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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 |
| 7658027 | Wristband with snap closure and patient ID label A wristband is assembled from a flexible preferably vinyl carrier and a preferably laminated ID label, the carrier having a panel portion and a strap portion with a snap closure located in a toe extension at the end of the carrier adjacent the panel. The strap has a... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7658026 | Wristband with snap closure and patent id label A wristband is assembled from a flexible preferably vinyl carrier and a preferably laminated ID label, the carrier having a panel portion and a strap portion with a snap closure located in a toe extension at the end of the carrier adjacent the panel. The strap has a... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7654024 | Separated wristband label assembly A business form particularly adapted for use during medical emergencies includes in a first embodiment a wristband/label assembly that is readily separable from a carrier, with the wristband including a single end for looping around a victim's appendage through a ci... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7604463 | Motor cooling and exhaust diluting blower housing with heat shield and noise muffler A blower housing may be used with a climate control furnace or with a water heater and provides cooling of the motor that rotates the blower fan and also provides dilution and cooling of exhaust gases drawn from the furnace or water heater. The housing is constructe... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7345456 | Power system stabilizer providing excitation limiter functions A stabilizer and synchronous electric power generator system using same that provides both power system damping and excitation limiter functionality. The stabilizer includes a processing unit and a memory storing routines executable by the processing unit. The routi... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7252118 | Motor coil winding and insertion method and apparatus According to one aspect, the present technique provides methods and apparatus for inserting coil windings into a stator. Advantageously, the windings may be wound in a vertical configuration to facilitate insertion of the windings into stator slots. Moreover, the ex... | 08/07/2007 |
| D547182 | Lotion pump head | 07/24/2007 |
| 7235394 | Functional DNA clone for hepatitis C virus (HCV) and uses thereof The present invention relates to the determination of an authentic HCV genome RNA sequences, to construction of infectious HCV DNA clones, and to use of the clones, or their derivatives, in therapeutic, vaccine, and diagnostic applications. The invention is also dir... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233898 | Method and apparatus for speaker verification using a tunable high-resolution spectral estimator A tunable high resolution spectral estimator is disclosed as a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding signals, signal analysis and synthesis, and for performing high resolution spectral estimation. The invention is comprised of an encoder coupled with either... | 06/19/2007 |
| D543106 | Lotion pump head | 05/22/2007 |
| 7201715 | Real time brachytherapy spatial registration and visualization system A method and system for monitoring loading of radiation into an insertion device for use in a radiation therapy treatment to determine whether the treatment will be in agreement with a radiation therapy plan. In a preferred embodiment, optical sensors and radiation ... | 04/10/2007 |
| D538694 | Gauge cluster | 03/20/2007 |
| 7187800 | Method and apparatus for image segmentation using Jensen-Shannon divergence and Jensen-Renyi divergence A method of approximating the boundary of an object in an image, the image being represented by a data set, the data set comprising a plurality of data elements, each data element having a data value corresponding to a feature of the image, the method comprising det... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7171255 | Virtual reality 3D visualization for surgical procedures A method and apparatus for three-dimensional imaging and treatment of a patient's body. The method and apparatus utilize a system for developing a therapy plan for treatment of an organ of the patient, a device for generating ultrasound image data from a treatment r... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7109170 | Region of factor IXa protease domain that interacts with factor VIIIa and methods therefor Novel polypeptides or derivatives comprising the factor VIIIa binding site on factor IXa are disclosed. The novel polypeptides or derivatives have anti-coagulation activity. Nucleic acids encoding those polypeptides are also disclosed. Methods for identifying an age... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7102643 | Method and apparatus for controlling the visual presentation of data According to one aspect of the invention, disclosed herein is a method of controlling a visual presentation of data to a viewer, the presentation comprising a plurality of display configuration states through which data content is presented to a viewer, the presenta... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7098398 | Adjustable spring grounding pin An adjustable spring grounding pin for grounding separate parts of an electrical device, for example end shields and a stator of an electric motor, automatically adjusts its circumferential dimension to provide a tight grounding fit between aligned holes of differen... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099159 | Motor control housing An appliance circuitry housing is designed so a circuit board can be attached directly to the housing interior with circuit board electric terminals being accessible from the housing exterior. An integral door on the housing exterior can be pivoted to a closed posit... | 08/29/2006 |
| D526411 | Ophthalmic surgery light source adaptor | 08/08/2006 |
| 7083794 | Recombinant vaccines comprising immunogenic attenuated bacteria having RpoS positive phenotype Attenuated immunogenic bacteria having an RpoS+ phenotype, in particular, Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi having an RpoS+ phenotype and methods therefor are disclosed. The Salmonella have in addition to an RpoS+ | 08/01/2006 |
| 7080745 | Magnetic coupling and uncoupling system for model railroad rolling stock A model railroad car magnetic coupling and uncoupling system employs pairs of cooperating magnetic couplers that have unique and simplified constructions, and an uncoupler mechanism that is mounted beneath a section of model railroad track and operates automatically... | 07/25/2006 |
| D523663 | Arc desk | 06/27/2006 |
| 7066774 | Electrical connector and sleeve apparatus and method of assembly An electrical connector includes a terminal attached to a length of wiring that extends from the stator windings of an electrical device, and a tubular insulating sleeve that extends along the length of wiring. The sleeve is secured stationary relative to both the w... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7047682 | Wristband/label assembly business form and method A business form particularly adapted for use during medical emergencies includes in a first embodiment a wristband/label assembly that is readily separable from a carrier, with the wristband including a single end for looping around a victim's appendage through a ci... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7040457 | Motor speed controller system for freight elevator doors A linear displacement potentiometer is mechanically tied to an elevator door/gate and provides a voltage corresponding to the door/gate position to a programmable controller. The programmable controller uses a software program to determine when the door/gate is full... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7040453 | Lubricant retention assembly A lubricant retention assembly is employed with an electric motor to prevent the loss of lubricant from a self contained lubricant reservoir of the motor. The lubricant retention assembly includes a thrust collar mounted on the motor shaft and a bearing cap surround... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7036689 | Child-resistant trigger sprayer A child-resistant trigger sprayer includes a sprayer body having a barrel with an internal passage, and at least one first lug formed integrally with the barrel and extending radially outwardly from the barrel. A nozzle is rotatable on the barrel between at least on... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7034345 | High-power, integrated AC switch module with distributed array of hybrid devices A novel architecture of high-power four-quadrant hybrid power modules based on high-current trench gate IGBTs and arrays of low-current wide-bandgap diodes is conceived. The distributed physical layout of high power density wide-bandgap devices improves the cooling ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7032783 | Pump dispenser for liquid products A pump dispenser for liquid products includes a pump chamber having a cylinder, and a piston slidable within the cylinder with an outlet passage extending through the piston. A spring within the chamber urges the piston to an extended position. An inlet opening is d... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031160 | Magnetically enhanced convection heat sink A magnetically enhanced convection heat sink comprises a heat sink member for dissipating heat from a heat source. A magnetic source creates a magnetic field concentrated at a first location, the intensity of the magnetic field decreasing from the first location to ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7017833 | Trigger sprayer spray, off, stream, off indexing nozzle assembly An indexing nozzle assembly for a trigger sprayer has a manually rotatable cap mounted for rotation on a liquid spinner of the nozzle assembly. Rotation of a cap changes the nozzle assembly between an off condition, a spray condition, a second off condition, and a s... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7017293 | Wristband/cinch with label assembly business form and method A business form particularly adapted for use in a medical or hospital environment includes in a first embodiment a wristband assembly that is readily separable from a carrier comprised of a layer of face stock and a laminate, with the wristband including a printable... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7017294 | Wristband/cinch with inboard label assembly business form and method A business form particularly adapted for generalized use, although it may be used in a medical or hospital environment includes in a first embodiment a wristband that is provided with a laminate backing including a tab portion at the opposite end of a free end, with... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6981313 | Apparatus for connecting electric terminal to connector blocks An electric terminal connector block is provided with oblong tool openings that communicate with interior channels of the connector block and with openings in the motor wiring electric terminals positioned in each channel of the connector block. The oblong shapes of... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6980672 | Lock and switch using pressure-type fingerprint sensor A lock has a pressure-based fingerprint sensor, the sensor detects the fingerprint pattern of the finger that presses the sensor, a matching circuit prepares a fingerprint code based on the detected fingerprint pattern, this code is compared with registered fingerpr... | 12/27/2005 |
| D510997 | Scroll register cover | 10/25/2005 |
| 6923346 | Foaming liquid dispenser A manually operated liquid foaming dispenser is attached to the top of a container of liquid and is manually vertically reciprocated to dispense the liquid from the container as a foam. The dispenser includes a liquid pump chamber and an air pump chamber that respec... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6903640 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USING THE STATOR COILS OF AN ELECTRIC MOTOR TO MAGNETIZE PERMANENT MAGNETS OF THE MOTOR ROTOR WHEN THE SPAN OF EACH STATOR COIL IS SMALLER THAN THE WIDTH OF EACH PERMANENT MAGNET POLE An apparatus and its method of use enable magnetizing the permanent magnets of an electric motor rotor using the winding coils of the motor stator when the circumferential width of each rotor permanent magnet pole is larger than the circumferential width of each sta... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6889566 | Foil strain gauge This invention provides a foil strain gauge having a plurality of sensing portions and a plurality of turnup tabs that are connected to each other through respective turnup portions, each turnup portion having an inner side defining a curve with a curvature that cha... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6886718 | Ergonomic trigger for a trigger sprayer A liquid dispensing, manually operated trigger sprayer has a trigger with an ergonomic finger engagement surface. The trigger finger engagement surface extends longitudinally across the front of the trigger and has a protrusion at the top of the surface. The protrus... | 05/03/2005 |
