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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 |
| 7992746 | Method and apparatus for removing, inserting and securing receptacles in a receptacle tray A method and apparatus for controlling removal of one or more receptacles from a receptacle tray are described herein, in which a removal indicator indicates which of the one or more receptacles to remove. Thereafter, the indicated one or more receptacles may be man... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7428806 | Semi-automatic medicine packaging machine with cassette lock unit Disclosed is a semi-automatic medicine packaging machine with cassette lock unit that improves packaging efficiency and speed by supplying an automatic supply unit and prevents an unauthorized person from supplement and outflow of tablets by fixing tablet cassettes ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7383099 | Apparatus for vending lottery tickets A vending machine for lottery tickets includes an exterior housing for access by a purchasing customer and a secure interior within which is mounted a plurality of dispensing containers to dispense the one or more tickets as selected by the purchasing customer. A pl... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7264140 | System and method for dispensing pharmaceutical samples A system and method for dispensing pharmaceutical samples is provided. The system comprises a dispenser base, a lid, and a dispensing portion. The dispensing portion further comprises a window, finger cutouts, and a front section of a spring plate. The front section... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7191933 | Automatic fare paying device for vehicles and method A compact fare paying device has a housing for receiving a monetary member and at least one verifier unit in the housing for determining the authenticity of the monetary member. A storage device such as a safe can receive the monetary member or a return device can r... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7146246 | Dispensing device A dispenser has an upper loading chamber (38), a dispensing chamber (40) located beneath the loading chamber, first and second openable covers (24, 34) for the loading chamber (38) and a dispensing chamber (40) and a gate means ( | 12/05/2006 |
| 7032776 | Vending machine bucket drive control The disclosed invention is a dispensing apparatus and method for dispensing product from a vending machine. The invention employs a motor for bi-directionally rotating a dispenser bucket between two bumpers which physically obstruct and limit the rotational travel, ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6945427 | Self-learning depth logic for multi-depth vendor control The disclosed invention is a dispensing apparatus and method for dispensing product from a vending machine. The invention employs a product vend detector to sense when products are dispensed. A controller compares the occurrences of products actually dispensed to th... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6850815 | Programmed loading of dispenser with supply of dispensable objects Dispensable objects are loaded into a portable case for transport to a dispensing site by connecting a reload controller with a case to be reloaded. Latchable and unlatchable object retainers arrayed in the case are relatched, and the reload controller is activated ... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6467603 | Snack dispenser A snack dispenser consists of a series of tiers stacked to resemble a wedding cake. Each tier includes a trough divided into slots. A snack may be placed into each slot. The front of each slot is transparent. The troughs or trays are mounted on a rotatabl... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6409045 | Vending machine for bottles A vending machine for vending a plurality of bottles each of which are supported in an upright position only at a top portion of each of the bottles include a planar dispensing rack having a plurality of elongated slots therein for storing and dispensing ... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6302293 | Vertical stack retainer for vending machines The apparatus and method for retaining a vertical stack or stacks of vendable items in a vending machine includes a column having sidewalls and a front and back. The back is substantially blocked to retain vendable items vertically at the back of the colu... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6237806 | Device to distribute photographic material Device to distribute photographic material, such as photographs, films, negatives, slides, etc., contained in envelopes or wrappers (18), the device comprising structure (12, 13) to interface with and recognise the client accessible from outside and cell-... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6234345 | Transportation vending machine A transportation vending machine, and more generally a vending machine and cooling dispenser especially suited to environments in which there is limited space available. A serpentine path in the dispenser is formed from two-pieces of rotary-molded plastic... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6050447 | Bulk vending machine system with mechanically operated electrically actuated locking and control function An electronically actuated and monitorable bulk vending machine assembly for electronically actuated vending from a select one of a plurality of rack mounted of bulk vending including at least one electrically lockable, crank actuated vending machine link... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6029972 | Toothed wheel operated adjusting device for card stacking machines A toothed wheel operated adjusting device for card stacking machines, in particular an adjusting device adapted for telephone cards and the like, including a receiving body, a conveyance device, and a press plate. The receiving body has a main frame and a... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5725081 | Digital deposit and dispensing safe A combination money deposit and dispensing safe, includes a generally box-like housing having a front door, and back and side walls forming a chamber defining a safe for securing money, a bill receiving apparatus mounted in the front door of the safe for ... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5638985 | Vending apparatus and method A vending machine for dispensing articles such as scrub garments. The machine defines plural rows of slots for receiving articles, with the rows vertically stacked so that slots in each row form vertical columns with slots on adjacent rows. A separate loc... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5632408 | Apparatus for securing and dispensing currency A safe box is provided with currency containers and a plurality of separate currency chutes with time delay access for security. Manually operated apparatus is provided for aligning and releasing containers into the chutes as well as manually operated dra... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5460294 | Single dose pharmaceutical dispenser subassembly A subassembly for use in a computerized medicine dispensing station is disclosed. The station has a cabinet for housing openable drawers in stacked arrangement containing dispensable pharmaceutical items. The subassembly includes a drawer having a base pl... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5398799 | Method and apparatus for converting single price vending machines to multiple price vending machines A method and apparatus for carrying out the conversion of purely electromechanical can and bottle vending machines to microprocessor controlled can and bottle vending machines. The present invention provides a method and apparatus for carrying out such a ... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5392951 | Drawer operating system A mechanical system opens a selected drawer in a multiple-drawer cabinet. The drawers are arranged in rows and columns. A selected drawer is unlatched by moving a rod which has protruding fingers, only one of which is positioned to engage a latch in a col... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5225825 | Electronic interlock for storage assemblies An electronic interlock for locking a file cabinet (10, 100) and for limiting the number of drawers (14, 114) to be accessed at any given time. An input keyboard (20, 120) receives an input code to be compared with a prestored access code. If the codes do... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5096090 | Automatic distribution machine An automatic distribution machine includes a plurality of bin modules, each bin module being adapted to dispense packages onto a conveyor belt or the like. The bin modules are removable and interchangeable, thereby facilitating replacement if one fails. A... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5077890 | 0.3 unimodule offline loading trolley and method of using A method of preparing electronic components for insertion into printed circuit boards by means of an automatic insertion machine which has an attached set of component retaining and dispensing magazines, comprising the steps of loading another set of maga... | 01/07/1992 |
| 4967928 | Inventory control including individual patient listing and medical chart record for medication cart A medicine cart is set forth and a means and method of dispensing medicines including narcotics on nurse rounds is disclosed. The cart includes a CPU with memory and various input devices. The cart has a locked section to secure narcotics. As nurse rounds... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4809879 | Method and apparatus for dispensing items Method and apparatus for dispensing items are disclosed. A preferred dispenser (20) according to the invention includes a vend unit (24) suitable for placement in a small (e.g., four cubic feet) refrigerator (22). The vend unit (24) is preferably an all-m... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4702392 | Vending machine A vending machine for vending flat packages is disclosed which includes vend assemblies which are reciprocal from a rearward position to a forward, vend position. The vending machine is equipped with a rotary coin accepting assembly including a handle, a ... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4696413 | Vending system and method for preventing multiple product vends System and method for preventing multiple vends in which a customer gets more than one product for the price of one. The invention is applicable to vending machines having separate vend motors for delivering different products, with product selection swit... | 09/29/1987 |
| 4577780 | Article-dispensing assembly for a vending machine An article-dispensing assembly including a door movably mounted on a plate for opening and closing an opening provided in the plate, the door including a shelf extending inwardly of the opening and providing a bin for holding an article to be dispensed. A... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4461377 | Coin operated vending stack A multi-compartment vending stack body (20) has sides engaging a series of roller assemblies (32) within a dovetail slot allowing movement in a vertical direction. A number of doors (42) are arranged in columns, each door having a spreader (46) rotatably ... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4376478 | Control device for a vending machine including system for confirming vendibility of selected articles A vending control system for sequentially carrying out a first and second operation in order to insure that the selected article is in fact vendible and that the correct amount of change is provided. During the first operation, the amount of deposited coi... | 03/15/1983 |
| 4336892 | Article dispensing apparatus A vendor for packs of cigarettes comprising a cabinet having a window at the front, a plurality of dispensers in the cabinet for the packs, each adapted to hold a plurality of packs of one brand in a row extending in rear-to-front direction in the cabinet... | 06/29/1982 |
| 4282987 | Beverage dispensing and metering apparatus A beverage dispensing and metering apparatus adapted to be mounted in a stationary cabinet structure or a portable suitcase-type housing, including an electrically driven liquid pump and push-button switch for each liquid or beverage to be dispensed. The ... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4250905 | Coin dispensing machine A coin dispensing machine capable of selectively dispensing a coin of a predetermined denomination from among coins of various denominations stored in a plurality of coin tubes. Coins placed at the bottom of the respective coin tubes (i.e. the lowermost c... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4234070 | Vending control apparatus Control apparatus for use in a vending machine having actuators individually controlled for dispensing customer selected products. The control apparatus generally includes a credit indicating system, a price indicating system, a calculating section for co... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4201283 | Pilferage protection for satellite vending machine having dual pricing capability A satellite vending machine having a tier of manually operated ejectors for dispensing a selection of packaged articles from storage magazines therein to expand the capacity of a parent vending machine is installed on top of the parent and utilizes the co... | 05/06/1980 |
| 4168784 | Flat package vending machine An adjustable, multi-product vending machine is disclosed which is capable of dispensing a large number of products in a relatively small space using a limited number of coin slides. The device is activated by one or more coin slides which may be of the m... | 09/25/1979 |
| 4131213 | Magazine vending machine A magazine vending machine which is operable solely by manually activated lever mechanisms and without any electric devices. The machine is further characterized in that sample magazines displayed at a show-window are utilizable for sale by lever mechanis... | 12/26/1978 |
| 4111332 | Article counting device A small-article receiving hopper is mounted on the upper surface of an inclined support and is rotated by connection with the drive shaft of a motor projecting through the support. The disk-like bottom of the hopper is undercut to form a circumferential s... | 09/05/1978 |
