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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 |
| 8070409 | Method and apparatus for transporting steel billets An apparatus to feed elongated metallic workpieces to a manufacturing process including a storage hopper configured to hold a plurality of workpieces that are randomly oriented and a movement device having a workpiece support that is automatically engageable with a ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 7165303 | Disc cassette delidder and feeder system for data storage devices A disc cassette delidder and feeder system that includes a frame supporting; a feed-in conveyor with a movable conveyor portion, a delidder assembly attached to a lid elevator, a caddy grip and rotate assembly secured to a caddy elevator, and a re-lid assembly porti... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7101138 | Extractor/buffer An automated material handling system that includes an extractor/buffer apparatus capable of simultaneously accessing multiple Work-In-Process (WIP) parts, thereby providing a highly efficient interface between WIP storage locations and transport equipment. The extr... | 09/05/2006 |
| 6930762 | Master transport apparatus An exposure apparatus has a mask stage (9), a prealignment device (7) which prealigns a mask (1) to be transferred to the stage (9), and a manipulating mechanism (10) which transports a master or exchanges two masters between the s... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6560510 | Simultaneous auto-loading tower An apparatus and method for the efficient simultaneous loading and unloading a plurality of compact disc media into and out of a plurality of recording bays. The present invention provides a plurality of two position platters that allow the simultaneous r... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6517691 | Substrate processing system A substrate processing system includes a primary processing assembly and secondary processing assembly. The secondary processing assembly has one or more interconnected modules and includes one or more process stations. The primary and secondary processin... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6488778 | Apparatus and method for controlling wafer environment between thermal clean and thermal processing An apparatus and method for controlling wafer temperature and environment is provided. The apparatus includes a batch processing fixture for batch processing wafers at a first elevated temperature. The batch of wafers is not substantially ramped in temper... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6471460 | Apparatus for processing a microelectronic workpiece including a workpiece cassette inventory assembly An apparatus is set forth for providing access to individual workpiece positions in a microelectronic workpiece cassette. The assembly comprises a workpiece cassette inventory assembly having a plurality of cassette inventory cassette supports, which are ... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6450755 | Dual arm substrate handling robot with a batch loader A substrate handling robot includes an arm drive mechanism. A first arm is connected to the arm drive mechanism. A multiple substrate batch loader is connected to the first arm. A second arm is also connected to the arm drive mechanism. A single plane end... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6375403 | Loading and unloading station for semiconductor processing installations In a loading and unloading station for semiconductor processing installations, the object of the present invention is to ensure charging proceeding from transporting containers under clean room conditions. These transporting containers themselves serve as... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6319373 | Substrate transfer apparatus of substrate processing system A substrate transfer system is used in an in-line film deposition system. The substrate transfer system is provided with an auxiliary vacuum chamber and a main vacuum chamber. The auxiliary vacuum chamber has a plurality of first substrate cassettes. The ... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6248967 | IC testing apparatus A tray transfer arm 205 for transferring one or more customer trays KST which hold semiconductor devices IC, comprises a pair of tray holders 205a, 205b which are provided substantially in the upper and lower direction.... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6195876 | Electronic component placing apparatus In an electronic component placing apparatus, four magazines are mounted on a head, and yet electronic components are housed in each magazine. In this apparatus, by an operation of selectively inserting a suction nozzle into four insertion openings in the... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6148988 | Automatic pallet changer An automatic pallet changer is composed of a pallet lifting mechanism and a revolving mechanism. The pallet lifting mechanism has a pallet platform and a lifting rod which is fastened with the bottom of the pallet platform. The pallet platform and the lif... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6036426 | Wafer handling method and apparatus Wafer handling apparatus includes a plurality of holding stations arranged in an upstream-to-downstream order and devices to treat the wafers held at the stations. Cyclically operative wafer shifting devices engage the wafers, simultaneously remove the en... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5938902 | Disc-handling apparatus A disc-handling apparatus for supporting a magnetic disc during material deposition and for transporting the disc into and out of a deposition station is described. The apparatus has a holder that supports a disc at three contact points by a support and a... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5730162 | Apparatus and method for washing substrates A substrate washing apparatus includes a bath, a washing solution supply source, a first path for allowing the washing solution overflowing from the bath, a rinse solution supply source, a second path for passing the rinse solution, a common path communic... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5525912 | Probing equipment and a probing method A wafer prober comprises a wafer chuck for chucking a wafer and a probe card holding section for holding two or more probe cards. The wafer prober further comprises a test section for simultaneously testing a plurality of chips among chips in one wafer, w... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5515986 | Plasma treatment apparatus and method for operating same An apparatus for plasma treating workpieces in vacuum includes a stack of plasma chambers (20). Handling of workpieces to and from the plasma chambers of the stack is performed in parallelism by one handling device and through lateral handling openings of... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5104277 | Method and apparatus for automatically changing printed circuit board test fixtures The automated changer for printed circuit board test fixtures includes apparatus for transporting printed circuit board test fixtures between a printed circuit board test fixture storage apparatus and a printed circuit board test facility. The automated c... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5100502 | Semiconductor wafer transfer in processing systems An improved semiconductor wafer transfer method and system incorporates a combination of wafer retractor (14) and wafer lifters (16) built into each processing chamber with a modified transport arm (12) to achieve large enhancements in wafer exchange spee... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5076750 | Apparatus for automatically loading and unloading adhesive tape cores on adhesive tape roll making machines An apparatus for automatically loading and unloading adhesive tape cores on adhesive tape roll making machines comprises a bearing structure provided with sliding horizontal guides thereon corresponding trolleys are slidably driven, which support comb ele... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5059392 | Batch sterilizing system A batch sterilization system is disclosed for first loading containers to be sterilized into cars, transferring the loaded cars into one of a plurality of retorts arranged in horizontal rows and vertical columns, sterilizing the containers while in the re... | 10/22/1991 |
| 4995331 | Apparatus for glazing articles of earthenware or porcelain An apparatus for glazing an article of earthenware or porcelain such as e.g. a plate or the like includes a capstan with a plurality of arms each supporting a workpiece holder for at least one glaze vessel which is rotatable about its axis and tiltable re... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4981408 | Dual track handling and processing system A dual track substrate handling and processing system includes an entrance load lock station, an exit load lock station and a plurality of substrate processing stations, all positioned above a transfer vacuum chamber. The load lock station and each proces... | 01/01/1991 |
| 4938858 | Cathode sputtering system A cathode sputtering system comprising an annularly-shaped process chamber and a correspondingly annularly-shaped substrate carrier accommodated therein. The chamber and carrier are positioned vertically. A cathode station and a loading and unloading stat... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4555067 | Textile doff servant A power-driven, wheeled vehicle which interacts semiautomatically with winders in a spinning area to doff completed yarn packages, automatically delivers the packages to an unload station to unload the packages from the vehicle and then moves to another w... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4531868 | Broaching machine A high production surface broaching machine, in which a plurality of parts are located and clamped simultaneously in broaching position, broached, and simultaneously unclamped and discharged into an outchute. The plurality of parts are moved horizontally ... | 07/30/1985 |
| 4113083 | Apparatus for transferring a deformable cylindrical work piece from one work station to another An apparatus is provided for transferring a cylindrical work piece from a first work station to a second work station is provided. The apparatus comprises a transfer element extending substantially in one main plane, and moveable in said plane. The transf... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4036381 | Apparatus for transferring sample holders relative to a movable magazine Plural sample container holders, each of which is capable of carrying a plurality of sample containers, are carried in a box-like magazine. The sample handling system, has an incrementably operable first conveyor that conveys the loaded magazines. Interse... | 07/19/1977 |
