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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 |
| 7946436 | Beverage container with threaded plastic drinking sleeve A molded plastic drinking sleeve for push-on assembly to a neck portion of a container according to a typical embodiment includes an annular body formed by an annular sidewall having a uniform taper from a first open end to an opposite second open end, the annular s... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7770745 | Wide mouth jar with integral scraper A one-piece plastic container includes a body defining a longitudinal axis. The body includes an upper portion, a sidewall portion and a base portion. The upper portion defines an opening into the container. The sidewall portion may be integrally formed with and ext... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7387825 | Preform for small flat container and small flat container To solve the limit of wall-thickness adjustment of a preform for a small flat container by a flat core by forming the outer side of a step-up-formed large-wall-thickness shell part with reducing wall thickness. A preform 1 for a small flat container whose ins... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7364045 | Blow molded wide mouth pet container and method of manufacture A method of making a wide mouth, blow molded PET plastic container having an externally threaded neck, the diameter and wall thickness of the neck and threads have a critical relationship to the diameter and wall thickness of the preform used to blow the intermediat... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7303796 | Preform assembly, container assembly and method of manufacture A finish on a hollow plastic preform or container includes a neck that is at least partially of crystallizable polymer construction and is at least partially crystallized, and a finish ring externally secured over the neck. The neck preferably is of molded plastic c... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7303087 | Pressurized plastic bottle with reinforced neck and shoulder for dispensing an aerosol A pressure resistant plastic bottle for containing and dispensing an aerosol composition. The plastic bottle is designed to reduce deformation by a local reinforcement to the neck and shoulder regions. The reinforcement preferably comprises the provision of a wall t... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7207451 | Molded container with beaded neck A container having a neck that includes an upper sidewall defining an opening, a lower sidewall and a flange radially extending from the neck between said upper and said lower sidewall. Beads are disposed around an outer circumference of the neck on the flange at th... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7186241 | Syringe with needle penetrable and laser resealable stopper A syringe and a reconstitution syringe are provided for the delivery of controlled doses of any of numerous different sterile substances, such as vaccines, medicaments, pharmaceutical preparations, cosmetics, and food products. A plunger of the syringe defines a res... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7178687 | Moldable plastic container with hourglass profile A molded plastic container with a sidewall having a general hourglass configuration. The container structure includes an upper rim, a bottom and a sidewall that extends between the upper rim and the bottom. The sidewall includes a lower frustum section, a narrow mid... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7100646 | Sealed containers and methods of making and filling same Disclosed is a uniquely configured medicament vial assembly which includes a storage vial, a stopper member and a securing ring. The vial assembly is configured to improve healthcare worker safety by providing a shielded gripping location to aid in the reduction of ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7097056 | Neck of synthetic resin bottle The gas-venting groove or grooves are formed, while leaving a part of the thread ridge up to a certain height, as the vertical degassing paths in the thread ridge carved on the outer surface of the round neck wall and the entire neck is whitened by the thermal cryst... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7036671 | Container having damage-resistant finish ring A container having a damage-resistant finish ring and an opening sealable by a closure member that is removable by a hook-type opener is disclosed. The damage-resistant finish ring has a locking ring with a convex outer surface. ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7028857 | Plastic water bottle and apparatus and method to convey the bottle and prevent bottle rotation A plastic container for beverages to replace a container having a round flange with a round flange diameter and which is adapted to be conveyed by air along a track with inwardly extending track rails spaced from one another a set distance. The plastic container rep... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6997336 | Plastic cafare A plastic carafe includes a body portion having an enclosed base defined by a plurality of upstanding posts and a plurality of panels separating the posts from one another. The carafe further includes a neck portion having a blown finish at the top of the carafe tha... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6977104 | Container preform assembly and method of manufacture A preform assembly for blow molding a container includes a molded plastic preform having a body and a neck with an external surface. At least one circumferential channel is molded into the external surface of the preform neck for removing the preform from the formin... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6971530 | Plastic container having stepped neck finish The improved plastic container and preform is light weight and includes a base, a cylindrical sidewall projecting upwardly from the base, and a neck finish projecting upwardly from the sidewall and having an opening to the inside of the container. The neck finish in... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6959830 | Metal container with thread A metal container with thread capable of preventing such a defect that the strength of a lower end of a mouth part and an upper end of a shoulder part of a container main body is non-resistant to a pressing force in radial and axial directions, and a part of the con... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6952988 | Method and apparatus for trimming containers Method and apparatus for trimming a container having an open end wherein the container is held during the trimming operation, including a multi-station assembly for holding the container to be trimmed stationary during trimming, ejecting the trimmed portion and ejec... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6948630 | Self-draining container neck and closure A self-draining container neck and closure comprising a container neck having an upper sidewall portion and a lower sidewall portion, the upper sidewall portion being inset from the lower sidewall portion. The container neck also includes a tamper indicating bead ha... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6939498 | Method of making crystallized bottlenecks A method for making a crystallized bottleneck of a polyester beer bottle is provided. The bottleneck has no machined screw threads and a length of 0.5-35 mm. To manufacture the crystallized bottleneck, an uncrystallized blank of the bottle is placed in an air-condit... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6929139 | Plastic container with sidewall construction A blow molded plastic container having a circular base, a cylindrical sidewall extending upwardly from the base and a neck finish projecting upwardly from the sidewall. The sidewall includes a plurality of spaced apart, continuous, circumferential grooves extending ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6752284 | Synthetic resin container with thin wall A container has a body which comprises front and rear walls, and the side walls. Each of the front and rear walls has an elliptic cross section, and is provided with a lateral recess. Each of the side walls is a vertical plane which intersects the elliptic cross sec... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6722531 | Pouring mouth member for container A pouring mouth member for a container includes an intermediate resin layer having barrier property and a fold-back portion is formed on at least one end portion of the intermediate resin layer having barrier property. Further, due to an inner layer resin and/or an ... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6672468 | Universal container for chemical transportation A plastic bottle is disclosed, which comprises a cylindrical sidewall having a predetermined thickness, an upper mouth-forming portion, a neck extending from this mouth-forming portion, a dome-shaped portion between the neck and one axial end of the cylin... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6648157 | Reinforced plastic neck finish A plastic hot fill container including a container body, which is integrally formed as one piece with a flange, the flange having a generally cylindrical outer facing wall surface onto which are formed a plurality of typically mutually spaced threading pr... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6632492 | Process and device for shaping hollow glass object A process of shaping a hollow glass object, including the steps of roughing out molten glass into a rough mold with a collar and a shoulder, transferring the rough mold prepared in the roughing out step to a finishing mold, and partially driving the colla... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6413467 | Relating to containers A container is made in two stages from material such as thermoplastics that is deformable when heated. In the first stage a preform (1) is injection moulded, the mould parts easily releasing a tubular body (2) with a closed end and an outwardly projecting... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6413468 | Relating to Containers A container is made in two stages from thermoplastics material. In the first stage a preform (1) is injection molded, the mold parts easily releasing a tubular body (2) with a closed end and an outwardly projecting rim (3) at the open end. In the second s... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6237791 | Wide mouth hot fill container A method of forming a wide mouth blow molded thermoplastic container comprising the steps of i) stretch blow molding from a preform, an intermediate article defining the container with the mouth being threaded and/or flanged, the mouth terminating in an a... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6105800 | Blown plastic containers with threads A blown plastic container that includes a hollow plastic body, an integral blow-molded neck and an integral blow-molded finish with a radially outwardly extending blow-molded thread or bead for retaining a closure on the finish. Reinforcement is provided ... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6062408 | Wide mouth hot fill container A method of forming a wide mouth blow molded thermoplastic container comprising the steps of i) stretch blow molding from a preform, an intermediate article defining the container with the mouth being threaded and/or flanged, the mouth terminating in an a... | 05/16/2000 |
| 5995783 | Receptacle for particulate matter A receptacle for particulate matter to be supplied to an apparatus. The receptacle includes a container, adapted to store particulate matter. The container has an opening defined therein. A substantially rigid, relatively nondeformable flange has a portio... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5918753 | Container for automotive fluids A lightweight blow-molded plastic container providing enhanced top loading capability. The container is rectangular in elevation and plan, and has four vertically extending post corners at the juncture of front, back and side walls. The front and back wal... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5908124 | One piece blow molded plastic squeeze tube with an integral twist off closure A plastic tube with an integral finish and a twist off tab are blow molded. The twist off tab is connected to the finish of the tube by an annular groove forming a line of weakness. The tab is formed by the closing of mold halves about an extruded parison... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5908127 | Load bearing polymeric container A load bearing container is provided which is made from a non-glass material and yet possesses the top load column strength of a glass container or bottle. The container includes a diagonally oriented molded ring profile composed of alternatingly outwardl... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5887739 | Ovalization and crush resistant container A container dome with arch-like structures in elevation and polygon-shaped structures in plan. The arch-like structures are provided by pairs of chordal stiffening facets disposed in an endwise adjacent array extending transversely about the periphery of ... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5881907 | Sealing cap with metal insert for sheet metal containers for corrosive liquids The top (2) of a sheet metal container (1) for the transportation and storage of liquids has a central fill opening (3) which is edged by a neck (5) which is perpendicular to the top surface (4) of the container. A plastic or metal ring (6) with an extern... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5803291 | Method and arrangement for positioning a container or container blank in a predetermined angular orientation on a carrier mandrel A thermoplastic container or container blank having a neck (1) with a cylindrical inner wall is positioned in a predetermined angular orientation on a carrier mandrel (10) inside the neck (1), the mandrel (10) having a mandrel body (11) and a retaining me... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5678711 | Preform and hot-fill blow-molded container having reinforced finish A reinforced finish is on a blow-molded container. An insert is permanently attached on the finish of a preform from which the container is blown, or directly on the finish of the blow-molded container. The insert is ring-shaped, forms a portion of the to... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5647495 | Heat-resistant construction of a neck of a synthetic resin container A container, which may be injection molded in a single mold, includes a main body and a hollow cylindrical neck. The neck extends along a main axis and has a proximate end connected to the main body and an open distal end. The neck includes a generally cy... | 07/15/1997 |
