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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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| 7770680 | Hood mount assembly A vehicle includes a chassis, a cab mounted to the chassis, and a hood positioned adjacent the cab. A hood mount assembly is disposed between the cab and the hood. The hood mount assembly allows the cab to slide in first and second directions relative to the hood an... | 08/10/2010 |
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| 7530030 | Facilitating target acquisition by expanding targets A system and method for facilitating target acquisition is presented. Upon detecting a triggering event to display expanded targets, i.e., icons representing applications, services, folders, and the like, the computer system generates expanded targets and displays t... | 05/05/2009 |
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| 7462446 | Magnetic nanoparticle compositions and methods A nanoparticle having a core comprising a magnetic material and surface to which are covalently coupled a plurality of silane moieties, wherein each silane moiety comprises a polyalkylene oxide moiety. The nanoparticle can further include a targeting agent, a target... | 12/09/2008 |
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| 7395506 | Spy-resistant keyboard A method, system and article of manufacture for providing a spy-resistant keyboard. The spy-resistant keyboard provides a user with additional protection against unauthorized observers while the user is interfacing with a system implementing the spy-resistant keyboa... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7386947 | Snowboard boot with liner harness A boot, such as a snowboard boot, having an outer shell including a flexible upper and a harness assembly disposed in the outer shell. The harness assembly wraps about a user's ankle, includes a plurality of cord keepers. A cord—for example, a lace or a stainless ... | 06/17/2008 |
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| 7239287 | Wireless communication device having conductive elements antenna An antenna coupled to a wireless communication device that is comprised of a series of conductive elements that form a conductor when placed under a force. The conductor is coupled to a wireless communication device to provide an antenna so that the wireless communi... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7196601 | Temperature correction of wigglers and undulators An undulator includes a periodic arrangement of magnets to produce a periodic spatial magnetic field distribution in a magnetic gap defined by the magnets. The undulator further includes a temperature-compensating material selectively arranged to compensate for a te... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7080494 | Method for making a large square bale out of a plurality of small bales A method for making a large square bale out of a plurality of small bales, utilizing a square baler. Small bales are fed into a processing chamber resting in side by side relation on a pivoting floor. The floor is pivoted from a horizontal position to a vertical pos... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7043457 | System and method for managing and evaluating network commodities purchasing A method and system for managing and evaluating commodities purchasing over a network of distributed computing devices. In one embodiment, the method allows a plurality of buyers to generate one request for quote and, response to the request for quote, receive a quo... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042625 | Light modulator having digital micro blaze diffraction grating Disclosed is a light modulator having a digital micro blaze diffraction grating. In the light modulator, a fine protrusion is formed on an edge of a lower surface of a diffraction member so that a reflective surface inclines due to the fine protrusion when the diffr... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6667445 | Hydraulic weighing machine A hydraulic weighing machine includes a base, a weighing platform, an expandable bag, an upright stand, and a vertically extending weight scale. The expandable bag is disposed on a load bearing side of the base, and supports the weighing platform thereon.... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6613226 | Laminated modular water filter A laminated modular water filter includes a top plate, a bottom plate and a plurality of superposed intermediate plates disposed between the top and bottom plates. Each adjacent pair of the top, intermediate and bottom plates are interconnected removably,... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6613522 | Method of reconstituting a DNA library using RecA protein The present invention provides a method of constructing a DNA library having increased proportion of a desired nucleic acid(s) therein by removing a nucleic acid(s) other than the desired nucleic acid(s) from a parent library.... | 09/02/2003 |
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| 6573817 | Variable-strength multipole beamline magnet A multipole beamline magnet (10) includes a plurality of stationary poles (12) formed of ferromagnetic material and one or more permanent magnets (14) that are disposed between the plurality of stationary poles. Each of the permanent magnets supplies magn... | 06/03/2003 |
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| 6442437 | Method for step motor control When the driver of a step motor is executed in a personal computer, its speed will be varied in response to the speed of the CPU. To provide a constant and stable speed of the step motor, the present invention automatically detects the system model and th... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6437448 | Semiconductor device adapted for mounting on a substrate A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the steps of providing a semiconductor chip having a pad-mounting surface with a bonding pad, forming a first bump on the bonding pad, forming a photoresist layer on the pad-mounting surface, form... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6432786 | Method of forming a gate oxide layer with an improved ability to resist the process damage A method of forming a gate oxide layer with improved ability to resist process damage increases the reliability and yield of a transistor device. First, a nitrogen-containing gate oxide layer is formed on an element area of a silicon substrate. Then, a po... | 08/13/2002 |
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| 6409221 | Quick locking pipe joint for round, plain, or profiled pipe A joint for joining pipes, wherein the joint employs offset, overlapping locking tabs on a male and a female joint member, which locking tabs are spaced to permit the locking tabs on the female joint member to slide past the locking tabs on the male joint... | 06/25/2002 |
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| 6392990 | Method for implementing interface redundancy in a computer network A method and system for recovering transparently from a network interface failure. The method is to be run in a computing device on a network with multiple peer computing devices, having redundant network interfaces connected with redundant cables. The me... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6313134 | Uses of thaliporphine or its derivatives in treatment of cardiac diseases and preparation of same The present invention discloses thaliporphine and its derivatives for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of cardiac diseases, including cardiac arrhythmia, myocardial ischemia or myocardial infarction, and sudden death caused by cardiac arrhythmia or acute ... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6263466 | System and method of separately coding the header and payload of a data packet for use in satellite data communication A data communication system for a constellation of satellites (13a, 13b, . . . ) that employ Earth-fixed cellular beam management technology is disclosed. The data to be communicated is formed into data packets by a transmitting ground terminal (60). Each... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6254585 | Surgical irrigation solution and method for inhibition of pain and inflammation A method and solution for perioperatively inhibiting a variety of pain and inflammation processes at wounds from general surgical procedures including oral/dental procedures. The solution preferably includes multiple pain and inflammation inhibitory at di... | 07/03/2001 |
