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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 |
| 8007337 | Universal flying hawk A multi-use recreational product fully assembled constitutes a toy that can be towed on water and on snow and in the air, and when airborne, the rider can detach the tow rope and use the product as a glider. The toy disassembled, separates a wing section from a fuse... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7686794 | Feminine hygiene short A feminine hygiene device offers full protection from heavy menstrual flow by securely covering the inner thigh, buttocks and pelvic area against menstrual leakage. The hygiene device is in the nature of a pair of shorts having vertical elastic seams on each side to... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7668885 | System for timely delivery of personalized aggregations of, including currently-generated, knowledge A multidimensional method and apparatus for adaptively characterizing and aggregating data through a secure automated means of database modification, a prioritization and weighting system, a third party enhanced metadata entry and classification mechanism, adaptive ... | 02/23/2010 |
| D592408 | Picture mount | 05/19/2009 |
| 7293751 | Adjustable support for lap work An adjustable support for a portable computer or the like having a main or center board, side boards, and cylindrical stackers interconnecting them. The device is designed to hold a portable computer on the main board and to dispose it weightlessly in the lap area o... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7142779 | Infrared sauna A portable compact sauna wherein a user's body is warmed to sweating primarily by direct absorption of infrared radiation. Broad infrared radiation emitters or sources are placed around the inside of a narrow cabinet so as to be in close proximity to various parts o... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7120353 | Infrared sauna A portable compact sauna wherein a user's body is warmed to sweating primarily by direct absorption of infrared radiation. Broad infrared radiation emitters or sources are placed around the inside of a narrow cabinet so as to be in close proximity to various parts o... | 10/10/2006 |
| 6952474 | Phone privacy and unobtrusiveness via voice cancellation A method and apparatus for transmitting a clear voice signal while effectuating speech privacy and unobtrusiveness through adaptive signal processing; includes a voice input microphone, an electrical line for transmitting representations of the received voice signal... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6704951 | Crib Drop side of a child-proof crib has a top portion which can be lowered with respect to its bottom portion. Its top railing is rendered vertically translatable by employing telescoping stiles between it and the bottom railing. Double-action latch mechanisms in the up... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6701767 | Trailered brake workstation A trailered brake workstation mounts on the horizontal frame of a two-wheeled trailer, a pair of longitudinally-spaced transverse horizontal guide bars at an elevated position above the frame. The guide bars mount slides which are secured to the bottom of... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6526000 | Pattern display A display arrangement for a digital wrist watch LED face or a computer cathode ray tube face provides for ornamental and coded displays. In the arrangement, the digital information is repeated in juxtaposed rows repeating the same digits in columnar fashi... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6456206 | Inclement weather safety system The present invention relates to a inclement weather safety system where the purpose of the system is to allow other drivers in your vicinity to see your vehicle at a further distance away, when there is very severe weather conditions by strobing the head... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6431415 | Popcorn funnel A popped-popcorn package consists of a beaded container for holding popped-popcorn and a funnel having a closable opening in the reduced end for dispensing several kernals of normal-sized popped popcorn at a shake of the package and an enlarged end for se... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6206941 | Apparatus and process for carbonization and activation of carbonaceous materials An apparatus for converting carbonaceous raw materials into a carbonized product and activating the product, includes a device for heating the carbonaceous raw materials to form a carbonized product, and equipment for activating the carbonized product and... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6109194 | Embroidery machine fabric holder An embroidery machine is provided with an attachment for fitting on the bottom of its movable hoop to provide a secure mounting surface for a sheet of "stickum" paper extending across the hoop and providing on its upper "stickum" surface a mounting and se... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6032288 | Combination robe and gown A garment combines a hospital gown with a robe. The gown extends across the front of and around and partially behind a patient. It is attached on one side end to the inside of a side of the robe and on that side's top to the shoulder of the robe. The othe... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6033676 | Treatment of scalp baldness with 8-hydroxyquinoline sulfate A process and product restoring hair to bald-headed men involves massaging the scalp with a commercially available ointmenmt known as BAG BALM.... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5921834 | Bumper ball A water toy includes a bumper ball having open ends and inner and outer walls separatable by an air space. Users enter and exit the ball through either or both of the open ends. The ball can be rotated by the occupant moving in one direction in it, as by ... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5910931 | Automobile inspection reminder An automobile annual inspection reminder device sets off flashingly a bright light emitting diode (LED) approximately a month before the due date of the next automobile inspection. The device employs conventional battery operated digital watch circuitry t... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5871076 | Coin handling apparatus protection device A coin handling protection device is disclosed which prevents thieves from stuffing compressible material through the coin insert slot and into the coin return chute of coin-operated machines. The device prevents stuffing the coin return chute by incorpor... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5826853 | Post protector Two embodiments are shown for protecting the pedestal of a public payphone against vandalism. Both employ a stainless steel plate. Both also employ techniques for protecting the stainless steel plate against vandalism. In one, a U-shaped structure and bar... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5826540 | Squirrel resistant bird feeder A squirrel-resistant bird feeder includes an inner seed-containing cylinder having a central upwardly-extending rod for mounting on a support and side openings for providing bird access to the seed. A hollow cylinder having a top surface with a central op... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5818917 | Secure guard for coin-return-bucket window of payphone guard wrap An anti-vandalizing device prevents removal of the coin-return bucket through the coin-retrieval window of the lower-housing cover of a coin-operated telephone while still accommodating coin vault security involving use of one key by the coin collector an... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5787158 | Smart bucket Apparatuses and methods immediately alert a telephone company or other owner/host or operator of a payphone that a vandalizing stuffing has occurred, thereby enabling it or him or her promptly to dispatch a maintenance person to the particular payphone or... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5779215 | Christmas tree stand A Christmas tree stand vertically mounts a cylindrical tube from the bottom of a water container and so that it extends from the top thereof. An inflatable cylindrical bladder is mounted lengthwise to the inside of the tube. The stand is mounted on the tr... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5740636 | Weather block and vent The thermal efficiency of a building is improved by installing a weather block and vent member across the space between the ends of joists resting on a plate having between them an insulation blanket having a vapor barrier adjacent a ceiling on the bottom... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5727054 | Anti-stuffing coin return assembly An anti-stuffing device involves removing the floor at the end of the coin return chute to create a floor opening, placing a wall over the end of the chute to stop coins coming down the chute, pivotally mounting at the bottom end of the wall a compound le... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5696588 | Automatic plate scanner A lithographic plate scanner provides more accurate representations of the color intensity of the various image areas of a plate having a fixed image by using only a single photocell to read the solid color bar, the white color bar and the successive imag... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5685095 | Ski lift chair map The safety guard of a ski lift chair is provided with a rotatable cylinder which bears a ski trail map on its periphery. The cylinder, formed of foam, is slit radially on one side from a central hole rotatably mounting it on the cross-bar of the safety gu... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5628002 | Binary tree flag bit arrangement and partitioning method and apparatus Arrangement of fields in binary tree nodes provides a minimal storage encoding storing fixed and variable length keys in factored form in a multilevel tree. A locating method, and apparatus embodying that method, directed by an argument key, which may or ... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5553418 | Decreased-tilt flower pot drain A drainage system for a closed-bottom tiltable flower pot employs a reservoir on the bottom of one side of the pot. A straight drain tube extends from the upper inner edge of the reservoir to the upper edge of the other or tilt-down side of the pot. An op... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5526412 | Dial assembly terminalgard A telephone is secured against vandalism involving inserting a bare electrically conductive wire through the slot in the MEDECO lock securing the upper housing to the main housing. The free end of the inserted wire is made to contact either the "12" or th... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5524143 | Anti-stuffing coin realigner A mechanism prevents explosion damage to coin pay telephones by providing an almost horizontal offset in the coin path so that a wad of paper cannot be moved by the weight of subsequently inserted coins. For existing phones, a retrofit provides a horizont... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5515658 | Jamb stud A new interior wall construction relies on a new metal stud. The new stud is a U-shaped channel having parallel sides and a generally flat bight. The bight is recessed interiorly of its edges and mounts a wood block. The block is secured by diagonally ins... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5511672 | Sorting device and method A novel mail carrier sorting case arrangement facilitates the sorting of mail according to current conditions. Compartments formed in a case by vertical dividers are provided for each delivery address. Flags reflecting special current delivery situations ... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5509057 | Telephone body guard armor A telephone is secured against vandalism by a double layer face plate or assemblage of tough materials. The assemblage consists of an outer plate covering most of the front of a telephone upper housing or casing, and a second layer covering the housing ca... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5473678 | Coin return mechanism protecter A coin-operated pay telephone is made secure from the removal of the coin return mechanism by a vandalizing bar and the subsequent collection of returned coins by vandals. A security bar is inserted behind the coin chute and down through an opening in an ... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5437758 | Green sheet manufacturing methods and apparatuses A "green" sheet manufacturing method and apparatus contemplates perforating the "green" sheet with through-holes as it is calendared, rolled or extruded by rollers. To this end, the rollers are each machined with punches of a length one-half the thickness... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5410960 | Ink vibrator Stiff ink in a ink fountain of a high-speed printing press or the like is maintained at the viscosity necessary to wet a printing roller by vibrating a rod placed in the ink in the fountain. The rod is mounted on arms pinned to trunnions, one of which tru... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5408772 | Sound plate A rectangular vehicle license plate frame includes side columns which mount printed circuit boards internally. The printed circuit boards mount yellow dot transformers and an integrated chip and light a number of light emitting diodes mounted on the exter... | 04/25/1995 |
