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Combination Beverage Container and Spittoon
A combination beverage container and spittoon includes a bottom portion including outer wall and a first inner wall defining a spittoon space.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7408298 | Image display device On a back surface of a back substrate on which electron emission sources are formed, a getter room is formed by the back substrate and a cup-shaped room member. In the inside of the getter room, a getter assembly which includes a getter housing which holds a getter ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7319286 | Display device A display device includes a front substrate having an anode and fluorescent materials on an inner surface, and a back substrate having a plurality of cathode lines and include electron sources, and a plurality of control electrodes allow electrons from the electron ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7205712 | Spiral cold cathode fluorescent lamp A light tube for a cold cathode fluorescent lamp includes a light tube body, anode and cathode disposed in the light tube body and an activated gas absorber. The light tube body contains inert gas, mercury substance and a layer of phosphor coating on its inner surfa... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7083825 | Composition used in producing calcium-rich getter thin film An improved getter device and method for forming a calcium-rich getter thin film in an electronic vacuum device is disclosed. The getter device includes a powder of a Ca—Ba—Al ternary alloy composed of between 53% and 56.8% by weight of aluminum, from 36% to 41.... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7081225 | Methods and apparatus for disinfecting and sterilizing fluid using ultraviolet radiation An apparatus for sterilizing or disinfecting fluids, which comprises a fluid conduit, an ultraviolet light source, which is at least partially within the fluid conduit, and an air drive unit coupled to the fluid conduit. The ultraviolet light source generates an ult... | 07/25/2006 |
| 6958570 | Display device Inside an outer frame, which is interposed at between opposedly facing peripheries between a back substrate and a front substrate, there is an inner frame which fixes both end portions of plate member control electrodes, which are constituted of a large number of pa... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6916223 | Discharge lamps using hollow cathodes with integrated getters and methods for manufacturing same A hollow cathode having at least a portion of the inner, outer or both surfaces coated with a layer of a getter material is described. Some methods for the production of the hollow cathode of the invention are also described, which include cathodic and electrophoret... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6891323 | Fluorescent lamp and amalgam assembly therefor An amalgam assembly for a fluorescent lamp includes an exhaust tubulation closed at a free end thereof, a glass ball disposed in the tubulation, and a mercury amalgam body disposed in the tubulation between the glass ball and the tubulation closed end. The tubulatio... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6888294 | Field emission device using a reducing gas and method for making same The invention concerns a device comprising at least one field effect electron source within a sealed structure, which encompasses an internal space that contains a reducing gas whose purpose is to prevent oxidation of the emissive material of the electron source, wh... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6867543 | Microdevice assembly having a fine grain getter layer for maintaining vacuum A microdevice assembly (20) that includes a device microstructure (22), a housing (30), and a fine grain getter layer (40). The housing (30) has a base portion (32) and a lid (34). The device microstructure (22... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6784613 | Non-evaporating getter, fabrication method of the same, and display unit A non-evaporating getter maintains the adsorbability for the residual gases, and in addition, secures sufficient characteristics particularly even when it experiences a high-temperature and low-vacuum condition in the fabrication process of a display unit. Th... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6753647 | Composition of getter and field emission display using the same A composition of a getter and a field emission display (FED) using the same are disclosed which are capable of improving a degree of vacuum and a gas rejection capability by performing an activation process by using a getter that can lower an activation temperature.... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6194830 | Multi-compartment getter-containing flat-panel device A getter (74) is situated in an auxiliary compartment (72) of a hollow structure (40-46 and 76) having a larger main compartment (70). The auxiliary compartment is situated outside the main compartment and is connected to the main compartment so that the ... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6172460 | Display device Display device, in particular a PALC device, having a plasma space provided with a capsule (46) comprising getter material for supplying guest material to the plasma, e.g. H2, HD, D2. The capsule remains closed until the critical hig... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6104138 | Frittable-evaporable getters having discontinuous metallic members, radial recesses and indentations A frittable evaporable getter device includes a metallic container having a disk-shaped bottom wall and a side wall extending upwardly from the bottom wall. A powder compact having an upper surface in which at least two radial recesses are formed is dispo... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6037711 | Flat panel display anode that reduces the reflectance of ambient light An anode of a flat panel display has a glass substrate, a patterned black grille on the substrate, a conductive layer covering the grille and the substrate, a phosphor layer covering, and one or more additional transparent layers that reduce the reflectan... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5977706 | Multi-compartment getter-containing flat-panel device A flat-panel device, typically a flat-panel display, contains a main compartment (46) formed with a first plate structure (40), a second plate structure (42), and an outer wall (44) that extends between the plate structures. A getter (94) is situated in a... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5866978 | Matrix getter for residual gas in vacuum sealed panels An integral and internal matrix getter structure for capturing residual gas in a vacuum sealed container is disclosed. The vacuum sealed container may be a flat panel display having a small vacuum gap between two closely spaced panels. The getter structur... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5543687 | Hydrogen-gas discharge lamp A hydrogen discharge lamp has a glass lamp enclosure formed with a radiation-emitting window and receiving a body of a zirconium-cobalt alloy forming in part a hydride which constitutes a reservoir for hydrogen or deuterium and enabling controlled liberat... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5498925 | Flat panel display apparatus, and method of making same The disclosed multi-pixel flat panel displays (e.g., flat panel field emission displays (FPFED) or liquid crystal displays (LCD)) includes spaced apart first and second electrodes, with a patterned solid material layer in contact with one of the electrode... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5443410 | Getter fixing device for a cathode ray tube A getter fixing device for a cathode ray tube includes one or more folded strips. These strips are welded to a getter cover or united in one body with the getter cover or a support member. The device also includes two inclined wing portions that direct di... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5434472 | High-pressure sodium discharge lamp with getter The invention relates to a high-pressure sodium discharge lamp provided with a discharge vessel (3) with a ceramic wall (3a) of aluminum oxide in which at least Na as an ionizable filling component, a rare gas and Al (20) are present. According to the inv... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5394056 | Opening of capsule inside sealed lamp A capsule containing a precise amount of a substance such as mercury is mounted in an electrode mount assembly on a temperature sensitive member. At elevated temperatures the capsule is moved away from lamp components by the temperature sensitive member t... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5312606 | Process for the sorption of residual gas by means of a non-evaporated barium getter alloy The process of the present invention provides for the sorption of unwanted gas in a vessel by means of a non-evaporated barium getter. It comprises the steps of reducing an alloy of Ba1-x Ax Li4-y By to a partic... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5312607 | Process for the sorption of residual gas by means by a non-evaporated barium getter alloy The process of the present invention provides for the sorption of residual gas in a vessel by means of a non-activated, non-evaporated barium getter. It comprises the steps of reducing an alloy of Baz +(Ba1-x Ax)n | 05/17/1994 |
| 5118988 | High yield wide channel annular ring shaped getter device An evaporable getter device, for mounting in an electron tube, comprises a holder whose bottom wall is provided with means for preventing detachment of getter metal vapor releasing material which has been pressed into the holder and which has a multiplici... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5023512 | Getter means and lamp including same A lamp including an evacuated outer jacket, a light source capsule mounted within an evacuated outer jacket, and getter assembly disposed within the outer jacket is disclosed. the getter assembly includes a getter and protection device for protecting lamp... | 06/11/1991 |
| 4961040 | High yield pan-shaped getter device An evaporable getter device for mounting in an electron tube is provided which comprises a pan-shaped container having a vertical side wall formed around the perimeter of a disc shaped bottom wall and a pulverized getter metal vapor releasing material pre... | 10/02/1990 |
| 4924145 | Mercury capsule support A lamp including a fill gas with a mercury component may be safely dosed with mercury by including at least one mercury capsule in the envelope for subsequent opening by radiant means to dose the closed envelope with mercury. A spring coil or similar mean... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4833362 | Encapsulated high brightness electron beam source and system An encapsulated high brightness source for use in or with an electron beam system such as an electron beam microscope. The source preferably includes a field emitter. The source includes source enclosure means which defines an ultra high vacuum enclosure ... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4827188 | Hydrogen getter and method of manufacture A hydrogen getter for use within the arc tube assembly of a gas discharge lamp e.g. a high pressure sodium discharge lamp, comprises a layer (11) of a getter material (eg Ti) sandwiched by diffusion bonding between layers (12, 13) of a hydrogen permeable ... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4740985 | Getter assembly In the present invention, a getter assembly is formed by a housing containing a cavity in which the passageway into the cavity is covered by an end cover which is permeable to selected gases. Internal to the cavity formed by the housing is an activated ge... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4733124 | Cathode structure for magnetron A cathode structure for a magnetron representative of a self-oscillation type microwave electron tube comprises a pair of opposite end shields for supporting both ends of a filament helically wound in an axial direction, and a getter fixed on at least an ... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4721882 | Cathode ray tube A television camera tube including a getter (23,24) is assembled so as to be thermally independent of an electron gun (4) and may be provided with any desired electric potential. The getter (23,24) is positioned in a tubular envelope portion (1) of the tu... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4717500 | Getter device for frit sealed picture tubes Getter device containing a barium-aluminum alloy powder and a boron-containing, and chromium-containing nickel base alloy powder.... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4686421 | Glow discharge starter and arc discharge lamp containing same This invention relates to a glow discharge starter having a sealed envelope containing an ionizable medium, a bimetallic electrode and a counter electrode located within the envelope. A getter holder is secured to one of the electrodes adjacent the intern... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4642516 | Getter assembly providing increased getter yield Getter assembly having an annular channel for containing getter material, the bottom of the channel being provided with an annular, integral, groove of bulb-shaped cross-section extending into said channel to lock with said getter material.... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4577136 | Cathode-ray tube having a gettering device and gettering device suitable for said tube In a cathode-ray tube having a glass envelope portion, a gettering device (18) is urged against an internal wall portion of the glass envelope portion (2) by means of a resilient metal strip (19) connected to a component of the tube. The gettering device ... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4553065 | Getter assembly with improved support A getter assembly is described having an improved support such that the points of contact with the glass wall of a cathode ray tube have as low a temperature as possible. An antenna position mounting can be attached to the lower side of the central disc-s... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4536677 | Getter assembly with an improved means of connecting the antenna mount to the getter material container A getter assembly is described which has an antenna mount in the form of a small bar placed along the diameter of an annular container. The antenna mount is formed in such a way as to touch the container only in areas near to the inner wall. In order to r... | 08/20/1985 |
