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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 |
| 7900479 | Method and device for melting the ends of rods The invention relates to a method for treating the ends of glass rods in which glass rods are inserted into receptacles in a carrier and with the carrier are carried past a burner and at least one rail in an advancing direction, the flame of the burner melting at le... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7401478 | Manufacturing methods of double-spiral arc tubes The manufacturing method comprises: a softening step of softening a straight glass tube in a heating furnace; a moving and placing step of moving the softened glass tube so that the glass tube is placed on the top of the mandrel; and a winding step of winding the gl... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7392667 | Method and an apparatus for shaping a tubular object made of thermoplastic material The invention relates to a method for shaping a tubular object made of glass or glass ceramics or any other thermoplastic material, comprising the following method steps: the object is heated up to softening; an in... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7302814 | Apparatus for preventing deflection of substrate tube An apparatus for producing an optical fiber preform to perform the deposition process by modified chemical vapor deposition. The Apparatus comprises a main heat source location sensor (800) for detecting the location of a main heat source for heating a substr... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7147451 | Apparatus for restoring the necked-down end of a tubular core An apparatus for restoring a necked-down end of a plastic core includes molding and curing stations and a core handling system having a carriage for sequentially positioning the core adjacent the stations. The molding and curing stations are heated and cooled, respe... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7093464 | Device for supporting a horizontal guided glass strand The invention concerns a device for supporting a horizontal guided, continuous glass strand; with a number of supporting blocks, which each exhibits a supporting area, facing the glass strand; the individual suppor... | 08/22/2006 |
| 6997016 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing glass tube Stress exerted on an inner or outer circumferential side of a glass tube 6 is controlled when a glass material 3 is heated and softened by a heating element 41 provided around the glass material 3 and a piercing plug 31 is relative... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6935137 | Method of and apparatus for forming discharge tubes of low-pressure discharge lamps There is disclosed a method for forming a discharge tube for a low-pressure discharge lamp. In the method, an end of a section of the discharge tube is fastened with first clamping means, and a second end of the section in held in an oriented position. The section i... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6926729 | Low profile valve and method of making A low profile inflation valve located inside a balloon catheter that enables a user to inflate the balloon and exchange other medical apparatus over the catheter while the balloon remains inflated. The low profile inflation valve of the present invention incl... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6925839 | Method for making capillary splice A method of making a capillary splice includes applying pressure to a bore in a tube, applying heat to a portion of the tube to soften the portion of the tube, and forming a bubble within the bore in the heated portion under the influence of the pressure and heat. W... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6820444 | Method and apparatus for forming glass coiled tube An apparatus for forming glass coiled tubes from a source of glass in which a molten glass thread is drawn, and a method for forming glass coiled tubes. The apparatus has a shaping mandrel having a first end and an opposing second end, having a desired shape for rec... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6769276 | Internal adjustable mold apparatus for shaping the end of a fiber preform tube Apparatus for shaping a selected end region of a hollow cylindrical glass tube includes an internal mold placed within the selected end region for supporting the walls of the tube and controlling the shape of the internal surface of selected end region of the tube, ... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6739151 | Method of producing a quartz glass tube and drill body for performing the method In a known method of producing a quartz glass tube (22), a cylinder (21) of quartz glass which rotates about a rotational axis (27) is continuously fed to a heating zone (24), softened therein in portions starting from one end, and the so... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6568216 | Method for manufacturing a discharge tube A method for manufacturing a discharge tube, including heating a quartz tube by irradiation and closing it shut, is presented, in which variation of the heating temperature of the quartz tube can be reduced. Laser light is irradiated on a portion of the q... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6560995 | Method for manufacturing a fluorescent lamp A method for manufacturing a glass tube used for a fluorescent lamp having an arc tube constructed by joining a plurality of glass tubes is provided. According to this method, a straight glass tube held at both ends is rotated, and a predetermined cutting... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6557379 | Method of producing an arc tube A pair of chucks, which grip end portions of a cylindrical glass tube blank, are moved by a chuck moving mechanism toward each other, so that softened glass in an intermediate portion of the cylindrical glass tube blank is gathered, thereby forming a shap... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6536239 | Apparatus and method for shaping glass tubes with molds A mold for shaping the end region and the opening at a selected end of a first, hollow, generally cylindrical, glass tube to enable a second tube, of smaller diameter than the first tube, to be inserted snuggly a first distance within the selected end of ... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6519976 | Method for production of silica glass using sol-gel process A composition for production of silica glass using a sol-gel process is described, comprising silica particles, a dispersing agent, and a solution containing a polymerizable monomer for formation of acrylic resin and a crosslink agent dissolved in distill... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6497119 | Method for producing glass goblets, tumblers and similar hollow glasses, and corresponding device for carrying out said method A device and process for forming hollow glassware comprising producing solid glass blanks in a manufacturing line, storing the blanks, feeding the blanks to a manufacturing line for forming hollow glassware, preheating the blanks during the feeding step, ... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6487878 | Method for manufacturing a discharge tube A method for manufacturing a discharge tube, including heating a quartz tube by irradiation and closing it shut, is presented, in which variation of the heating temperature of the quartz tube can be reduced. Laser light is irradiated on a portion of the q... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6415631 | Method and apparatus for making an article from a formable material A method and apparatus are described for making an article such as the body of a needleless injector capsule, from a formable material, such as glass, the article having a cavity communicating with the exterior via an orifice. A blank having an open end i... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6415630 | Method and device for producing a homogenous sheet of quartz glass without streaks In a method for producing a streak-free quartz glass sheet with a highly homogeneous degree of refraction, a quartz glass rod is lowered into a melting pot parallel to a longitudinal axis of the quartz glass rod. A cross-section of the melting pot is larg... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6405565 | Chalcogenide glass tubing fabrication An apparatus and process for fabricating tubing used in the making of chalcogenide fibers. The apparatus features a three-sectioned melt/spin ampoule that allows for fabricating the chalcogenide tubing without introducing impurities and contaminants, in a... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6370916 | Flare manufacturing method It is an object of the present invention to reduce variations in dimensional accuracy such as the outer-diameter accuracy and roundness of a flare shape and the concentricity between the bulb portion and the flare portion. According to the present inventi... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6341502 | Method and machine for the manufacturing of syringes A method and an machine for the manufacturing of syringes by vertically feeding long glass tubes to an intermittently rotary forming machine, having two horizontally rotary machine sections each intermittently rotating on a central vertical axis of a stat... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6216493 | Method and apparatus for making an article from a formable material A method and apparatus are described for making an article such as the body of a needleless injector capsule, from a formable material, such as glass, the article having a cavity communicating with the exterior via an orifice. A blank (1a) having an open ... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6209353 | Method for producing an object having a flange and apparatus therefor A known method for producing an object having a flanged tubular portion at the outer periphery, comprises supplying a continuously extended, cylindrical body made of the flange material to a welding zone at the tubular portion of the object and welding th... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6134920 | Method of preparing glass cartridges Methods of plastically forming an axially extended zone of the interior surface of a hollow glass tube heated to its forming temperature employ a generally cylindrical embossing mandrel connected to a driving shaft. The hollow glass tube and the embossing... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6016669 | Pulsed fuel-oxygen burner and method for rotatable workpieces An apparatus for applying heat to a rotatable workpiece is disclosed. A rotating lathe is provided for mounting a workpiece, for example a quartz tube, thereto so as to enable rotation of the workpiece. At least one translatable burner is coupled to a fue... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5913705 | Method of making a halogen incandescent lamp To provide a halogen incandescent bulb with controlled variation in wall ckness of the bulb, a bulb tube (20) first has a cup region (26) formed thereon. The cup region, by radial application of force, for example by rollers (22), is constricted, and the... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5803944 | Lathe for blowing glass A lathe for blowing glass. The lathe includes a lower section and an upper section removably attached to the lower section to form a housing. A motor is operably connected to a gear assembly. At least one roller assembly rotatably supports a blowpipe. An ... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5788733 | Device for the shaping of glass tubes In a device for shaping glass tubes (32), the shaping tools (3, 4), which are designed as shaping rollers, are mounted on a rotary table (2) that encloses the glass tube (32) and that rotates at a speed that is several times higher than the speed of rotat... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5766295 | Method of manufacturing a spiral fluorescent tube A fluorescent tube which is used for bulb-type fluorescent lamps is spirally wound, so that the effective length of the tube is increased. While a fluorescent tube is kept vertical, it is rotated and heated evenly at the part to be wound to a glass soften... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5711781 | Apparatus and method for heating an elongated glass An apparatus for heating an elongated glass body, which, for example, may be used as a pre-form for the drawing of glass fibers, includes a rotatable first chuck wherein the first end of the elongated glass body may be rotatably secured. In addition the a... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5639288 | Method for furnishing glass tube with internal glass spiral A method to provide a glass tube with an internal glass spiral being formed from a straight glass rod and fastened to the internal wall of the glass tube by merging the glass rod with the glass wall in the line of contact between the glass wall and the sp... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5611834 | Method for controlling the free deformation of thermoplastic material The invention is directed to a method for controlling the free deformation of thermoplastic material in an automated process for processing the material to form articles. These articles are especially ampules, small bottles and the like produced from glas... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5580365 | Method of making a glass diffusion cell The method of making a glass diffusion cell which utilizes taking of an inner glass tube and forming an enlarged annular flange at one end of this tube and in the sidewall of this tube forming a refilling port and a sampling port. This inner glass tube is... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5573566 | Method of making a quartz dome reactor chamber A method of making a quartz dome for a reactor chamber from a substantially flat quartz disk. The quartz disk is placed on a graphite ring which is rotated. The quartz disk is heated until the disk is softened slightly and it begins to slump. The softened... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5512078 | Apparatus for making linearly tapered bores in quartz tubing with a controlled laser Method and apparatus for providing a linearly tapered bore in quartz/glass tubing includes a laser and elements for focusing the laser onto the glass tubing. The glass/quartz tubing is rotated in the laser beam and is moved vertically in the laser beam to... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5407136 | Ink-jet nozzle A nozzle for an ink-jet printer is provided having a gradually converging inner diameter leading to an orifice less than 15 microns in diameter and having an outer nozzle diameter proximate the orifice at least as great as the outer diameter at other poin... | 04/18/1995 |
