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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 |
| 7101140 | Apparatus for storage and unloading of granular material The object of the invention is an apparatus for storage of wood chips in a curved-top stockpile the apparatus consisting of a central tower which supports a conveyor for loading the chips and a beam-like turning pile composer, and a unloading beam supported on groun... | 09/05/2006 |
| 6948902 | Carrier wheel assembly for sweep auger A carrier wheel assembly for supporting a sweep auger at intermediate positions having a first wheel that is rotatably mounted to the shaft of the auger and extends rearwardly through a slot and secured to the backboard of the auger, and having a rearward wheel rota... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6726430 | Grain spreader A grain loading and spreading device has a tapered housing with a grain flow restrictor valve assembly that will cause a uniform discharge of grain around the perimeter of a lower discharge opening. The valve assembly has upper and lower cam elements on a downwardly... | 04/27/2004 |
| 5547331 | Method for loading bulk material into a cargo container with an aeration/vacuum liner pad system An air permeable pad to help load a bulk cargo into or unload a bulk cargo from a cargo container including a body and a hose. The body, in turn, includes a first, gas permeable layer and a second, gas impermeable layer. The two layers of the body are con... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5316429 | Bin loading and emptying of crops having a rounded rollable mass Rows of rectangular bins for crop storage have open tops along which an overhead shuttle carriage moves for filling the bins one at a time. An auger on the carriage removes the contents from the incoming conveyor belt for deposit in an assigned bin. An ar... | 05/31/1994 |
| 4721425 | Apparatus for conveying bulk material in silos The invention relates to an apparatus for supplying a silo with bulk material and for discharging the bulk material from the silo, using a clearing unit which can be raised and lowered in the silo, and which at the same time is mounted pivotably about the... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4645403 | Discharge installation for a silo A discharge installation to be used in a silo for bulk material in powdered or granular condition comprising a central column of interspaced annular collar plates surrounding a central discharge chute, subsequent collar plates merging into each other form... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4567920 | Force method of and apparatus for trickling siloed material from a silo A force method of and assembly for trickling rock material from a silo. The bottom part of a silo is provided with a vaulting element and a pressure force is generated in a vaulting chamber or closed space below the vaulting element. For optimum trickling... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4487542 | Gastight high-rise silos This invention relates to the draining of bulk materials which are not spontaneously flowable, from a high-rise silo in which the bulk material is fed from the top layer of the bulk material at any instant, into a central gravity shaft having a bottom ext... | 12/11/1984 |
| 4431360 | Container for the loading and transporting of goods A container body for highway trailers, ships or aircraft, for loading and transporting goods provides a conveyor belt on the floor of the body with a vertical partition that is movable with the conveyor as the goods are loaded into, or removed from the bo... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4284120 | Method and device for transfer of fiber materials transportable by liquids There is disclosed a process for the transfer of fiber material from one circuit of circulating liquid to another, where the fiber material is transported by circuits positioned at right angles to the axis of rotation of a rotary transfer or feed valve an... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4266902 | Transport container A transport container of conventional parallelepiped form is disclosed, wherein the container includes a perforated drum and a worm conveyor inside of the drum for loading and discharging bulk material into and out of the container. The drum and the worm ... | 05/12/1981 |
| 4220433 | Sweep auger drive system A grain bin loading and unloading system has a vertical auger located in the center of the bin, the vertical auger being in communication with a horizontal auger disposed beneath the floor of the bin. The novel sweep auger drive has a double row sprocket ... | 09/02/1980 |
| 4168937 | Ice rake with automatic leveling hoist An ice rake and hoist are disclosed. The ice rake is suspended over an ice storage bin by two pairs of cables, one pair on each side of the rake. The cables of each pair are joined together and connected to a chain which passes over a sprocket for connect... | 09/25/1979 |
| 4156486 | Apparatus and method for processing food material utilizing out-of-phase feeding to a treating chamber The food material to be processed is alternately transferred from two sources to an elongated treating chamber. The apparatus for carrying out the method includes rotary valve means employing two pocket areas, each pocket area including a plurality of poc... | 05/29/1979 |
| 4138021 | Ducted material handling device for top unloading of a storage receptacle A material handling device is disclosed for use in a material holding, or storage, receptacle. The device includes a vertically positioned discharge duct having spaced apertures therein with the bottom of the duct connected to a discharge access passage w... | 02/06/1979 |
| 4022335 | Spreading-unloading rotary sweep apparatus of the hole-forming sleeve type A reversible rotary sweep has a single railless trough-less contemporaneously reversible 16" OD horizontal long auger and a depending holeformer composed of a 191/2" OD depending short auger and a surrounding 21" ID concentric sleeve. In unloading, a subs... | 05/10/1977 |
| 4019452 | Can end feed mechanism A feed mechanism for can ends having curled, peripheral edge portions includes means for disposing a multiplicity of can ends in a stack, and gate means for providing underlying support for the ends disposed in said stacking means and for individually rel... | 04/26/1977 |
| 4018347 | Display cabinet A collecting system which may be used for a display cabinet, including an elongated frame at a first extremity or entrance of which are deposited packages which are to be removed from the other extremity or exit. The frame has a profiled shape, comprising... | 04/19/1977 |
| 3955691 | Apparatus for filling and discharging tower-shaped storage spaces Tower silos and similar tower-shaped storage spaces for solid material are filled and discharged by means of a device arranged vertically slidably on a hollow post and capable of rotating around its vertical axis. The device comprises distributing means, ... | 05/11/1976 |
