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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 |
| 8162570 | Powder feeding device for spray coating powder A spraycoating powder feed apparatus includes a powder pump of which the direction of feed is reversible and a conduit switch configured to alternately link either of two powder conduits to a powder hookup of the powder pump as a function of the conveyance direction... | 04/24/2012 |
| 7789595 | Combustion state detection apparatus for internal combustion engine Disclosed is a combustion state detection apparatus for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of detecting abnormal combustion with high accuracy. The combustion state detection apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes: a variety of sensors; an... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7544017 | Pneumatic sculpture A pneumatic sculpture 10 includes a display tube 30 having a first end 40 and a second end 50. The pneumatic sculpture 10 also includes one or more projectiles 20 contained within the display tube 30. The projectile | 06/09/2009 |
| 7347649 | Powder purge tube To supply a powder lacquer sprayer, the coating powder is pressed by a pig through the supply line and, in the process, it is fluidized from the side of the pig which is turned toward the powder. The fluidization air can be led to the powder, for example, by a centr... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7341406 | Pneumatic transport tube system A pneumatic transport system including an up receive/down send customer terminal having a pivot assembly for vertically and pivotally displacing a pneumatic carrier between a vertical position and an angularly disposed presentation position. The customer terminal in... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7331442 | Chip components feeding apparatus A chip components feeding apparatus is provided to be able to lessen a push load applied to a leading electronic part from succeeding electronic chip component to favorably take out the leading electronic part even in the case where a residual pressure phenomenon oc... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7322793 | Turbine motor of a rotary atomizer A turbine, e.g., with a blade arrangement, which receives an air flow in the radial direction and which is located on a carrier surface of the turbine wheel, is used as a drive motor for a rotary atomizer. The drive channel, which contains the turbine blades and whi... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7320562 | Pneumatic transport tube system A pneumatic transport system including an up receive/down send customer terminal having a pivot assembly for vertically and pivotally displacing a pneumatic carrier between a vertical position and an angularly disposed presentation position. The customer terminal in... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7318690 | Pneumatic transport tube system A pneumatic transport system including an up receive/down send customer terminal having a pivot assembly for vertically and pivotally displacing a pneumatic carrier between a vertical position and an angularly disposed presentation position. The customer terminal in... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7316526 | Pneumatic transport tube system A pneumatic transport system including an up receive/down send customer terminal having a pivot assembly for vertically and pivotally displacing a pneumatic carrier between a vertical position and an angularly disposed presentation position. The customer terminal in... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7314339 | Pneumatic tube system terminal A pneumatic carrier transport system includes a user terminal. A piston of a rodless cylinder can be used to telescopically move a blocking cylinder. The blocking cylinder is vertically displaced to an open position to permit manual access to a carrier received at t... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7314338 | Pneumatic transport tube system A pneumatic transport system including an up receive/down send customer terminal having a pivot assembly for vertically and pivotally displacing a pneumatic carrier between a vertical position and an angularly disposed presentation position. The customer terminal in... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7314337 | Pneumatic transport tube system A pneumatic transport system including an up receive/down send customer terminal having a pivot assembly for vertically and pivotally displacing a pneumatic carrier between a vertical position and an angularly disposed presentation position. The customer terminal in... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7311471 | Pneumatic transport tube system A pneumatic transport system including an up receive/down send customer terminal having a pivot assembly for vertically and pivotally displacing a pneumatic carrier between a vertical position and an angularly disposed presentation position. The customer terminal in... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7311475 | Pneumatic transport tube system A pneumatic transport system including an up receive/down send customer terminal having a pivot assembly for vertically and pivotally displacing a pneumatic carrier between a vertical position and an angularly disposed presentation position. The customer terminal in... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7311473 | Pneumatic transport tube system A pneumatic transport system including an up receive/down send customer terminal having a pivot assembly for vertically and pivotally displacing a pneumatic carrier between a vertical position and an angularly disposed presentation position. The customer terminal in... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7311472 | Pneumatic transport tube system A pneumatic transport system including an up receive/down send customer terminal having a pivot assembly for vertically and pivotally displacing a pneumatic carrier between a vertical position and an angularly disposed presentation position. The customer terminal in... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7309192 | Pneumatic transport tube system A pneumatic transport system including an up receive/down send customer terminal having a pivot assembly for vertically and pivotally displacing a pneumatic carrier between a vertical position and an angularly disposed presentation position. The customer terminal in... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7275702 | Valve unit for an electrostatic coating installation The main needle valve of an electrostatic atomizer has an opto-electronic sensor device with optical waveguides whose faces are opposite a reflecting element of a component moveable with the valve needle for potential-free switch position interrogations. ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7264421 | Door and valve assembly for a pneumatic transmission system A door and valve assembly for a pneumatic transmission system including a port configured to permit ambient air to flow into a pneumatic transmission conduit, a body having a seal and configured to open and close the port and an end of the transmission conduit, and ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7241080 | Pump for transferring particulate material A pump for transferring particulate material from a source to a remote location, including a particulate chamber having open ends, check valves at the open ends, a vacuum source connected to the chamber adjacent one end, a gas source at the opposed end of the chambe... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7234898 | Pneumatic transmission system A pneumatic transmission system includes a first terminal, a second terminal, and a transmission conduit connecting the first and second terminals in fluid communication with each other. The pneumatic transmission system may include a first blower directly connected... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7220082 | Pneumatic tube system terminal and method A pneumatic transport system including a user terminal at a service provider station having a movable member operably connected with a flexible drive member. The drive member moves within at least one side rail to vertically displace the movable member to permit acc... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7163359 | Device for conveying powder and method for operating the same Transport system with several devices (1) for transporting powder, where each device (1) has a transfer chamber (3) into which a supply line (6) and a discharge line (8) for the powder open, and means to generate a negative pressur... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7153065 | Multi-stage air pressure apparatus and a bi-directional pneumatic conveyance system incorporating such apparatus A multi-stage pressure/vacuum apparatus is disclosed for a bi-directional pneumatic delivery system or the like. The apparatus includes separated turbines or separated sets of turbines that are operated independently of each other to alternatively create pressure an... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7140810 | Pneumatic tube system terminal and method A pneumatic transport system including a user terminal at a service provider station having a movable member operably connected with a flexible drive member. The drive member moves within at least one side rail to vertically displace the movable member to permit acc... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7104734 | One-way pneumatic delivery system A one-way pneumatic delivery system includes a plurality of sending units in fluid communication with a receiving unit via a duct system. Each of the sending units and the receiving unit include a door that selectively prevents fluid communication into the duct syst... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7036750 | Axial shaping air design for paint atomizer Rotary atomizer for coating work pieces, with a rotating bell-shaped plate shaft for a bell-shaped plate for discharging a spray stream of a coating agent, at least one steering air outlet for discharging steering air for shaping the spray stream, a housing, and als... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7018679 | Coating installation with an atomizer change station A change station for atomizer (7) and other tools that contains a carousel-like rotatable and/or linearly movable mount (112) is arranged on the wall of the cabin of a coating installation. The arrangement is such that the storage locations of the chan... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6972052 | Rotational atomizer with external heating system In a coating device with a rotary atomizer, for preventing the condensation of spray cabin air on components cooled by the lower-pressure exhaust air of the drive turbine of the atomizer, a heating device is provided, which can heat air flowing through the atomizer ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6729808 | Mail delivery system A mail delivery system includes a housing having a bottom wall, an upper wall, and a peripheral wall. An elongate tubular member has a first end attached to an opening in the peripheral wall. The second end extends into a dwelling. The elongate tubular member has a ... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6685401 | Apparatus and method for controlling suspended articles in an air conveyor The air conveyor comprises a guide rail (3) on which the articles (1) are to be suspended, and along which the articles are to be transported in a given direction of transport. The conveyor system provides a pneumatic means to move the articles in the dir... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6659693 | Pneumatic tube distribution system and method A pneumatic system for transporting a carrier includes a first transport tube coupled to a first transport station and a second transport tube coupled to a second transport station. A distributor coupled to the first transport tube and the second transpor... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6652198 | Air valve A blower assembly for a pneumatic tube system sequences start of two pneumatic sources, such as blowers, to pneumatically position passive closure devices, such as spools, that shift the blower assembly between pressure and vacuum modes. Thereafter, both ... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6508610 | Apparatus and method of pneumatically conveying powder substances and use of the apparatus An apparatus for pneumatically conveying powder substances in a pipe system, wherein a volume is sucked in with reduced pressure and discharged with increased pressure for being passed further along, characterized in that the apparatus has within the pipe... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6474912 | Pneumatic mail delivery system A pneumatic mail delivery system includes a carrier having first and second open ends and corresponding hinged covers for selectably covering the open ends. The system includes first and second carrier terminals each having front openings selectively cove... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6210080 | Pneumatic transport and control device for transporting filter rod sections Apparatus for transporting a file of successive filter rod sections lengthwise from a sender (such as a filter rod making machine) to a remote receiver (such as the magazine of a filter tipping machine) has an elongated pneumatic conduit with a section-re... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6068428 | Capsule train separation system for fluid capsule pipeline transporation Apparatus for spacing consecutive capsules of solid material traveling as a capsule train in a pipeline in which the capsules are carried by a fluid flowing through the pipeline includes a separation system interposed between upstream and downstream porti... | 05/30/2000 |
| 5769286 | Hosiery item spreading unit with pneumatic feed, usable with pneumatic hosiery item convenience systems equipped with a centralized suction A hosiery item spreading unit with pneumatic feed, usable with pneumatic hosiery item conveyance systems equipped with a centralized suction, comprising: a structure which forms an elongated spreading chamber arranged with its longitudinal axis substantia... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5641250 | Method and apparatus for transporting filter rod sections Filter rod sections are transported sideways from a magazine containing a pile of parallel sections toward positions of alignment with the inlet of a pneumatic conveyor and are propelled into the conveyor at a transfer station where they continue to move ... | 06/24/1997 |
