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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 |
| 8042723 | Method of repair Provided is a method of repair which method is capable of holding a molten brazing material at the bonding portion when a component is bonded with a brazing material to an inclined or to a curved surface. The method of repair repairs by brazing a repair portion in w... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7419082 | Friction welding process A friction welding process providing a workpiece having a weld surface, and a second workpiece having a weld surface. The workpieces being welded together at respective weld surfaces. Oscillatory motion is affected to the workpieces such that one weld surface moves ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7368035 | Method for brazing and adhesive bonding An improved method for joining together the edge portions of first and second panels includes applying a heat curable adhesive along the edge portion of the first panel and then abutting the edge portion of the second panel with the edge portion of the first panel s... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7293688 | Gold/nickel/copper/aluminum/silver brazing alloys for brazing WC-Co to titanium alloys A brazing material including about 2 to about 30 percent by weight gold, about 4 to about 14 percent by weight nickel, about 25 to about 65 percent by weight copper, about 1 to about 3 percent by weight aluminum and about 20 to about 55 percent by weight silver.... | 11/13/2007 |
| 6976309 | Vehicle underbody and method of forming thereof An underbody for a vehicle includes a floorpan defining a part of an assembly, a rocker slidably engaged with the floorpan, and a rail slidably engaged with the floorpan. The assembly is formed as a unit about a first and a second bend axis. ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6956187 | Steel plate splicing facility utilizing shear joining A steel plate splicing facility includes, a steel plate heating apparatus for retrieving and heating a preceding steel plate and a following steel plate, and a shear-joining apparatus for clamping a tail end portion of the preceding steel plate and a leading end por... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6955287 | Method of bonding metal plates, apparatus therefor and hot strip mill An upper shearing blade equipped with a protrusion of a triangle-columnar shape and a lower shearing blade equipped with a protrusion of the same shape are applied onto the overlapped portion of metal plates to be bonded, and then pressed into the metal plates in an... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6948649 | Method of producing steel pipes, and welded pipes The high yield ratio problem intrinsic in high-strength steel pipes is solved and a method of producing a steel pipe, while securing the pipe roundness is provided. A steel pipe produced from a steel plate by forming and welding is subjected to 0.3 to 1.2% of expans... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6911632 | Method for controlling the position of a foil strip edges A method for controlling the edges (7, 7′) of a foil strip guided in a shaping funnel of a device producing tubular bodies from the foil strip by an overlapping weld seam using a guide wedge, the strip being then welded. According to the invention, after we... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6880742 | Separating seam welding device Shown is a device and a process for the simultaneous separating and welding of foils or foil tubes (5) where the device comprises at least one welding terminal (2) and an opposing terminal (3), | 04/19/2005 |
| 6837419 | Recuperator for use with turbine/turbo-alternator An annular recuperator for use with an annular combustor. The annular recuperator includes a frame and an enclosure provided about its frame that defines a recuperator chamber. A plurality of involute shaped sealed and open recuperators are received in the recuperat... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6704981 | Superplastic forming method A method of forming sheets of superplastically formable material into a three dimensional article, the sheets being joined together along diffusion bonds to form discrete cells, at least one gas path being provided through the bond between cells. The sheets are heat... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6655575 | Superplastic forming of micro components A method for forming a miniaturized shaped component. Bulk superplastic material is contacted with a flat rotating surface of a rotating tool to frictionally heat the bulk superplastic material with the bulk superplastic material positioned between the fl... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6635843 | Strip connecting apparatus and method therefore To provide a strip connecting apparatus and a method therefor which are less costly, short in welding time and high in welding quality. A strip connecting apparatus is provided with: a surface coating removing device for removing insulative surface coatin... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6589671 | Method for joining a cast part and a case-hardened steel part and component manufactured according to said method A method for joining a first part to a second part wherein the first part comprises machine cast iron and the second part comprises case-hardened steel comprises abrading a surface on each of the parts which are to be welded together with a groove, fittin... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6588648 | Method and device for transferring a hollow-profile blank During manufacture of certain hollow profiles suitable for use in car body construction the welded profiles are subjected to a further deformation process, namely hydroforming. At present the corresponding welding machines are charged manually. The invent... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6491209 | Continuous band manufacture A band saw strip manipulator is arranged to receive a toothed metal strip for welding from a cut to length machine. The strip is moved into the band saw strip manipulator by powered rollers. The strip extends between a first edge detector at one side of t... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6464124 | Electrically conductive elevation shaping tool The present invention relates to a solder ball shaping tool and a method for using the tool. In a substrate there is formed a series of depressions. The tool is pressed onto a ball grid array and the ball grid array is realigned either with simple pressur... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6460757 | Apparatus and method for forming slotted wire screens An apparatus and method for forming slotted wire screens is provided. According to one embodiment, the method involves the steps of (1) providing support ring material; (2) positioning a wire on the support ring material; (3) joining the wire and the supp... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6419806 | Insert target assembly and method of making same Method of forming a two-piece hollow cathode sputter target assembly and the assembly formed thereby. The sputter target assembly includes an outer shell having a substantially cylindrical side wall and is composed of a relatively low purity metallic mate... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6412684 | Protective lining for pressure equipment which can be used in processes for the synthesis of urea The present invention relates to a new type of lining with two layers, one of which, obtained by welding deposit, can be used for the protection of internal surfaces of chemical equipment capable of abide pressures lower than 100 MPa, in processes for the... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6347901 | Solder interconnect techniques A method and article of fabrication is described featuring a solder layer having a serpentine, interrupted, or interdigitated boundary. The non-planar design of the boundary layer increases the fatigue life of the solder joint by limiting the damage cause... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6308392 | Brittle wire manufacturing method and apparatus A method for making wire of brittle alloys including coating rods of the brittle alloy with refractory fluoride and organic polymer, loading the coated rods into a container, filling the container with metallic powder, sealing the container, heating the f... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6299054 | Device and method for precision macular irradiator A device for precision X-irradiation of the macular region of the retina of a patient's eye has a mounting plate mounted to a linear accelerator collimator. A housing extends from the mounting plate, and a secondary collimator is positioned in the housing... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6279812 | Method for producing rotational-symmetrical articles of sheet metal with double curved surface and varying thickness of material A method for producing rotational-symmetrical sheet metal articles with double-curved shape and varying thickness, particularly rocket nozzles, in which a number of sheet metal part-blanks in flat condition are cut to partially circular ring-like shape, w... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6250536 | Method for manufacturing electrode wire for electrical discharge machining apparatus The invention relates to a method for manufacturing an electrode wire for an electrical discharge machining apparatus, which is composed of a core wire formed of Cu or Cu-alloy and a covering layer formed of brass. A brass tape is longitudinally applied a... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6234373 | Electrically conductive elevation shaping tool The present invention relates to a solder ball shaping tool and a method for using the tool. In a substrate there is formed a series of depressions. The tool is pressed onto a ball grid array and the ball grid array is realigned either with simple pressur... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6230961 | Plate link for attaching a clasp link to an ornamental chain and a method of attaching the end of a chain to a clasp link A plate link (1), for attaching a clasp link (5) to the end of an ornamental chain (4), is provided for welding electrically at point (2) to constitute an unopenable ring, at one side of which is attached the end (3) of the ornamental chain (4) and at the... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6213381 | Method of bonding metal plates, apparatus therefor and hot strip mill A bonding apparatus for bonding metal plates, includes an overlapping mechanism for overlapping end portions of the metal plates, at least two supports for supporting the overlapped portion of the metal plates at one side of the metal plates, and a sheari... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6135343 | Method for roll forming and machine and blank for this Method for the fabrication of cones of sheet material where the blank includes two curved edges that are circular and have the radius R and r respectively and a common center C. The blank further has two straight lateral edges which are angled in relation... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6070787 | Method of manufacturing chip components A chip component is manufactured through a step of burning a unburned unit element made of ceramics having prism-shaped parts at its ends, a step of polishing the edges of the burned unit element, and a step of forming a resistor conductor, an electrode c... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6041995 | Wire bonding method In a wire bonding method, particularly a method for forming a ball at an end of a bonding wire that has an intended ball size, a tail length of the bonding wire extending from the lower end of a capillary is determined according to the size of the intende... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6036081 | Fabrication of metallic articles using precursor sheets Articles are fabricated by collating and heating precursor metallic sheets of different compositions. The collated stack of sheets is heated with an applied pressure for a time sufficient to interdiffuse them either partially to produce a controllably mod... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5705010 | Multiple pane insulating glass unit with insulative spacer An insulating glass unit is shown comprising a pair of generally parallel, spaced-apart glass-panes and a spacer peripherally joining the glass panes to each other. The spacer is a tubular structure, and may include a particulate desiccant filling at leas... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5163603 | Process of manufacturing hollow triangular upper control arm An upper control arm for a vehicle suspension system having a modulus section of hollow construction for reduced weight. The modulus section of the control arm is of a stamped and welded construction thereby eliminating material weight while reducing the ... | 11/17/1992 |
| 4656713 | Method for forming an air gap pipe A process and an apparatus for forming an air gap pipe are provided. Inner and outer pipes are bent or deformed into comparable configurations such that the inner pipe can be mounted within the outer pipe. The outer pipe then is split longitudinally by a ... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4590652 | Method for fabricating an air gap pipe An air gap pipe and a method for forming the same are provided. The air gap pipe includes a non-linear outer pipe and an inner pipe of identical configuration disposed concentrically within the outer pipe. The inner pipe is supported by resilient dimples ... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4587700 | Method for manufacturing a dual alloy cooled turbine wheel A dual alloy cooled turbine is manufactured by casting a hollow cylinder of first nickel-base alloy material with high creep resistance to produce directionally oriented grain boundaries. A preform of a second nickel-base alloy material with high tensile ... | 05/13/1986 |
| 4189819 | Method of manufacturing metallic spirally wound gaskets For manufacturing a metallic spirally wound gasket having an outer centring ring it is proposed spirally to coil a corrugated strip of metallic material to form a sealing element of desired diameter and to surround the thus formed sealing element with a c... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4188700 | Method of constructing an attrition mill grate The cylindrical rotating grate of an attrition mill is constructed by welding a group of bars in close spaced parallel relationship, and then rolling this assembly into a cylindrical configuration. The meeting ends of this configuration are then welded, a... | 02/19/1980 |
