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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 |
| 6046678 | Protective device for storage and transport containers A protective device for storage and transport containers comprises, in accordance with the present invention, a housing or frame carrying a sensor for detecting orientation, an attachment element for securing the housing or frame to a container, an alarm ... | 04/04/2000 |
| 4821644 | Method and apparatus for positioning a member The method utilizes an encoding switch to derive encoded position signals representing the current position of a member such as the print element of a franking machine. The switch has conductive strips and in order to ensure reliable operation of the swit... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4711991 | Counting apparatus A counting apparatus comprising a drum counting mechanism and a step motor for driving the drum counting mechanism. A housing for the drum counting mechanism includes a wall which forms a part of the housing for the step motor, the step motor including a ... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4677283 | Device for counting and loading small items into containers A counting and batching device for items such as tablets, capsules or caplets is faster than the electronic radial feeder counters, and is more easily adjustable for different quantities, sizes and shapes of items than slat counters or disk counters. The ... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4482884 | Monitoring device for delivering an alarm signal in dependency on a counter result A monitoring device for emitting an alarm signal by means of an alarm transmitter in dependency on the count result of a counter with at least one roller, particularly a kilometer counter, with a first sensing element which has a predetermined roller posi... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4433234 | Mechanical preselection counter A mechanical preselection counter having: a counter, which has figure rollers and a zero-setting device for the figure rollers; a preselection unit having that number of preselection rollers and transmission of feed gears corresponding to the number of fi... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4415801 | Printer countwheel mechanism A printer countwheel mechanism in a time stamp machine keeps a running count of the number of groups of documents stamped by automatically advancing a countwheel to the next highest number when all documents in the group have been stamped. A document grou... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4307291 | Resettable mileage counting mechanism A mileage counter for vehicles that provides signals after predetermined mileage intervals indicating the need for vehicle maintenance. Several different maintenance requirements are signalled at different intervals and after the maintenance on the vehicl... | 12/22/1981 |
| 4300117 | Alarm device for an odometer To an odometer which has two parallel shafts, one being fitted with a plurality of distance-indicating wheels, while the other is fitted with a plurality of carry pinions which actuate said distance-indicating wheels, is fitted an alarm device, which comp... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4284972 | Vehicle mileage interval detector An apparatus for providing a service reminder when a vehicle has accumulated a predetermined mileage comprises a potentiometer operated by the highest order number wheel of the vehicle odometer to provide an output voltage which changes incrementally with... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4277677 | Mechanical counter A plurality of presettable digit wheels are rotatably mounted on a first axis. Each of said wheels is rotatable to a plurality of preset positions corresponding to respective values of an associated digit position of a preselected count. Retaining means r... | 07/07/1981 |
| 4244515 | Preset counter A preset counter has a case and one or more counter units. Each counter unit has a number wheel, a first intermediate wheel in mesh with the number wheel, a preset wheel and a second intermediate wheel in mesh with the preset wheel. Said first intermediat... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4197452 | Counters reset to zero by push buttons In a counter reset to zero by a push button and adapted to be mounted on a tape recorder or the like, there are provided a U shaped frame including a bottom plate, a pair of side plates, a spacer parallel with the side plates, a plurality of pinion aligni... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4194112 | Presetting counter device A presetting counter device comprising a ratchet wheel coupled to a cycle number setting dial and being stepwise rotatable for reducing the setting of the dial, an indexer engageable with the ratchet wheel in operative relation to the movement of a cyclic... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4160900 | Mileage switch and latch means The drawings illustrate a switch and latch arrangement responsive to vehicular odometer movement and including means formed at a predetermined location on one of the odometer number wheels, indicative of a predetermined cumulative vehicle travel, for pivo... | 07/10/1979 |
| 3944980 | Electronic sequence control system Electrical sequence control system. There is described an electrical sequence control system which is controlled according to a predetermined program by means of a switching circuit wherein the outputs of the binary counter are connected with n bits to th... | 03/16/1976 |
