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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 |
| 4426561 | Puffer-type compressed-gas circuit-interrupter An improved puffer-type compressed-gas circuit interrupter includes a stationary tubular contact and a movable contact structure operably engageable with the stationary contact when the circuit interrupter is closed. A hollow nozzle directs a blast of com... | 01/17/1984 |
| 4412115 | Circuit interrupter A puffer type circuit interrupter in which fingershaped arcing contacts are provided with a large cooling effect by gas which is provided to blow out the arc at the time of an interruption operation. One of a pair of arcing contacts, which are connected t... | 10/25/1983 |
| 4378477 | Gas-blast switch A gas-blast switch provided with two coaxially arranged contact elements which can be brought into and out of engagement with one another by carrying out an axial movement. The first contact element which is connected with a drive is arranged in a fixed r... | 03/29/1983 |
| 4342890 | Gas-blast switch A gas-blast switch containing a stationary and a movable contact element. A blast nozzle associated with one of the contact elements possesses a blast channel, which during the course of the cut-off stroke, is freed from the other contact element. Additio... | 08/03/1982 |
| 4342891 | Circuit breaker with means for producing a flow of arc-extinguishing gas A puffer type circuit breaker is provided with a pump means consisting of a piston and a cylinder for producing a blast of arc-extinguishing gas. The piston is joined to one contact of the circuit breaker and the cylinder to the other contact. Both contac... | 08/03/1982 |
| 4329553 | Gas-blast switch A gas-blast switch having a pump cylinder conjointly movable with a movable contact element, the pump cylinder enclosing a pump chamber containing extinguishing gas and feeding a blast nozzle. Within the pump cylinder there is movably arranged a pump pist... | 05/11/1982 |
| 4327263 | Switching device A gas-insulated switch has separable contacts disposed within a chamber-forming cylinder. The arc drawn between the contacts on opening provides pressurizing of the arc-extinguishing fluid in the chamber, while additional pressurization is provided by an ... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4319105 | High voltage air disconnect switch incorporating a puffer type load break switch An air disconnect switch incorporates a unique arrangement of an ice breaking self-polishing current transfer horn arrangement which transfers the current to a puffer-type interrupter to effect circuit interruption prior to the disconnect switch being ful... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4276456 | Double-flow puffer-type compressed-gas circuit-interrupter An improved puffer-type, compressed-gas circuit-interrupter is provided having an improved double-flow operation, and improved cooling means for cooling the compressed gas prior to its ejection through the insulating movable nozzle and into the establishe... | 06/30/1981 |
| 4273978 | Liquid interrupter module The invention provides a current interrupter employing a liquified dielectric medium such as sulfur hexafluoride to effect rapid arc extinction. A pump cylinder forces the dielectric liquid into the vicinity of a fixed contact. The pump cylinder is refill... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4271341 | Circuit breaker operating mechanism A circuit interrupter characterized by a pair of separable contacts, operating means for opening and closing the contacts and comprising a piston for opening the contacts, the piston being operative at a range of 3,000 to 10,000 psi, generating means comp... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4258239 | Electric circuit breaker An improved electric circuit breaker of the type comprising: a first hollow stationary contact element; a second hollow movable contact element, a third movable tubular contact element for connecting the first and second contact elements in the on conditi... | 03/24/1981 |
| 4251701 | Circuit interrupter A circuit interrupter characterized by a pair of separable contacts with operating means for opening and closing the contacts and comprising a cylinder and piston mechanism which cylinder has opening means at each end of the cylinder chamber. Rotatable me... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4246459 | Gas circuit breaker In a gas circuit breaker of the type in which compressed gas is blasted about an arc generated by the separation of at least a pair of relatively movable contacts, there are provided an arc extinguishing chamber, a stationary contact mounted on the inside... | 01/20/1981 |
| 4211904 | Gas-blast circuit breaker A gas-blast circuit breaker having cooperating stationary and movable power contacts, a movably arranged cylinder, a stationary piston disposed in the cylinder and slidable with respect thereto, a compression chamber defined by an end face of the piston a... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4209679 | Electrical switch An electrical switch in which during a switchoff operation the switchoff current is commuted from a continuous current path through the switch to an extinction current path which includes a pair of separable contact members one of which is located in a re... | 06/24/1980 |
| 4182942 | Puffer-type gas-blast circuit breaker A puffer type gas-blast circuit breaker includes at least one interrupting unit mounted in a vessel filled with an arc-extinguishing gas of a unitary pressure. The interrupting unit comprises: a fixed contact; a movable contact movable toward and away fro... | 01/08/1980 |
| 4161636 | Arc extinguishing arrangement for gas blast type circuit breaker An electrical circuit breaker of the gas blast type comprises a pair of contact members disposed within an arc quenching zone of a chambered part at which separation of the contact members takes place and an arc is established therebetween. An annular bla... | 07/17/1979 |
| 4160888 | Puffer-type gas-blast circuit breaker A puffer type gas-blast circuit breaker includes at least one interrupting unit mounted in a vessel filled with an arc-extinguishing gas of a unitary pressure. The interrupting unit comprises: a fixed contact; a movable contact movable toward and away fro... | 07/10/1979 |
| 4139751 | Puffer-type compressed-gas circuit interrupter An improved puffer-type gas-blast circuit-interrupter is provided having a movable operating cylinder assembly movable over a relatively-fixed piston structure. A high compression ratio is obtained during the opening operation by minimizing the "dead" vol... | 02/13/1979 |
| 4121075 | Double-break puffer-type compressed-gas circuit-breaker A double-break puffer-type compressed-gas circuit-interrupter is provided having a common piston-and-cylinder arrangement for simultaneously forcing a blast of compressed gas through suitably-disposed jet apertures into a pair of serially-established arcs... | 10/17/1978 |
| 4114004 | Gas-blast electric cut-out device A gas-blast circuit-breaker comprises arcing contacts provided with nozzles of the same diameter, operating means ensuring an original movement of a mobile one of the arcing contacts in the opposite direction to that of the mobile main contact at the open... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4105879 | Magnetic puffer type gas circuit breaker In a magnetic puffer type gas circuit breaker including an electromagnetic coil through which a current to be interrupted flows during the breaking operation, and an electromagnetic repulsive member which produces an electromagnetic repulsive force in coo... | 08/08/1978 |
