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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 |
| 7350508 | Advance arrangements An advance arrangement for use in controlling timing of fuel delivery by a fuel pump for use in an engine comprises an advance piston (12) which is slidable within a first bore (14) and which cooperates, in use, with a cam arrangement of a fuel pump to... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7261087 | High-pressure variable-flow-rate pump for a fuel-injection system The high-pressure pump (7) comprises a number of pumping elements (18) actuated in reciprocating motion through corresponding suction and delivery strokes. Each pumping element (18) is provided with a corresponding intake valve (25), in c... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7237537 | Compression-ignition engine configuration for reducing pollutants and method and system thereof In accordance with one aspect of the present technique, a method of reducing pollutant emissions from a compression-ignition engine is provided. The method includes adjusting timing of fuel injection into a combustion chamber of a piston-cylinder assembly of the com... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7176600 | Poling system for piezoelectric diaphragm structures A circuit provides energy to a plurality of piezoelectric diaphragm structures formed in a two-dimensional array. Each piezoelectric diaphragm structure includes a piezoelectric element in operational contact with at least a first side electrode and a second side el... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7089789 | System for calibrating an integrated injection nozzle and injection pump A fuel injection system (18) is calibrated as an assembled system. The fuel injection system (18) includes a unit pump (10) a cam follower (24), a joined fuel injection line (14) and injection nozzle (16). The fuel injection... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7066151 | Fuel injector with spill chamber A fuel injection system has a spill chamber fluidly connected between a high pressure side and low pressure side with a spill valve that is synchronized with the control valve. The spill chamber has a movable piston that is pressure balanced at a first position duri... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7063077 | Electromagnetic valve-actuated control module for controlling fluid in injection systems The invention relates to a control module for fluid control in injection systems, having a valve body (2) in which valve needles (6, 24) of control valves (5, 17) are received. With these control valves (5, 17), the pressure buildup or pr... | 06/20/2006 |
| 6974312 | Pumping element for hydraulic pump A pumping element for a hydraulic pump is provided. The pumping element includes a cylinder forming a compression chamber and having a discharge port. A piston having a pressure surface, a spill port, and a passageway connecting the pressure surface with the spill p... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6953022 | Fuel injection pump A fuel injection pump, comprising three sub-mechanism parts; a lower mechanism part (A), a head mechanism part (B), and a governor mechanism part (C), wherein, when the governor mechanism part (C) is assembled into the combination of the lower mechanism part (A) and... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6782870 | Fuel injection pump having hydraulic timer mechanism and load timer mechanism A load timer mechanism of a fuel injection pump includes a governor shaft, which is secured to a housing, and a governor sleeve, which is axially slidably supported around the governor shaft. The governor shaft includes a fuel relief passage, which is communicated w... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6718951 | Advance arrangement An advance arrangement for use in controlling timing of fuel delivery by a fuel pump comprises an advance piston which is moveable within a first bore and which cooperates, in use, with a cam arrangement of a fuel pump to adjust the timing of fuel delivery by the pu... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6637408 | Common rail fuel supply system with high pressure accumulator A self-regulating direct injection fuel delivery system for a motor vehicle includes a common rail having an accumulator including a relatively large fuel volume. The accumulator is connected in fluid communication with a distributor having a relatively s... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6546916 | Fuel injection pump timing mechanism A mechanism for advancing and retarding the injection timing of a mechanically-actuated fuel injection pump. The mechanism includes a housing having a bore slidably receivable of an advance piston which cooperates with a lever of the fuel injector timing ... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6488014 | Fuel injection pump In a fuel injection pump with a housing, a metering pump and an injection adjuster for the metering pump, in which the injection adjuster has a piston that is acted upon by a restoring spring, the starting performance of the internal combustion engine sup... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6363917 | Fuel injector pump advance arrangement An advance arrangement for a fuel injection pump, comprising a housing slidably receiving an advance piston which, in use, cooperates with the fuel injection pump to adjust the timing of fuel delivery by the pump, and, a light load piston associated with ... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6189514 | Electronic fuel injection apparatus In an electronic fuel injection apparatus which controls a fuel injection timing of a fuel injection pump for a diesel engine through a timing control valve, when the time during which a present final feedback correction quantity obtained by adding, to th... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6186118 | Integrated fuel rail and direct injection fuel pump A vehicle fuel system has an integrated fuel rail and fuel pump that supplies high pressure fuel directly to the injectors mounted on the engine. The pump is a double acting single piston pump that has two pumping chambers formed co-axially in a single ca... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6004106 | Distributor type fuel injection pump and power transmission device In a distributor type fuel injection pump and a power transmission pump for transmitting power to the fuel injection pump, when a rotation system member of the injection pump is seized if anything should happen, only an injection pump is damaged to thereb... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5873346 | Fuel injection pump A fuel injection pump is proposed, with an annular slide (20) that is displaceable on the pump piston by a governor and that has a control edge by which a relief conduit of the pump work chamber can be opened in the course of the pump piston supply stroke... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5575261 | Fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines The invention relates to a fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines with a pump plunger (18), a drive shaft (11) for the actuation of the pump plunger (18) and a rotational-angle sensor (30) for detecting the angular position of the drive shaft... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5474430 | Fuel injection pump A fuel injection pump of the distributor type for a multicylinder internal combustion engine has a pump piston that both rotates and is driven in the lifting direction for generating a fuel injection pressure in a pump work chamber, and a magnet valve tha... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5406923 | Fuel injection pump A cam ring for a cam drive of a distributor radial piston injection pump. Said cam ring includes on the outside a connecting member which is formed in one piece that is particularly roller-shaped with an axis parallel to the axis of the cam ring and that ... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5357930 | Fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines A fuel injection pump has an inner chamber, a drive shaft extending into the inner chamber, a front cam plate setting a pump plunger into a reciprocating and rotating movement, a front face coupling which couples the drive shaft with the front cam plate, ... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5355857 | Fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines has a pump housing, at least one pump piston which is rotatable and reciprocatingly movable, a cam drive which rotates and reciprocatingly moves the pump piston and includes a stationary part and a rot... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5343845 | Fuel injection pump for internal-combustion engines A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines has a pump cylinder, a pump plunger enclosing a pump work space and reciprocating in the pump cylinder, a fuel injection valve, a fuel injection line connectable with the pump work space and leading to... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5325837 | Fuel injection apparatus for internal combustion engines A fuel injection apparatus for internal combustion engines comprising a pump work chamber defined in a bore of a housing by a pump piston. The pump work chamber is supplied with fuel and relieved via a fuel line containing a magnet control valve. Moreover... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5285758 | Fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines having a cup-shaped pump housing and a pump head enclosing the housing. The pump head has a cylinder in which a pump piston, which is set into simultaneous reciprocating and rotary motion by a cam driv... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5273017 | Fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines comprises a suction space, a fuel duct, an electrically actuated valve controlling the fuel duct, a fuel supply tank, a distributor having a distributing opening, a plurality of pressure ducts connecta... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5243943 | Fuel injection pump A distributor-type fuel injection pump is provided with a hydraulic injection adjusting mechanism whose injection adjusting piston adjusts the cam gear unit for driving the pump plunger to execute strokes corresponding to the desired position of the start... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5220894 | Fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines for controlling the fuel quantity with an electric closed-loop control device, which controls an electric positioner, which in turn actuates an element that determines the fuel injection quantity per p... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5216993 | Fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines The fuel injection pump having a pump piston, which has a forward segment and a rear segment of larger diameter The pump piston operates in a cylinder bore with two bore segments of different diameters, corresponding to the pump piston diameters. In the f... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5213085 | Fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines having at least one pump piston each of which include one control slide that is axially displaceable on the pump piston. For fuel control, the pump piston is also rotatable, while the control slide is ... | 05/25/1993 |
| 5207201 | Fuel distribution injection pump for internal combustion engines A fuel injection pump of a distributor type for internal combustion engines including, a pump plunger guided within a pump cylinder, which forms a pump chamber and which is driven to perform reciprocating and rotating motion by a driving gear which is sub... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5207199 | Electronic fuel-injection device having read/write memory for storing actuator correction value A fuel injection device includes an actuator for positioning an adjusting member to establish a fuel injection level. A correcting device such as a resistor is provided to compensate for any positional deviation of the adjusting member during assembly of ... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5205262 | Fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines In a fuel injection pump system for internal combustion engines includes a fuel pump whose pump plunger (14) executes an axially reciprocating and rotating movement, and a switching valve (29) which is controlled by a computerized control device (34) and ... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5201297 | Method and apparatus for controlling a high-pressure fuel pumping time in a fuel injection pump It is possible in a simple manner, especially in distributor injection pumps, to attain quiet combustion in the idling range of a Diesel engine, without modifying the basic construction of the fuel injection pump by shifting the injection pumping to the l... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5191868 | Fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines having a load-and/or rpm-dependent injection course A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines with a load- and/or rpm-dependent injection course formed by a reciprocating fuel control slide and a piston pump. The piston includes oppositely disposed slits and the reciprocating control slide has ... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5188083 | Fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines The invention is based on a fuel injection pump in which to supply a very rapid pressure rise in the interior of a fuel injection pump, a pressure valve controlling this pressure is modified such that upon cold starting of the engine, the pressure valve c... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5188084 | Apparatus for controlling fuel injection timing in a fuel injection pump In a fuel injection timing control apparatus for fuel injection pumps having a pressure response type timer in which the timer is controlled to make an actual injection time conincident with a target injection time through PID control, a control constant ... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5186143 | Fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines A distributor type fuel injection pump has a rotary magnet regulator (15) to actuate a control member (14) determining the fuel injection quantity, which rotary magnet regulator (15) is driven by a regulating signal produced in dependence on the operation... | 02/16/1993 |
