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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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| 4697692 | Device for advancing cops to a cyclically stepwise advancing cop conveyor A device for individually and sucessively advancing cops from a cop-producing machine in an orderly manner via conveyor belts to a cyclically stepwise advanceable cop conveyor having take-up mandrels thereon, comprising respective substantially vertical l... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4538492 | Bean cutter An inclined chute is provided for receiving side-by-side transversely extending elongated beans thereon for gravity lateral feeding of the beans downwardly along the chute. A rotary shaft is disposed outward of and below the lower end of the chute and a p... | 09/03/1985 |
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| 3973667 | Apparatus for vertically transporting eggs or like articles The invention relates to an apparatus for vertically transporting eggs or like articles comprising a plurality of vertically movable pairs of basket halves arranged side by side, the halves of each pair in the lowest position can rotate about horizontal s... | 08/10/1976 |
| 3972407 | Transfer mechanism for round parts A transfer mechanism for transferring a round part such as a drill from a first station to a second station with intermediate accumulating storage wherein a horizontally reciprocating slide has a pair of horizontally displaced transverse V-shaped grooves.... | 08/03/1976 |
