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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 |
| 7871072 | Media tray media biasing devices The present application is directed to methods and devices for aligning media sheets in an input tray of an image forming device. The input tray includes a support surface and at least two spaced apart side walls. A first side wall includes a reference surface to al... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7322575 | Device and method for aligning a stack of sheets arranged one above the other The invention relates to a device and a method for aligning at least the front edge of several sheets arranged in a stack, one above the other, whilst maintaining the order of the sheets. Said device comprises a stacking table, one side of which is provided with a f... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7303386 | Method and apparatus for squaring and flattening sheets Preheated plastic sheets are squared and flattened to be engageable by clamping fingers of clamps on a clamping frame by an array of paddles having vertical and horizontal portions moved to engage any upturned or skewed sheet edges to flatten and square the same as ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7255342 | Anti-skew device for mail processing machine In a mail processing machine comprising a reception plate for receiving, in the form of a stack of items, the mail items to be printed, a jogging means for jogging this stack of items against a reference wall, a selection means for extracting the mail items to be pr... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7128318 | Sheet registration deskew improvement system with a centrally pivotal baffle Sheet registration with improved sheet deskewing of print media sheets may be provided with an intermediately transversely pivotal baffle member overlying and engaging at least part of a buckled sheet being edge registered so that the effective buckle chamber size a... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7108648 | Bundled sheets processing apparatus A bundled sheet processing apparatus has a chute unit tilting between the first and second positions. A downstream side in the chute unit conveying direction, there is provided a stopper that has the contact surface narrower than the thickness of a bundle and stops ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 6935629 | Sheet guiding system and image forming device with sheet guiding system A sheet guiding system guides different sized sheets so as to be fed in a first direction. Sheets stacked on a sheet tray are guided by selectively using a fixed guide, a first movable guide, and a second movable guide. The fixed guide is provided on the sheet tray ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6730870 | Flat bed sorter Large items such as magazines or large envelopes lie flat upon and are transported by a first conveyor in a first, transverse direction until they sequentially encounter a frustoconical member rotatably mounted to a back wall. A second conveyor is disposed normal to... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6715754 | Device for deviating an overlapping stream on a roller table A device is provided for diverting an imbricated flow of printed products that is transported on a roller table having a plurality of rollers arranged one behind the other. The device comprises an elongated adjustment member whose position can be varied within a sli... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6712355 | Method and apparatus for locating and conveying sheet-like body A method for locating and conveying a veneer sheet includes: causing a downstream end of a veneer sheet conveyed by a travelling conveying member to abut against a blocking member to correct the attitude of the veneer sheet in such a state that a downstream end of t... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6676124 | Device for aligning sheets A printer or copier has a sheet alignment apparatus including a pair of detents, or walls, at a right angle to one another against which the sheet is moved. To move the sheet, a sheet positioning mechanism is provided which includes two paddlewheels that ... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6669193 | Device for aligning papers flowing in a stream An apparatus for adjusting paper copies which are skewed and for providing a shingled stream, the apparatus including an input, a singulating device having a vertically movable gate member, a first abutting surface formed on the gate member, a second fixe... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6666451 | Method and device for aligning sheets A method and a device for aligning sheets. The device includes a first and a second supporting stop for supporting the sheet against gravity in a first non-aligned position of the sheet. The device further includes two alignment stops and an actuator for ... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6267371 | Receiver sheet supply cassette, for holding a supply of sheets defining a stack of sheets and method of assembling same Printer and receiver supply cassette therefor, and method of assembling same. A printer comprises a print head for printing an image on any of a plurality of receiver sheets arranged in a stack. A receiver sheet supply cassette is also provided, which cas... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6237911 | Sheet material guide A sheet material guide (1) for guiding banknotes as a sheet material to a banknote processor used for service machines such as an automatic vending machine, an exchanging machine, pachinko ball dispensing machine and a medal dispensing machine, wherein a ... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6123331 | Sheet joggler system Sheet joggler system with an inlet roller pair (70, 70'), an outlet roller pair (71, 71'), sheet guides (48, 49) determining a curved sheet path between these roller pairs, a sheet supporting plate (65) between the inlet roller pair and the sheet guides, ... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6113092 | Sheet-fed printing press with rotary decollator A printing machine is described that includes a rotary plate for decollating top sheet from a stack of sheets by turning the top sheet so as to expose a second sheet. The machine also has a clamping finger that tilts into position to hold the second sheet... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6006638 | Automated sheet metal blanking apparatus An automated sheet metal blanking apparatus includes a loading table having a conveyor horizontally moveable between a loading position wherein sheet metal pieces are loaded onto the conveyor and a destacking station wherein the conveyor transfers the she... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5947468 | Method and apparatus for jogging and edging of mail and other flat articles An improved device for edging flat products is provided having a plurality of spaced apart generally upstanding fingers, the fingers being forwardly translatable with a group of flat products between them. Each of the fingers is rockable back and forth ac... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5931456 | Fine-pitch paper adjustment guide for image forming devices The invention includes an adjustable media tray for an image forming device such as a printer, copier or facsimile machine. The media tray incorporates a media guide which is slidably mounted on the tray. The media tray and associated guide incorporate a ... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5489360 | Label sticking apparatus and label tape A label sticking apparatus has a suction drum with at least three holding-sticking units mounted at constant intervals on the periphery thereof so as to be movable in radial directions of the suction drum. The suction drum is rotated intermittently by a c... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5465953 | Bank note conveying equipment A bank note conveying equipment which is capable of preventing a jam during conveyance of bank note caused by damaged bank note and any problems in collecting and storing the bank note in a bank note storing unit. Bank notes are held between a pinch rolle... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5461977 | Device for transferring single sheets to the impression cylinder of a sheet fed rotary printing machine The device has a sheet-transfer cylinder (2) with a movable setting plate (3) which bears the sheet grippers (4) and whose lateral ends are individually adjustable during each revolution of the transfer cylinder (2) with the aid in each case of a roller l... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5413204 | Glass plate positioning and supplying machine A glass plate positioning and supplying machine has a glass plate positioning machine disposed above a roller conveyor for adjusting the longitudinal, transverse, and rotational position of the glass plate, and a glass plate supplying machine disposed bel... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5292117 | Image forming apparatus having sheet cassette having lateral guides A sheet feed cassette capable of preventing a sheet of a sheet stack from diagonal feeding when the sheet is delivered out of the cassette. The sheet feed cassette has sheet guides at lateral sides thereof whose inner surfaces serve as sheet guide surface... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5209808 | Corner label applicator system and method An applicator system and method for automatically applying and securing an adhesive backed (or gummed) label onto a corner surface of a typically three-dimensional, right-angle polygonal object such that the body of the label is applied and adhered to one... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5174560 | Sheet supply apparatus A sheet supply apparatus supplies a sheet such as an X-ray sheet film from a cassette to a recording device. The sheet supply apparatus has at least a pair of rollers for gripping and feeding a sheet, a feeding mechanism for feeding a sheet from a storage... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173029 | Glass sheet positioning device A device (10) for positioning a glass sheet or other generally rigid planar object (G), having a roller bed table (12) for supporting the object in a horizontal plane and an overhead device (14) carrying a first set of spaced apart arms (26, 28, 30, 32), ... | 12/22/1992 |
| 5145168 | Counter-clockwise single sheet rotator A pivot brake is used in conjunction with a ball-on-belt transport and dual registration edge guides to rotate and register the output of printers by 90° to satisfy on-line finishing requirements. As a sheet is fed into the rotation mechanism by the ball... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5131937 | Device for aligning glazing panes during transport on a roller conveyor A roller conveyor has an aligning device for glazing panes. The conveyor includes a plurality of aligned rollers forming a roller bed and driven for advancing glass panes in a conveying direction. The aligning device includes a rail disposed above the rol... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5091754 | Image forming apparatus comprising lateral movement means This invention relates to an image forming apparatus having a convey path comprising lateral movement apparatus for controlling a widthwise position of a sheet member to be conveyed, wherein the lateral movement apparatus is curved in a convey direction.... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5082268 | Credit card dispensing and positioning apparatus Apparatus for accurately dispensing and positioning a credit card onto a predetermined area of a surface, includes a support tray which supports a stack of cards; a pusher assembly including a pusher plate which pushes out a leading edge of a lowermost on... | 01/21/1992 |
| 4940220 | Supporting device A device (1) for supporting a stack of sheet material with zones of uneven thickness, e.g. envelopes (11), on a printer with a pick-up device (16, 17) for the envelopes and a table (10) is provided with a supporting plate (2) as well as bar type supportin... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4874160 | Paper cartridge with paper aligning means A paper cartridge for a paper processing apparatus such as a copier includes a table on which sheets of paper are placed and two side plates and a back plate which are movable perpendicularly to and along the direction of their transportation, respectivel... | 10/17/1989 |
| 4644834 | Apparatus for positioning of sheet metal plates arranged on a metal feed table of a metal shear A feed lever and a lateral stop with individual guide members spaced apart and arranged in slot-shaped grooves of the metal feed table supported so that they can be raised and lowered on a support. The guide members are each equipped with a guide body pos... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4235431 | Method and apparatus for transporting documents with preselected interdocument spacing A method and apparatus is disclosed for receiving and processing a stack of small documents, such as checks. The documents are stacked in front surface-to-back surface relationship and are singly fed from the stack automatically into a path. The advanceme... | 11/25/1980 |
| 4171127 | Apparatus for collating pages of multi-up printed documents An apparatus for collating pages of a document, which are sequentially printed on a continuous sheet in multipage rows, that is in multi-up fashion, comprises a plurality of decks at least equal in number to the number of pages in each row. Each deck has ... | 10/16/1979 |
