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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 |
| 6345714 | Part sorting and aligning apparatus A part sorting and aligning apparatus for picks parts out of a hopper, aligns the parts and conveys them to another location. The apparatus includes a tilted rotary wheel next to the hopper. Multiple arrays of hooks or pickup members are mounted for rotat... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6161676 | Component feeder A component feeder is provided in which damage to chip components is minimized, being capable of efficiently discharging chip components aligned in a line. A bulk case is attached on the top portion of an outer storage housing capable of being supplied by... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6059518 | Method and apparatus for uniformly orienting shafts with dissimilar ends The invention, in its various embodiments is a method and apparatus for uniformly orienting shafts which contain an operational feature on one end and which are blunt on the other end. In one aspect of the present invention, a machine feeds the shafts ont... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6019212 | Apparatus for aligning parts A part-aligning apparatus is provided which is not overly complex in structure, which reduces the damage to chip parts, and which operates well even if its chip discharge passage is clogged or overflows. The apparatus has a part-holding chamber for accomm... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5996768 | Quick change drum A quick change drum for receiving and orienting pellet-like items in a pellet marking machine is disclosed. The quick change drum comprises a central shaft with two end plates perpendicularly attached to the ends of the shaft in parallel spaced apart rela... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5897289 | Tube alignment and delivery apparatus An apparatus for alignment and delivery of tubing for use in manufacture and assembly of heat exchangers used for controlling temperature conditions. The apparatus includes a drum into which bulk tubes are loaded. The drum aligns and deposits the tubes on... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5893448 | Adapter feeding apparatus An adapter feeding apparatus which is capable of feeding adapters (1) in a predetermined position to the next process step at a stable and constant pace is disclosed. The adapter feeding apparatus includes a hopper portion for receiving the adapters (1), ... | 04/13/1999 |
| 4653627 | Reverse vending machine A reverse vending machine provides for the separation, counting and crushing of beverage containers of a predetermined size range and composition. The machine includes an in-feed station for receiving multiple, disarrayed containers, an on-load station, a... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4537300 | Apparatus for selecting and supplying capsules or like round articles of deformable material to the feed hopper of machines for handling these articles The apparatus comprises a support base for a hopper designed to receive articles, a drum supported in a rotatable manner about a horizontal axis by the base, the interior of this drum communicating with the hopper, and an elevator having conveyor elements... | 08/27/1985 |
| 4379504 | Article feeding device The feeding device comprises a horizontal circular singling disc, which rotates continuously or intermittently and has a peripheral crown of recesses acting as article receiving pockets. The surface of the singling disc is subdivided into a first, larger ... | 04/12/1983 |
| 4274531 | Apparatus for orienting oblong articles The device of this invention comprises a drum 11 rotatably mounted on a mounting frame 10. The device is designed to receive articles to be sorted from a controlled feed conveyor 12. The rotating drum 11, through its internal structure including lift fins... | 06/23/1981 |
| 4078650 | Rotatable drum for feeding small parts Threaded fasteners in a hopper are picked up by buckets spaced angularly within a rotatable, open sided drum and are dumped out of the buckets at a position above the hopper. Each bucket is generally L-shaped and is formed by two elements, one of the elem... | 03/14/1978 |
