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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 |
| 7231943 | Device for a weaving machine A power weaving loom includes weft thread insertion and collecting bands (6, 7). Drive units drive the bands and cause leading parts of the bands to move towards and away from one another between sides of the weaving machine and an approximately half-width po... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7128098 | Transfer gripper for a rapier weaving loom A thread section of a weft thread is held precisely ready for a receiving rapier in a feed rapier on a rapier loom despite the effects of retarding forces. Deflections of the thread section by the head of a receiving gripper are compensated for, whereby the feed rap... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7114530 | Receiving gripper for a rapier loom A receiving gripper for a rapier loom, wherein at least the moving part is made of a ceramic material. ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7044174 | Method and device for opening a gripper clip of a mechanical-loom gripper A stop element (24) is used to open a gripper clamp (20) of a weaving machine (3) and is associated to the gripper clamp's stop piece (21) and the stop element during the slow mode operation of the weaving machine is transversely moved in... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6988516 | Device for driving and guiding a rapier of a weaving machine A device for driving and guiding a rapier of a weaving machine, comprises a rotatable drive wheel (1) provided for driving a rapier rod (14) in a back and forth movement and a guide channel formed by adjustable guide bodies (10), (11) in ... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6845792 | Thread clamp for a carrier thread gripper in a rapier loom Thread clamping arrangement for a carrier gripper of a rapier loom wherein the arrangement includes a rigid support coupled to a lateral wall of a body of the carrier gripper. Each of an elongated first clamping element and an elongated second clamping element are p... | 01/25/2005 |
| 5862837 | Thread holder for a bringer rapier A thread holder comprises two holding members which form a gap that has a round cross-sectional shape and increasing width. Each of the thread holders is journalled on the other holding member at at least one bearing location which is executed as a bearin... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5114775 | Gripper rod for shuttleless looms and method for making the gripper rod A gripper rod for shuttleless looms has a toothed rack made of fiber reinforced composite material. The prepregs are stacked in such a way that the fiber orientation in one layer crosses the fiber orientation of at least one neighboring layer. A sufficien... | 05/19/1992 |
| 4558722 | Apparatus for the constrained actuation of the clamping system of filling yarn inserting members in shuttleless weaving machines In a shuttleless weaving machine wherein the filling yarn is inserted from both sides of the shed by means of gripper systems provided with filling yarn clamping devices and advanced into and then retracted from the shed. The filling yarn is transferred f... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4320785 | Mechanism on shuttleless looms for the transfer of the end of the weft yarn A mechanism on shuttleless looms for the transfer of the end 17' of the weft yarn from a yarn holder 26, 27 on a nosegripper 6 of a yarn insertion needle to a yarn clamp 13, 14 arranged on the machine frame and immovable in the weft direction. The yarn cl... | 03/23/1982 |
| 4100941 | Rapier looms A rapier for use with a rapier loom has a drive member which is spaced laterally from the rapier but extends parallel to the rapier, the rapier and drive member being connected together by the butt end of the rapier, so that in use the drive member can pa... | 07/18/1978 |
| 3998248 | Weft band with carrier for looper looms A weft band with carrier for looper looms in which the weft band has a material recess or recesses in the area of the connection of the weft band to the looper.... | 12/21/1976 |
