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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 |
| 7424843 | Wrapping paper storage device and dispenser A wrapping paper storage device and dispenser supports a sheet of wrapping paper between the top wall of the dispenser and a flap member. This support continues throughout the cutting operation, so that curling, wrinkling or edge deformation of the wrapping paper is... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7370782 | Tape dispenser The inventive tape dispenser includes a cover and a base. The cover includes a forward section, a saddle, a rounded back section, and first and second sidewalls extending downwardly from the forward section and saddle. The forward section of the cover includes a fir... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7201201 | Painter's tape dispenser with cutter The painter's tape dispenser with cutter has a base, a rotatable spindle for receiving a roll of tape, and a cutter mounted on the base, which is ergonomically dimensioned for a comfortable fit on the user's forearm. The base is generally triangular in shape, with a... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7093640 | Tape dispenser having a retaining and application area A tape dispenser having a frame, a cutter blade and a non-rotatable pressure pad is disclosed. The dispenser holds a roll of adhesive tape therein. The cutter blade and pressure pad are secured together and are snap-fitted into the frame so that the blade extends a ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7077185 | Tape dispenser A hand held tape dispenser for applying adhesive tape to a surface. The dispenser includes a housing for holding and dispensing a roll of tape and has a tape dispensing opening therein. A plurality of rollers are within the housing, the outer surfaces of which coact... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7021356 | Apparatus for dispensing a roll of material and method of using the same The present invention provides an apparatus for dispensing a roll of material such as a pressure sensitive adhesive tape. The apparatus includes an enclosable housing having a roll holding piece, a cover piece, and a hinge assembly for joining the roll holding piece... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7014081 | Device for drawing off and cutting a tape from a supply roll A device for drawing off and cutting a tape from a supply roll, a tubular core piece of the roll rotatably accommodating a bearing and guiding bracket which is formed from an elastically deformable curved piece and, at its free end, the curved bracket accommodating ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6971431 | Tape dispenser A tape dispenser for applying adhesive tape to a substrate surface. The dispenser includes an exterior application surface with an opening therein. A plurality of rotatable cylindrical rollers are mounted within the housing, wherein the surfaces of the rollers coact... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6923358 | Tape dispenser with cutter shield A tape dispenser has a housing with a cutting end to which a blade is connected. The blade has a cutting edge extending outwardly beyond the cutting end of the housing. A shield is positioned adjacent the cutting edge of the blade to reduce the exposure of the cutti... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6913060 | Adhesive tape dispenser An adhesive tape dispenser having an improved mechanism for gripping the device while dispensing tape. The dispenser has spaced apart side walls and an upper wall connected thereto. The upper wall has a leading edge that is provided with a blade for cutting the adhe... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6848490 | Double-sided adhesive tape dispenser A double-sided adhesive tape dispenser. The dispenser includes a main frame for mounting a rotatable adhesive tape roll thereon, a guide roller rotatably mounted on the main frame, and a driven roller rotatably mounted on the main frame. The driven roller is paralle... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6802354 | Hand-held device for the application of a total tape onto a substrate A hand-held device for applying correction tape on an application surface having at most only a supply spool for a stock of the correction tape. An applicator element, which can be a roller, applies the correction tape in its entirety on the application surface. No ... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6799623 | Adhesive tape cutter An adhesive tape cutter includes a control mechanism, an operation mechanism located on the control mechanism and a dispensing mechanism connecting to the control mechanism and located above the operation mechanism. The control mechanism has a protective mechanism, ... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6789594 | Tape dispenser with a hidden blade A tape dispenser with a hidden blade includes a body, a press plate provided at a front side of the body and possible to be pressed to move rearward elastically to push down a blade fixed on a blade base to force the blade to protrude out of the body a little for cu... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6786376 | Rolled sheet material dispenser with protected sheet cutting means A dispenser from which sheet material may be dispensed from a supply of the sheet material carried on the dispenser. The dispenser has a frame on which the roll of sheet material is journaled for rotation about its axis. An elongate blade fixed to the frame has a sh... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6763988 | Movable air-permeable-tape dispenser A movable air-permeable-tape dispenser. The dispenser includes a hollow cylindrical body provided with an axial long opening. A slide channel is parallelly adjacent to a first longitudinal edge of the long opening, and a stepped portion is parallelly adjacent to a s... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6719180 | Hand held tape dispenser A tape dispenser for mailing tape has planar side walls, a front portion having a cover and a cutter member, and a rear portion including hub portions with at least an arcuate portion in the top region so that a roll of mailing tape may be rotatably mounted in the t... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6705374 | Adhesive-tape cutting device of an adhesive-tape holder An adhesive-tape cutting device of an adhesive-tape holder has a position-limiting device provided between the vertical short side of a slide base and the push plate portion of a press plate. The position-limiting device is composed of two position-limiting holes bo... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6695190 | Tape dispensing device A tape dispenser for receiving a roll of tape and dispensing tape including a frame having a back end and a front end, a spool carried by the frame intermediate the back end and the front end, a retaining arm coupled to the back end of the frame and biase... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6681830 | Hand-held adhesive tape dispenser A hand-held adhesive tape dispenser is in the form of a partial shell which has a support face and a peripheral wall to form an open face housing. A spool of adhesive tape is mounted to the support face through the use of mounting structure on the shell w... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6669070 | Tape dispenser An adhesive tape dispenser comprises a dispensing body and a blade. The dispensing body is of one-piece injection molded plastic construction and has a front portion for the mounting of the blade, two roll transport portions for rotatably fitting a roll o... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6662844 | Adhesive tape dispenser with anti-reverse roll rotation capability An adhesive tape dispenser is comprised of a dispensing body that provides for the loading of a roll of tape at its rear portion and a blade mounted on the dispensing body. A roller, a guide wheel, and a pawl are respectively pivotally mounted in the disp... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6622900 | Foil dispensing device A foil dispensing device for cutting foil in selected lengths for using the foil for hair highlighting purposes. The foil dispensing device includes a housing having a bottom wall, a back wall, a front wall, and a pair of side walls. The foil is positione... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6543511 | Tape dispenser A dispenser is provided for adhesive tape. The dispenser includes a tape roll chamber with a hub having an axis about which a roll of tape may rotate. A tape dispensing channel extends from the tape roll chamber. The tape dispensing channel is configured ... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6491082 | Safety for blade of tape dispenser A safety for blade of tape dispenser includes a fixing seat provided above a tape roller of the tape dispenser. The fixing seat defines an inner space in which a blade of the tape dispenser is fixedly mounted and a shield plate is disposed above the blade... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6364188 | Tape dispenser A tape dispenser comprising a hub unit and a housing that can be removed from the hub unit to dispense tape. The hub unit comprises a hub for holding a roll of tape, and two flanges, one on each of the opposite ends of the hub. One of the flanges optional... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6296033 | Blade protector for tape applicators and dispensers A tape applicator includes a frame. A blade is affixed to the frame. A guard is mounted on the frame and extends from the frame beyond the edge of the blade. The guard is deflected as the tape is drawn across the blade.... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6173876 | Vulcanized fiber sheet having a serrated cutting edge, a carton having said sheet adhered thereto, and a method of adhesion thereof The present invention is a sheet having a serrated cutting edge attached to a carton case containing a roll of a cooking sheet such as a synthetic resin film, paper sheet and metallic foil, the sheet having a serrated cutting edge used for cutting the coo... | 01/16/2001 |
| 5921450 | Tape dispenser A tape dispenser for dispensing adhesive tape which includes a mechanism for preventing roll back of tape on the roll after dispensing thereon through the use of a roller biased or configured to rotate in one direction or otherwise to prevent the tape bei... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5861080 | Tape dispenser An improved tape dispenser and method of use is capable of applying tape to a substrate with only one hand of the user, and comprises a housing having a pair of parallel spaced-apart resilient side walls which can be spread apart to receive a spool of tap... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5788807 | Tape stripper The present invention relates to a tape dispenser, preferably for large rolls of tape. It is characterized in that it comprises a rectangular platform and two legs, manufactured in one piece and designed to straddle the roll of tape. An opening is arrange... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5765740 | Suture-material-dispenser system for suture material A suture-material-dispenser system for a supply of dry or wet suture material includes the supply of such material and a housing which defines a cavity for containing the supply. The housing includes a top region that has an opening formed in it, and a bo... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5649659 | Dispensing means A credit card size dispenser (10) is provided which is particularly suited for dispensing dental floss. The dispenser (10) includes a thin rectangular housing (11) which supports a spool of floss (12) wound in an oval form to provide an elongated open cen... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5634580 | Clip-on tape dispenser for reeled tape A clip-on tape dispenser for reeled tape comprises, in integral configuration, a middle section, at least portions of which are designed to ride on the outermost turn of the reeled tape, and two flank sections located on either side of the middle section ... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5595626 | Tape dispenser A tape dispenser comprises a body having a dispensing end for dispensing a tape and a size capable of being gripped by a hand of a user. A holding member is disposed in the main body and supports a roll of the tape to permit the roll of tape to undergo di... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5551646 | Ribbon curling and ribbon splitting device A ribbon curling device (13,110) for attachment to a spool (11,116) of gift wrapping ribbon is engageable on or around the spool such that the spool may rotate relative to the device in use. The device defines a ribbon exit pathway for guiding the ribbon ... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5381942 | Adhesive tape dispenser An improved adhesive tape dispenser is provided with a holding piece capable of being acted on by a spring to hold the adhesive tape securely to the surface of a rolling wheel so as to permit a user of the dispenser to locate easily the end of the adhesiv... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5370916 | Tape dispensing system The invention provides a longitudinally extending adhesive tape product adapted to be cut off into a plurality of tape segments by use of a transverse cutting edge. The product comprises a longitudinally extending tape wound into a roll, the tape having a... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5363997 | Tape dispensing device A one-piece, core mounted tape dispensing and cutting device wherein the free end of the tape is restrained against being withdrawn onto the roll of tape. The cutter preferably includes a blade which is elevated above the plane of the tape. The tape is wi... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5221033 | Method and apparatus for anti-contamination dispensing of cut-separable medical devices A dispenser/separator for contamination-free dispensing of a supply of cut-separable medical devices is disclosed which includes anti-contamination structure for enclosing the supply. The anti-contamination structure includes an exit port for allowing the... | 06/22/1993 |
