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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 |
| 8123497 | Apparatus for compressing and storing oxygen enriched gas A multiple-stage gas compressor is disclosed by this application. The compressor has a plurality of pistons, including at least one wobble piston assembly and at least one cylinder piston assembly for compressing pressurized gas from the at least one wobble piston. ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 7244107 | Home oxygen-compression apparatus An oxygen-compression apparatus has a driving device, multiple rotating wheels, multiple driving rings, multiple rocking cylinders and multiple connecting hoses. The driving device has a driving shaft with a central axis. The rotating wheels are eccentrically attach... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7214039 | Integrated ratio pump and check valve apparatus A pump apparatus is provided which comprises a plurality of displacement pumps each connected to a check valve apparatus. The displacement pumps each comprises a reciprocating piston within a housing having an interior wall spaced apart from the piston. The check va... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7189320 | Pump, pump for liquid chromatography, and liquid chromatography apparatus The invention provides a pump for liquid chromatography excellent in feeding liquid stably at an extremely low flow rate and in discharging bubbles at startup. In a pump for liquid chromatography including a cylinder and a plunger that reciprocates in the cyl... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7178978 | Fluid mixing apparatus and method This invention relates to devices, methods, and systems for mixing materials, and in particular provides linkages and containers such as syringes in operative arrangement such that actuation of the linkages can move material from one container to another thereby mix... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7178592 | Closed loop multiphase underbalanced drilling process The present invention provides apparatus and methods for handling fluids returning from a well. The fluids are introduced into a separator and a separated gas stream is recovered or recycled. The gas stream may comprise more than one phase. The separated gas stream ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7063785 | Pump for liquid chromatography The invention provides a pump for liquid chromatography excellent in feeding liquid stably at an extremely low flow rate with high accuracy and in discharging bubbles at startup. At startup, a first plunger feeds solvent at a large flow rate to discharge bubb... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7063513 | Liquid chromatograph pump with dual cylinders and dual plungers In a pump for feeding a liquid for chromatography, first and second plungers form first and second volumes respectively together with first and second chambers, the first plunger is prevented from changing the first volume sufficiently for feeding the liquid between... | 06/20/2006 |
| 6997683 | High pressure reciprocating pump and control of the same Pumping for chromatograph applications calls for constant flow at high pressures and for accurate control of liquid composition. A two-cylinder pump, and associated controls provide an accurate, fixed flow rate. During the initial portion of the pumping stroke of a ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6027312 | Hydraulic pressure supply pump with simultaneous directly actuated plungers A pump and associated method including the steps of pre-metering successive quantities of fuel from a reservoir to a positive displacement transfer pump, then actuating the transfer pump to raise the pressure of the successive quantities of fuel by at lea... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5888054 | Fuel pump having dual profile cam ring for driving low and high pressure reciprocating plungers A novel fuel pump arrangement comprises cam driven low and high pressure reciprocating plunger pump units. The fuel pump has rotary drive means, a high pressure pump with a pump body which defines a pumping chamber with an annular arrangement of a plurali... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5688110 | Fuel pump arrangement having cam driven low and high pressure reciprocating plunger pump units A novel fuel pump arrangement comprises cam driven low and high pressure reciprocating plunger pump units. The fuel pump has rotary drive means, a high pressure pump with a pump body which defines a pumping chamber with an annular arrangement of a plurali... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5078580 | Plural-stage gas compressor The compressor, of the reciprocating-piston type is actuated by a camshaft confined in a small, compact frame. Cams translate cross-heads which are slidably guided within the frame, and which are threadedly coupled to depending stubs of the pistons. A bol... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5020973 | Air compressor shroud A V-twin, two-stage compressor has valve plates disposed between the head and cylinder of each stage and mounting free-floating flexible read intake and exhaust valves therein. The flexible reeds are movably captured between the floors of respective reed ... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4924671 | Controlled series high-pressure intensifiers for hydraulic press cylinded circuit For the production and exact control and regulation of very high pressures, in particular for actuating a press, two pressure intensifiers are provided which each have a differential piston. The second pressure intensifier is connected via a shutoff valve... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4915594 | Improved compressor crankshaft A V-twin, two stage compressor has valve plates disposed between the head and cylinder of each stage and mounting free-floating flexible reed intake and exhaust valves therein. The flexible reeds are movably captured between the floors of respective reed ... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4883409 | Pumping apparatus for delivering liquid at high pressure A pumping apparatus for delivering liquid at a high pressure, in particular for use in liquid chromatography, comprises two pistons (10, 20) which reciprocate in pump chambers (7,18), respectively. The output of the first pump chamber (7) is connected via... | 11/28/1989 |
| 4874297 | Radial pump In a valveless pump, a pump body, having a central chamber, is provided with a radially disposed array of pistons movable toward and away from the axis of the pump body. Cylinder heads cooperate with the pistons in controlling fluid movement through the p... | 10/17/1989 |
| 4854825 | Multi-stage vacuum pump A vacuum pump includes two pairs of piston and cylinder assemblies mounted on opposite sides of a crankshaft in a common plane with the gas inlets for the first and second cylinders of a first pair of piston and cylinder assemblies being connected to the ... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4810168 | Low pulsation pump device A low pulsation pump device has a pulse motor, two plungers adapted to be driven by the pulse motor, a pressure sensor disposed on the output side of the plungers, a storage for storing values of pressures detected by the pressure sensor during each of a ... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4808077 | Pulsationless duplex plunger pump and control method thereof Velocity control of two plungers provided in a pulsationless duplex plunger pump is effected by detecting pressure of a resultant discharge from the two plungers and positions of the plungers, and correcting sequentially a velocity instruction of the each... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4801250 | Valve structure for a compressor A V-twin, two-stage compressor has valve plates disposed between the head and cylinder of each stage and mounting free-floating flexible reed intake and exhaust valves therein. The flexible reeds are movably captured between the floors of respective reed ... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4797207 | Apparatus for controlling a pump to account for compressibility of liquids in obtaining steady flow There is disclosed herein an apparatus and method for controlling a dual piston pump for a liquid chromatography system so as to pump a flow of solvent through the liquid chromatography column at a constant flow rate and with a solvent composition which i... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4761118 | Positive displacement hydraulic-drive reciprocating compressor The invention disclosed relates to the art field embracing positive displacement reciprocating compressors of the type featuring hydraulic drive, and sets out to simplify the construction of such units, rendering them more functional at the same time. Fou... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4681513 | Two-stage pump assembly An accurately controllable two-stage pump assembly comprising two plunger pumps connected in series. The suction port of the outlet pump A is connected to the discharge port of the inlet pump B, so that the discharge port of the outlet pump A and the suct... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4643651 | Constant flow rate liquid pumping system The present invention is a liquid pumping system with constant flow rate. The system contains at least one first cylinder means and reciprocating piston means defining a first pumping capacity (V1), at least one second pumping unit including cy... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4600365 | Displacement pump for low-pulsation delivery of a liquid A low-pulsation displacement pump comprises two series-connected cylinders which are controlled by valves so that the delivery takes place only in one direction. The pistons of the cylinders are controlled through cams which are driven jointly at a consta... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4597717 | Two-stage fluid pump Disclosed herein is a two-stage fluid pump comprising a base member defining a sump, a first fluid pumping unit including a pumping piston and supply and discharge passages, a second fluid pumping unit including a pumping piston and supply and discharge p... | 07/01/1986 |
| 4556367 | Solvent delivery system A solvent delivery system which provides a substantially uniform flow includes two synchronized pistons adapted to serially transport successive solvent compositions from one piston to the other prior to delivery to a chromatography column.... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4552513 | Multiple piston pump control A multiple piston assembly pump of the kind which provides an overlap between the flow output of the piston assemblies during a portion of the strokes of the piston assemblies incorporates a method and apparatus for reducing pulsations in the flow during ... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4516913 | Multistage drum compressor A multistage drum compressor has its stage cylinders arranged in ascending order around the axis of a shaft which operates the various stage pistons and which rotates in a direction opposed to the order of the stages, whereby the stage pistons are actuate... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4508490 | Two stage manual air pump A hand pump that is operable selectively as a large volume low pressure air ump or a smaller volume higher pressure pump has a small diameter cylinder reciprocable in a large diameter cylinder and carrying a large diameter plunger and a small diameter plun... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4445484 | Mechanical fuel injection devices, mainly for diesel engines A mechanical fuel injection device having a pumping piston and a pressure chamber ahead of the piston and connected to at least one injector by means of a linking channel. A slide valve is fitted to slide in a bore the central part of which crosses the li... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4389163 | Pressure booster system for fluids A pressure booster system for fluids using one or more injectors for delivering a relatively low pressure output flow of fluid. A fluid accumulator receives the output from one or more injectors. A detector reveals any fluid mass change in the accumulator... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4352636 | Dual piston pump A pump for producing a substantially smooth and continuous outflow of liquid at relatively high pressure has two piston assemblies flow connected in series. The first piston assembly includes a pressure piston having a long suction stroke and a relatively... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4349321 | Liquid dispensing systems A valve chamber connected to the inlet of a ram pump has an inlet connected to a source of sludge and a substantially smaller inlet connected to the outlet of a metering pump. A valve seat in the valve chamber has a ball resting freely thereon, and an ope... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4333977 | Wear-resistant article A wear-resistant and chemically-inert article made from a sintered mixture of polytetrafluoroethylene, graphite fibers, and fluorinated graphite.... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4245963 | Pump A pump for precise, smooth delivery of liquid, particularly in liquid chromatography systems, featuring two liquid displacement elements mounted for reciprocating movement in chambers connected in series with two check valves, one displacement element ser... | 01/20/1981 |
| 4236877 | Highly accurate low volume metering pump Disclosed is a dual pump with priming reservoir assembly for dispensing a fluid chemical at a low flow rate into a substance with which the fluids is to be mixed. It includes adjacent primary and secondary piston-type pumps and a separation chamber or pri... | 12/02/1980 |
| 4165205 | Multi-stage pump A multi-stage pumping assembly comprising a plurality of pumping units arranged end to end in an elongate cylindrical housing. Each pumping unit comprises a solenoid which when energized causes a pumping piston to retract downwardly on its intake stroke, ... | 08/21/1979 |
