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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8104606 | Tire conveyor assembly and components thereof A conveyor assembly for conveying a product to one or more product operations includes a conveyor belt rotating about a drive roller assembly and an end return roller assembly. A pair of spaced apart side frames supports the conveyor belt and between which the conve... | 01/31/2012 |
| D650022 | Weight lifting power machine with slave rack | 12/06/2011 |
| 8043631 | Tumor targeting drug-loaded particles A composition for delivering a tumor therapeutic agent to a patient includes a fast-release formulation of a tumor apoptosis inducing agent, a slow-release formulation of a tumor therapeutic agent, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. An apoptosis-inducing age... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8002109 | Drive roller assembly for tire conveyor assembly A drive roller assembly for engaging a conveyor belt assembly for movement of a conveyor belt includes a sandwich assembly of components including a pair of outer annular scalloped wheels for engaging a conveyor belt for its movement, a rectilinear drive shaft runni... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7975829 | Tire conveyor assembly and components thereof An improved conveyor assembly includes a conveyor belt for conveying a product to one or more product operations is disclosed. Such conveyor assembly includes a pair of spaced apart side frames that support the conveyor belt and between which the conveyor belt rotat... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7938448 | Mobile vehicle detailing system The mobile vehicle detailing system is a system for detailing a motor vehicle adapted for mounting the rear of a truck or van. The mobile vehicle detailing system has a water storage tank that has outlets for filling buckets and water containers and provides a sourc... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7926277 | Condensers and their monitoring Disclosed is a method for operating a condenser of the type having a housing inside of which is disposed a bundle of water tubes, a steam inlet for steam to flow inside the housing for contacting the tube bundle for cooling, and having a stagnant air zone during ope... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7920926 | Method and apparatus for carrying out the controlled heating of tissue in the region of dermis Implant apparatus and method for effecting a controlled heating of tissue within the region of dermis of skin. The heater implants are configured with a thermally insulative generally flat support functioning as a thermal barrier. One surface of this thermal barrier... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7912660 | System and method for locating and analyzing arcing phenomena System and method for detecting partial discharge arcing phenomena in a power network distribution system which employs a mobile receiving assemblage including a wideband antenna, a computer controllable wideband radio receiver deriving an amplitude detected output ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7888536 | Selective and specific preparation of discrete PEG compounds Aspects of the present invention are directed to novel methods for making discrete polyethylene compounds selectively and specifically to a predetermined number of ethylene oxide units. Methods which can be used to build up larger dPEG compounds (a) containing a wid... | 02/15/2011 |
| D631901 | Portable apparatus for determining leaks in air ducts | 02/01/2011 |
| RE42036 | Combine with powered and steerable grain trailer A powered towing vehicle having steering wheels and a wheeled trailer is connected to the vehicle for its towing. The wheels of the trailer are connected to a source of power for generating forward and rearward movement of the trailer. These wheels also are connecte... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7828797 | Electrosurgical accessing of tissue with controlled collateral thermal phenomena Method, system and apparatus for carrying out electrosurgical procedures interstitially. Elevated temperature fluid such as steam generated by an instrument born electrosurgical cutting arc is evacuated through an intake port located adjacent the cutting electrode. ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7818925 | Stay-in-place concrete footing forms A stay-in-place concrete footings form is used for forming a concrete footing between a spaced-apart pair of the stay-in-place concrete footings forms. Each concrete footing form is elongate and has a cavity inside the form. Each form has a pair of elongate sides wh... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7775296 | Ground stabilized transportable drop hammer An improved portable, ground stabilized, drop hammer assembly for impacting a ground surface and adapted to be removably coupled to a driven host transport apparatus is composed of a drop weight, a frame including a sidewall, bottom plate and a host transport appara... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7765860 | Roadway grip tester and method A method for measuring road surface friction of a road surface uses a vehicle that moves across the road surface wherein (1) an auxiliary independent wheel assembly is towed behind the vehicle and is in contact with the road surface, an auxiliary wheel of the wheel ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7757840 | Conveyor wear bar assembly An improved conveyor assembly includes a conveyor belt for conveying a product to one or more product operations is disclosed. Such conveyor assembly includes a pair of spaced apart side frames that support the conveyor belt and between which the conveyor belt rotat... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7743061 | Document search method with interactively employed distance graphics display Method for carrying out the text content search of a document database utilizing multi-node nets. The nodes of these nets are associated with interactions and are loaded with initially selected criteria, whereupon a potential or distance function calculation is carr... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7738946 | System, method and apparatus for the detection of patient-borne fluorescing materials System, method and apparatus wherein a probe employing non-imagining optics is utilized in conjunction with a fluorescing (e.g., nanocrystal) tracer at the body of a patient. Excitation components within the probe working end are utilized to excite the nanocrystals ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7731378 | Lighted hair accessory A lighted hair accessory includes a power source; one or more light emitting devices in electrical connection with the power source; and a switch interposed between the power source and the light emitting devices. A hair accessory configured to secure a bunch of hai... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7729778 | System, method and apparatus for evaluating tissue temperature Method, system and apparatus for monitoring target tissue temperatures wherein temperature sensors are configured as passive resonant circuits each with a unique resonating signature at monitoring temperatures extending below a select temperature setpoint. The reson... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7704304 | Process and apparatus for generating and delivering an enriched gas fraction An improved sieve bed design to manage breakthrough and the mass transfer zone by way of volumetric division. An empty space in the product end is separated from adsorbent-filled sieve space in the feed end by a mid-diffuser plate. The ratio of the empty product end... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7695505 | System, method and apparatus for evaluating tissue temperature Method, system and apparatus for monitoring target tissue temperatures wherein temperature sensors are configured as passive resonant circuits each with a unique resonating signature at monitoring temperatures extending below a select temperature setpoint. The reson... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7689269 | System, method and apparatus for the detection of patient-borne fluorescing nanocrystals System, method and apparatus wherein a probe employing non-imagining optics is utilized in conjunction with a fluorescing nanocrystal tracer at the body of a patient. Excitation components within the probe working end are utilized to excite the nanocrystals to fluor... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7684871 | System, method and apparatus for evaluating tissue temperature Method, system and apparatus for monitoring target tissue temperatures wherein temperature sensors are configured as passive resonant circuits each with a unique resonating signature at monitoring temperatures extending below a select temperature setpoint. The reson... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7681735 | Self-locking pallet assembly A paperboard container is formed from a base unit, a flat floor unit, a self-supporting side unit, and a lid. The side unit is foldable inside the base unit for shipping and storage. The side unit can be unfolded and the parts readily assembled to form a paperboard ... | 03/23/2010 |
| D610865 | Cake baking appliance | 03/02/2010 |
| 7665280 | Automobile part shipping system and method Plies of paperboard are laminated to form a paperboard laminate having a front and a back. An automobile part is placed on the front of the paperboard laminate leaving exposed the front of the paperboard laminate. The automobile part and the exposed paperboard lamin... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7662361 | Methods and compositions for modulating drug activity through telomere damage The invention provides methods and compositions for modulating the activity of therapeutic agents for the treatment of a cancer by administering one or more agents that (either alone or in combination) induces telomere damage and inhibits telomerase activity in the ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7656681 | Very light enclosure for electronic systems A very light enclosure for electronic systems incorporates a rigid core enclosure structure formed with forward and rearward rigid, zig-zag configured, generally open mesh structure stabilization frames extending between oppositely disposed connection ends. The conn... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7629030 | Electrospraying/electrospinning array utilizing a replacement array of individual tip flow restriction An electrohydrodynamic spraying or spinning deposition system, which includes a common source of pressurized liquid within a manifold, and an array of 2 or more spraying tips, each tip being fed from the common source of pressurized liquid to create a liquid flow pa... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7625860 | Methods and compositions for modulating cell proliferation and cell death Methods and compositions for modulating the FGF effect on the sensitivity of malignant and normal cells to anticancer agents are provided. In particular, methods and compositions for inhibiting FGF-induced resistance to a broad spectrum of anticancer agents in solid... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7613523 | Aesthetic thermal sculpting of skin Method, system and apparatus for carrying out a controlled heating of dermis to achieve a percentage of linear collagen shrinkage. Implants are employed which preferably are configured as a thermal barrier defining support of an outwardly disposed support surface wh... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7598649 | Vertical stator double gas D.C. PM motors A vertical stator d.c. PM motor employs outer and inner working air gaps wherein the length of the inner working gap at any stator pole is greater than the corresponding length at the outer working gap. A mutual cancellation of detent torque between the outer and in... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7594956 | Temperature swing adsorption system A method for removing one or more strongly adsorbed components (SAC) from a process gas stream having SAC and other gaseous components adjusts the temperature of the SAC-laden process gas stream to be between about 80° and about 500° C. The temperature-adjusted pr... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7577535 | System and method for locating and analyzing arcing phenomena System and method for detecting partial discharge arcing phenomena in a power network distribution system which employs a mobile receiving assemblage including a wideband antenna, a computer controllable wideband radio receiver deriving an amplitude detected output ... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7569053 | Apparatus for retrieving a tissue volume with improved positioning precursor assembly Apparatus for retrieving a tissue volume of a variety utilizing an electrosurgically excited cable implemented capture component which performs in combination with an improved precursor assembly. Where that assembly is electrosurgically excited, then it is located a... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7568711 | Eccentric-based caster adjustment apparatus Apparatus for adjusting the caster of the steering wheels of an all terrain vehicle. An eccentric threaded stud support is adjustively rotatable to position the eccentrically retained stud at a plurality of caster angle defining orientations extending from zero cast... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7567843 | System method and apparatus for localized heating of tissue System method and apparatus for accurately carrying out the in situ heating of a targeted tissue. Small implants are employed with the targeted tissue which exhibit an abrupt change of magnetic permeability at an elected Curie temperature. The permeability state of ... | 07/28/2009 |
