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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 |
| 7603830 | Apparatus for automatic belt pressure adjustment for coupon separation A coupon insertion apparatus configured for sequentially inserting coupons into receiving containers, including a machine frame, at least one pair of opposed rollers mounted to the frame and adjustable between a closed position and an open position. A moving carriag... | 10/20/2009 |
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| 7475524 | Bar packing plant and relative process Plant for packing bars after the rolling cycle comprising a feeding unit, a shear (45) for cutting the bar to size, a pair of deflector devices (46), (47) and a bar braking device. The bar segment deflector devices send the bar segments into sea... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7434373 | Method for automatically cutting and removing stacks of pieces in a web of sheet material Stacks of pieces (24) are cut out from the lay-up (20) on a cutting table, on the basis of recorded information relating to the locations of the pieces on the surface of the lay-up, and the skeleton (26) of the lay-up is split up (lines 28 | 10/14/2008 |
| 7421832 | Supplying a strip of material A package of a strip of material is formed by slitting or perforating a web to separate the web into side by side strips and fan folding the web to form a plurality of side by side stacks of the strips. The strip of each stack is spliced to the strip of the next sta... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7370456 | Packaging object supplying apparatus, box body supplying apparatus, boxing apparatus, packaging system and packaging method A packaging object supplying apparatus for supplying a packaging object to a packaging unit for packaging the packaging object into a predetermined fashion and specifically, a packaging object supplying apparatus comprising a packaging object combining portion for f... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7360348 | Method for controlling manufacture of a sheet material A sorting and conveying line provided at an X-ray film cutting and collection operation includes a defective sheet gate, a collection gate and a sample gate for sorting X-ray film sheets, which have been cut to a predetermined size at a cutting section, while the X-... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360344 | Method and apparatus for sleeve or band-type packaging of a compressible article A packaging system for packaging a compressible article, such as a stack of interfolded paper towels, includes a sleeve supply arrangement for supplying a packaging sleeve to a loading area, a reciprocating article supply arrangement for selectively positioning a co... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7331162 | Package sealer for slicing machine A slicing machine has a deposition surface adapted to support a fusible bottom sheet. Slices are cut from a foodstuff and deposited as a stack on the bottom sheet on the surface between edges of the surface so that a fusible top sheet can be placed atop the stack. R... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7305806 | Pattern former for wrapped bakery products and method for loading and unloading bakery products A pattern former for assembling wrapped bakery products into predetermined patterns comprises a perforated vacuum turntable. Vacuum is applied to the vacuum turntable while bakery products are loaded thereon and positioned in a predetermined pattern. Once the bakery... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7302785 | Packaging machine with a movable centering and lowering device for inserting partitions between groups of bottles or cans and a method of operation thereof A packaging machine with a movable centering and lowering device for inserting partitions between groups of bottles or cans and a method of operation thereof. The movable centering and lowering device is designed to move with a group of bottles or cans and insert a ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7299728 | Loaf end trimming station for slicing machine A loaf end trimming station for a high speed food loaf slicing machine, includes a frame, a first knife and a second knife spaced apart along the frame and oriented in positions corresponding to a lead end trimming location and a trailing end trimming location of a ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7284973 | Moulding The invention provides methods and moulding devices for moulding three-dimensional products from a mass of foodstuff which is suitable for human consumption, in particular from a mass of meat, in particular chicken. The method comprises filling a mould cavity with a... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7266936 | Agricultural bagger with shielded hopper agitation and method An agricultural bagger apparatus and method for compacting feed into a horizontally deployed bag including a moving hopper wall and+ mechanism for moving the wall at an input end of hopper. The wall moving mechanism and the moving wall of the hopper sweeps the feed ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7250056 | Lancet-integrated mounter and method of making the same A mounter (3) integrally provided with a lancing element (47B) and analyzer includes a lancing member (47) provided with the lancing element (47B), a first member (4) including an accommodation portion (40) for holding the l... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7234288 | Folder sheets with reinforced holes, method and apparatus of making same A method of manufacturing folder sheets with reinforce holes, which comprises unwinding a spindled paper band; printing predetermined graphics on the paper band; causing the paper band to go through corona treatment; applying a reinforcement strip of thermoplastic m... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7223429 | Method and apparatus for making loaves crustless, sliced bread A method of making a loaf of crustless, sliced bread from a rectangular prismatic loaf of bread, the method comprising: decrusting the bread by moving the loaf of broad longitudinally past cutting blades to remove the crust from four sides of the loaf of bread; slic... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7223431 | Method for shredding blocks of material A method of shredding a block of material, which can be a block of cheese, includes moving blades about an axis and feeding a block of material in a feed plane toward the moving blades in a feeding direction, where the feeding direction is substantially perpendicula... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7220441 | Method and a packaging for packaging and freezing food substances A method of packaging and freezing food substance comprising shaping of a plate of unfrozen food substance and subsequent packaging and freezing of the unfrozen plate of food substance, and wherein a carton packaging is used for packaging the unfrozen plate of the f... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7216470 | Sheet package producing system A sheet package producing system for producing a sheet package having a predetermined number of sheets or X-ray films is provided. A cutting/stacking device forms the sheets by cutting continuous sheet at a regular length, and for stacking the sheets in the predeter... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7199860 | Method of processing a roll of exposed photographic film containing photographic images into corresponding digital images and then distributing visual prints produced from the digital images This invention is directed to a method of processing at least one digital image of at least one photographic image and distributing at least one visual print produced from the at least one digital image. The method includes the steps of storing at least one digital ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7191578 | Pattern former for wrapped bakery products and bakery tray loading system A pattern former for assembling wrapped bakery products into predetermined patterns includes a vacuum turntable. A first transfer apparatus moves groups of wrapped bakery products onto the vacuum turntable and a second transfer apparatus moves assembled patterns of ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7185574 | Method and device for separating disc-shaped bodies from an original body A device for separating disc-shaped bodies from an original body includes a separating device, a feeding device, an optical recognition device for determining the front face contour of the original body and lamps for illuminating the surroundings of the cutting surf... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7178669 | Tire storage system A tire storage system is disclosed, for securely storing one or more tires. The tire storage system consists of two identical tire caps and a connecting spacer. One of the tire caps is placed horizontally on a flat surface. The used tire is placed upon one of the ti... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7175172 | Method and device for inserting a plurality of individual sheetlike forms of administration in a dispenser by forming a multilayer pile A process for introducing a plurality of segregated sheet-like administration forms into a dispenser under formation of a multilayered stack for individually dosable removal, with sheet-like tapes wound-up on rolls being present as starting material, utilizes the fo... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7155877 | System for use in an assembly line A transfer system (10) is comprised of an air conveyor (11), a servo conveyor (12), and a fan feeder (13). In a typical configuration, the air conveyor is located at a first location where it receives packaged articles from a bagger syste... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7144470 | Process and device for producing electronic anti-theft elements This invention concerns a process and a device for producing strip elements for electronically securing articles and a corresponding produced strip element. The aim of the invention is to present a process, a device, and a strip element which can be economically pro... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7143567 | Unit for packaging and palletizing rolls of toilet paper and/or kitchen towel Unit for packaging and palletizing rolls of paper comprising a bagging and/or forming machine adapted to sort packages of said rolls into batches or to bag said sorted loose packages in a plastic bag, and a palletizing station comprising at lease one manipulator pro... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7140168 | Device for packaging continuous webs of materials such as selvedges generated on thermoforming units The device for packaging continuous webs of materia1, such as selvedges generated on thermoforming units, includes an input regulator of webs, driving guide for the webs, a cutting unit and, downstream thereof, a collector for bits of webs. The cutting unit has at l... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7121066 | Installation for slicing and packaging bread An installation for slicing whole loaves and packaging each sliced loaf in its entirety or in halves after splitting of the loaf that has been sliced in its entirety. The installation comprises a slicing device for slicing whole loaves, and a packaging device... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7117657 | Delivery point packager takeaway system and method An apparatus is provided for packaging and taking away packaged sequenced product such as mail pieces. The apparatus includes a packaging device having an output end, and adapted to package sequenced products. A clamping device is adjacent to the output end of the p... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7076934 | Pattern former for wrapped bakery products A pattern former for assembling wrapped bakery products into predetermined patterns includes a vacuum turntable comprising a perforated plate which is driven by a belt extending around the periphery of the vacuum turntable and actuated by a motor. A first transfer a... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7048484 | Method of shipping and storing removable tread belts for very large tires An improved method of shipping and storing tires having a removable tread belt mounted to a tire carcass which are typically used on large vehicles such as earthmovers. The method includes shipping the tread belt separately from the tire carcass; and holding two opp... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7021031 | Process for making pre-formed objects A continuous line process for making a packaged cosmetic device comprising a pre-formed sheet and a coating composition in a sealed package, wherein the pre-formed sheet is produced from a sol phase composition comprising a solvent and a gelling agent having a sol-g... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6993890 | Method and apparatus for detecting unique items during insertion into a product packaging system A novel method and apparatus of detecting unique items as they are inserted into a product packaging system that is easily adaptable to current product packaging and prize insertion systems. A number of different types of sensors may be used in conjunction with the ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6994206 | Apparatus for feeding rolls of cut products to a wrapper An apparatus for advancing cut products from a saw to a wrapper includes a plurality of product supports for supporting multiple rows of cut products. A first or buffer portion of the apparatus includes an entry portion of the product supports and includes a first c... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6978586 | Pattern former for wrapped bakery products A pattern former for assembling wrapped bakery products into predetermined patterns includes a vacuum turntable comprising a perforated plate which is driven by a belt extending around the periphery of the vacuum turntable and actuated by a motor. A first transfer a... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6973867 | Valve controlled fluidic actuator system A valve controlled fluid power actuator arrangement having a fluid power valve arrangement (61) controlled by an electronic control means (63 through 65) being connected by means of at least one plastic fluid power line (11) with at least... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6975381 | Image printing system An image printing system is a system which forms images continuously on a long photosensitive material. The image printing system includes an inputting unit for making reservations for cutting of the photosensitive material by the unit of order. The reserved orders ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6942404 | Marker tubing processing methods and apparatus A processing system according to the present invention includes a printer that receives unprocessed marker tubing stock (i.e., multiple rows of uncut and unprinted tubing mounted on a carrier) for simultaneous printing of the marker tubing and the carrier with a sin... | 09/13/2005 |