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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 |
| 7389727 | Self-inking stamp having ink pad container with recesses engaging guiding and centering projections on housing sidewalls A self-inking stamp is filled with ink by the top thereof at a pressure. The stamp has a housing and a stamping unit which is connected to an actuating element, movably arranged in the housing and provided with stamping characters. The housing also has a drawer whic... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7334521 | Hand held two-ended ink stamper A two-ended ink stamper has at least one handle with at least two ends. A first frame and a second frame are provided, and each frame is disposed adjacent to a different one of the ends of the handle. Each frame extends in a different direction from the handle. At l... | 02/26/2008 |
| 6983691 | Retractable stamp A retractable stamp has a longitudinal spring with a tension that can be adjusted. The adjustable stamp has a housing, a base, a cover, a handle, an adjustment knob and a position ring. The housing has a character unit mounted inside, and the base is mounted on the ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6968781 | Ink cartridge for hand stamp An ink cartridge or inkpad for use in a hand stamp in which the cartridge is made up of two parts. There is a frame portion and a central removed portion or well. Ink is deposited into the well and absorbed by the foam stamping member and the frame portion. In a fir... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6945172 | Housing assembly for a self-inking stamp A housing assembly for a self-inking stamp includes a movable case, two pressing keepers and a protective film. The movable case has two opposite sides and two keeper mounting holes respectively defined through the sides of the movable case and aligned with each oth... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6935231 | Stamp A stamp, comprising a stamping case; a rail provided inside said stamping case, having a locus of making a U-turn on a stamping surface of a stamp; and a strip belt for sliding along said rail by being engaged with the rail, attached a plurality of stamping surfaces... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6910418 | Variable pattern stamp A variable pattern stamp has a base and a stamp plate unit. The base has smooth face and preferably is transparent. The stamp plate unit has multiple pattern plates and a protective sheet. The pattern plates have different or the same patterns and are preferably tra... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6834584 | Pocket hand stamp A compact hand stamp is disclosed. The hand stamp may include a platen and corresponding marking structure that can be moved between a rest position, where a design on the marking structure is remote from a surface to be imprinted and is arranged at an angle of abou... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6813999 | Ink pad for self-inking stamp Ink pad for a self-inking stamp which is provided with a housing with a support frame (1′) and a stamp platen support (3) which by a swivel motion is movable in this housing from an idle position into a stamping position and which is connected to an ... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6769360 | Electronic stamp An electronic stamp or method for performing stamps where one or several sets of phototransistors (8), with associated light emitting diodes (9), are mounted on a print head (3) that is hand-operated along beams (5) with the aid of a leve... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6761114 | Self-inking stamp A self-inking stamp with overhead inking, with a lower component for placement on the surface to be stamped, with a swivel mechanism for a print platen support arranged in the lower component for swiveling reciprocal movement of a print platen support between a stam... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6739255 | Stamp, method, and apparatus The stamp (10) for use in a lithographic process, such as patterning a surface layer, of the invention has a stamp body (1) with a first (11) and a second side (12), at which first side (11) a printing face (2) is present an... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6679165 | Window adapted to a dater A window adapted to a dater has a screen hole adapted to be defined to correspond to lead numerals of the dater, two positioning seats oppositely formed to be detachable to the dater, and a patterned face formed on a bottom face thereof. The window is abl... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6676315 | Printing and delivery device for label tags In a device for printing and delivering semi-rigid tag-type labels (5) to packaging and sealing machines a feed means has a finger (13) translationally moved to and fro, which during the working stroke grasps behind a shoulder of the respective label and ... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6415714 | Ink stamping systems and methods A system for forming artistic ink impressions. A case stores ink stamping accessories and/or allows large surface area stamps to be used.... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6244180 | Ink stamping systems and methods A system for forming artistic ink impressions. A case stores ink stamping accessories and/or allows large surface area stamps to be used.... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6080033 | Footprint generating toy A footprint generating toy that is worn on a person's foot, and enables the wearer to leave liquid or dry simulated footprints. The footprint generating toy is made from an absorbent, moisture retaining material that, after being soaked in water, will lea... | 06/27/2000 |
| 5893100 | System and method for tree ordered coding of sparse data sets A data encoder and method utilizes a node list for storing a list of nodes in the data array to be processed, a branch list for storing a list of tree branches in the data array to be processed and a set list for storing a list of data sets. The method be... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5765484 | Stamping device having skirt and spring combination A stamping device (10) which comprises a body (11) having an open bottom end (12), a stamping member (21) provided at the body bottom end (12), a skirt (14) supported at the body bottom end (12) around the stamping member (21) for movement between a lower... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5709145 | Matrix plate holder and matrix plate for a hand stamp A matrix plate and a matrix plate holder for a hand stamp are disclosed, wherein the matrix plate can be easily attached to and detached from the matrix plate holder. The matrix plate includes a mounting element defining a guide, a pair of arc-shaped fitt... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5462595 | Ink pad with refillable ink reservoir An ink pad device with ink reservoir for coating a stamping device with ink comprising ink reservoir, cap, housing, high-absorbency ink pad, low-absorbency ink pad and ink pad cover. The present invention incorporates an ink reservoir to an ink pad so tha... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5460086 | Zip code to postnet conversion printing device A bar code conversion device for automatically converting the decimal digits of a selected postal ZIP Code into the corresponding POSTNET bar code has a first set of digit wheels with faces for the decimal digits, a second set of bar code wheels with face... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5450791 | Marking device A marking device for marking designs on golf balls includes a housing in which an ink pad is disposed. At least one marking plug is removably mounted in the housing by a screw thread connection. One end of the marking plug includes a design projection. If... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5427023 | Mailing machine having a disposable inking cartridge A mailing machine with a rotatable drum including a printing die peripherally extending therefrom, structure for intermittently rotating the drum to move the printing die in a predetermined circularly-extending path of travel, a receptacle, and a disposab... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5406885 | Inking cartridge A disposable inking cartridge adapted to be removably connected to a mailing machine, the cartridge comprising: a generally rectangularly-shaped hollow housing having opposed side walls and having an edge wall extending between the side walls, the walls d... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5353700 | Mailing machine including movable inking cartridge A mailing machine including a base; a postage meter removably mountable on the base; the base and meter respectively including structure for guiding the meter in a path of travel to a predetermined position on the base when mounting the meter thereon; and... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5339734 | Personal barcoder This invention describes a hand-held unit incorporating a plurality of character carrying members in the form of continuous bands or strips which can be mechanically adjusted, as desired, to display a series of desired analog numbers at the first location... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5237919 | Personal barcoder This invention describes a hand-held unit incorporating a plurality of character carrying memberss in the form of continuous bands or strips which can be mechanically adjusted, as desired, to display a series of desired analog numbers at a first location ... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5205214 | Stamp device having controlled projection amount of ink pad from pad holder Print density of a print ink can be adjusted depending on the quality of a print paper or depending on the printing times. A stamp device includes an outer frame, a hand-gripped pressure unit movably supported by the outer frame, an ink cartridge, a pad h... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5181465 | Ribbon guide system for a line printer A printer apparatus has a frame member supporting an endless revolving type band in alignment with a row of print hammers with a gap therebetween. Ribbon spools with ribbon wound thereon are rotatably supported in spool housings at either end and on oppos... | 01/26/1993 |
| 5174208 | Ink marker A self inking stamp is provided for use in making an image on paper. The stamp comprises a body having a base including portions lying in a plane for engagement with a flat piece of paper, and a marker having a self inking indicia. The maker is movable re... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5111745 | Ink stamps An ink stamp with a handle having a downwardly extending shaft from which a pre-inked stamp is suspended. An intermediate member is threaded onto the shaft and abuts the top of a hollow base housing the pre-inked stamp to limit downward movement of the st... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5105738 | Articulated hand stamp An articulating hand stamp mechanism is disclosed which is capable of being articulated between closed and open positions. In the closed position, a pair of pivotally connected split housings enclose the stamp pad and its housing completely. The mechanism... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5088406 | Structure of automatic stamping machine An automatic stamping machine, comprising an electronic control system to control a driving mechanism to carry an automatic ribbon take-up mechanism and a noise deadening device to perform automatic stamping operation with operational noise simultaneously... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5056433 | Ink tray with dispersion channels An ink tray has been improved to include a plurality of channel ribs formed on the bottom surface. The rib ends are spaced apart from the ink tray side walls. An ink pad is supported in the ink tray above the channels such that ink directed through the ch... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5048414 | Automatic stamper Described herein is an automatic stamper for imprinting desired letters or characters on documents, which is of the type including a printing block having a plural number of stamp units mounted around the circumference of a drum, a support frame rotatably... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048415 | Stamp combination A stamp has a housing and a stem provided on the housing. A lid is provided on the stem. A holder is connected to the lid by a rod and is receivable in the housing. A number of grooves are formed in a bottom of a lower casing. An upper casing and the lowe... | 09/17/1991 |
| 4901158 | Verification stamp equipment Disclosed is a stamping device for use in facsimile equipment, wherein a document has a mark stamped hereon after its information has been transmitted. The stamp device is composed of a stamp body which has a stamp face for marking the document and a hand... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4760787 | Multicolor inking mechanism for a printer A two color printer of the ink roll type which can attain change-over in color with high accuracy with a simple construction. The printer comprises a plurality of type wheels arranged in a row and a pair of ink rolls in which inks of different colors are ... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4742771 | Postal code envelope printer A machine printer for marking a machine readable code on envelopes and the like allows house holders and small businesses to print the postal precode on envelopes so they can be read by a machine reader rather than a keypunch operator. The printer has an ... | 05/10/1988 |
