of making same A relatively thin superconductive magnetic shield, as of lead, is supported from a hollow support structure, as of aluminum or fiberglass by means of a multiplicity of spots of adhesive, as of epoxy, serving to bond the superconducting shield to the suppo... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4219397 | Magnetron sputter apparatus In a magnetron sputter gun for sputtering cathode material at subatmospheric pressure from a target onto a workpiece, the sputter cathode target comprises a pair of rings disposed in the inner magnetic gap between a pair of axially spaced annular pole pie... | 08/26/1980 |
| 4218676 | Method for chasing game employing a set of timed sound generators In a method for chasing game, a set of portable sound generators are set out in the field in accordance with a predetermined pattern for chasing the game in a predetermined direction when the sound generators are actuated. Each of the sound generators has... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4213060 | Tunable infrared source employing Raman mixing A tunable source of infrared radiation is obtained by irradiating an assemblage of Raman active gaseous atoms or molecules with a high intensity pumping beam of coherent radiation at a pump frequency ωp to stimulate the generation of Stokes wa... | 07/15/1980 |
| 4208239 | Dry wall taping machine having an improved applicator head A hand operated dry wall taping tool includes a tubular main body portion, to be held by the operator, with a tape applicator head portion at one end thereof. The tool is supplied with dry wall tape cement from a supply thereof under pressure. A supply ro... | 06/17/1980 |
| 4207370 | Method of producing contour mapped and pseudo-colored versions of black and white photographs A method of making multilevel equidensity contour mappings and pseudo-colored versions of a photograph. First a half-tone transparency of the photograph is made by the method described in copending patent application entitled "Method of Making Half-Tone S... | 06/10/1980 |
| 4200808 | Continuously tunable wideband coherent infrared source Output coherent infrared radiation is obtained in a continuously tunable band from 1.4 microns to 25 microns and longer wavelengths. The 1.06 micron output of a Nd:YAG laser, or a harmonic thereof, is difference mixed in a nonlinear crystal, as of LiIO | 04/29/1980 |
| 4200005 | Pedal having an improved foot-retaining strap means A pedal for a pedal driven apparatus, such as a bicycle, moped, or the like, includes a flexible, pliable, strap as of nylon webbing which passes twice over the pedal forming a double loop configuration for strapping the foot of the operator to the pedal.... | 04/29/1980 |
