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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 |
| 7063576 | L-shaped bulb socket Each terminal (3) of a bulb socket (1) has a power-supplying tab (31) and a bulb connecting portion (32) that are integral with one another. The bulb connecting portion (32) is on an extension of the power-supplying tab (31)... | 06/20/2006 |
| 6926547 | Electrical connector An arc quenching electrical connector has a male pin terminal which inserts longitudinally into a receptacle or terminal having a gassing wall engaged concentrically about the receptacle. During “hot unplugging” of the electrical connector, an arc is carried bet... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6824409 | Holder for lamps with a two-pin cap A lamp holder is provided comprising a housing, a contact pin retainer arranged within the housing, a rotary member rotatably mounted in the housing, and a fastener for fastening the rotary member to the housing. The contact pin retainer is adapted to receive a lamp... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6799983 | Electrical connector with static discharge feature An electrical connector with a static discharge feature is disclosed. More particularly, the electrical connector includes a connector housing made of an electrically insulating material, at least one terminal in the connector housing, the terminal having a cable co... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6746259 | CRT socket The invention aims to provide an effectively miniaturized CRT socket capable of assuring large withstanding discharge voltage difference between the focus pins of the CRT socket, unifying the voltage just before discharge, and simplifying the structure of the high v... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6570331 | CRT socket A CRT socket includes interfitting vertical walls between first and second focusing pins. The presence of low dielectric constant air between the interfitted walls prevents the occurrence of corona currents between the two focusing terminal pins of a doub... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6544059 | Connector for discharge lamps, especially for a motor vehicle A connector for a motor vehicle discharge lamp has at least two electrical contacts for supplying the high tension and low tension electrodes of the lamp. In the absence of a lamp, when the connector is connected to a power supply module, arcing can occur... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6528932 | CRT socket with insulating interfit between focus and signal contacts A CRT socket has a partition wall for partitioning a focus contact storing chamber and a base insertion hole which has sufficient strength, while maintaining a creepage distance between a focus contact and a signal contact sufficient to avoid arcing. The ... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6345997 | CRT receiving socket having insulation rib and monitor having the same A cathode ray tube (CRT) receiving socket includes a body having a plurality of connection holes for receiving the pins of a CRT, a plurality of conductive pins protruding from the body in a certain direction for connection to a printed circuit board (PCB... | 02/12/2002 |
| 5499935 | RF shielded I/O connector An electrical device for propagating an electrical signal which emits radio frequency electromagnetic energy, the electrical device having a medium for propagating the electrical signal and a radio frequency electromagnetic energy absorbing material, radi... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5144189 | Automotive high voltage discharge lighting system and assembly The assembly of a headlight and a connector has in the headlight an electric discharge lamp with a lamp cap and contacts at this lamp cap, which cap is attached by a fixing member to a reflector. The headlight has beside the lamp cap a contact member. The... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5088939 | Electrical assemblies An electrical connector assembly has several sockets mounted in apertures in a ground plane. Each socket has a metal tube supporting wires that engage the surface of a pin inserted in the socket. Each socket is filtered by means a tubular capacitor one el... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5059855 | Discharge lamp base construction A discharge lamp has a lamp assembly including a discharge lamp unit with a pair of lamp leads extending therefrom, and a base assembly including a pair of base leads electrically connected to the pair of lamp leads and mechanically supporting the lamp un... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5007850 | Cathode ray tube socket having an improved high voltage discharge housing In a cathode ray tube socket which is provided with a socket body having a plurality of contacts disposed in a circle and a high voltage discharge gap housing provided on one side of the socket body, there are provided along the inside surface of both a c... | 04/16/1991 |
| 4960385 | Cathode-ray tube socket A cathode-ray tube socket comprising a terminal board including a plurality of radial grooves and a circular groove disposed at the middle portion of the radial grooves and cutting across the radial grooves, the circular groove having a plurality of proje... | 10/02/1990 |
| 4822301 | CRT socket A contact plate is provided in obliquely opposing relation to a flange part of a high-voltage side discharge electrode disposed in a high-voltage chamber of a CRT socket. A movable urging member is movable into and away from a place where the urging membe... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4754195 | High-pressure discharge lamp, and method of its manufacture To improve the high-voltage flash-over characteristics of high-pressure dharge lamps (1), and especially to prevent flash-over between terminal leads emanating from the lamp bulb and extending into a lamp base (14), the lamp base which is formed with a c... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4673238 | One-piece wrap-around clamping shell for cigar lighter A one-piece clamping shell for electric cigar lighters, which comprises a rolled sheet-metal body of tubular configuration, having open ends and a reverse-bend clinched seam extending longitudinally between its ends. At one of its ends the body has a radi... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4573755 | Spark gap device for a cathode ray tube socket This invention relates to a spark gap device which provides overvoltage protection; that is, if a voltage above a predetermined value is applied to a contact of a cathode ray tube socket, such voltage is dissipated to ground to thereby protect circuitry c... | 03/04/1986 |
| 4542316 | Discharge lamps The invention relates to a single ended discharge lamp, such as a CID or CSI lamp having a bi-pin base. The base is such as to fit a socket suitable for lamps such as tungsten halogen filament lamps for which lower voltages are used and is adapted to make... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4464004 | Separable electric connector module with gas-actuated piston A separable connector module of the fault-actuated piston type comprises an aluminum container tube, a bore contact member within the container tube, and a piston for actuating the bore contact member in response to closing on a fault. The piston is prima... | 08/07/1984 |
| 4253717 | CRT Socket There is disclosed a new and improved socket for making electrical connections to the pins on the neck of a cathode ray tube. The improvement includes a plurality of first conductive contacts which are arranged to engage the pins of the cathode ray tube a... | 03/03/1981 |
| 4216406 | Electric lamp wherein the terminal socket cap contains a foamed cap cement which functions to prevent explosions and/or burning a hole through the cap An improved electric lamp of the type wherein a transparent bulb is sealed to a terminal socket cap and contains a foamed cap cement which substantially fills the interior of said terminal cap. The foamed cap cement contains a small amount of a halogen-co... | 08/05/1980 |
| 4199215 | Tube socket with novel grounding means for high voltage terminals The tube socket is especially adapted for use with a longitudinal extending cathode ray tube of the type having one or more high voltage pins and a plurality of relatively low voltage pins. The socket provides structure for spark gap grounding of the high... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4186432 | Lamp for use in subterranean applications A lamp for use in subterranean galleries such as mines in which the cold-cathode discharge tube is received in a housing which, in turn, is removably mounted in a receptacle and is held in place by a ring clamping a flange of the housing against a flange ... | 01/29/1980 |
| 4111507 | Apparatus for high voltage conditioning cathode ray tubes Apparatus for high voltage conditioning cathode ray tubes having internal electrodes connected to external base pins includes a container having a pair of electrical contact members therein and passing therethrough to a high voltage potential source and t... | 09/05/1978 |
| 4075531 | Base-socket system with arc prevention means An axially compact and highly arc protective base-socket system for use with a color television picture tube having a narrow neck terminated by a cylindrical coaxial tubulation. The tubulation is surrounded by a number of axially extending electrically co... | 02/21/1978 |
| 4050763 | Base and socket means for an electron tube Electrical connective means are provided for effecting the external connections to a multi-element electron tube having a closure portion wherein the sealed exhaust tubulation has a conductive lead extending therefrom. The connective means includes a base... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4037913 | Printed circuit jack A miniature telephone jack with a molded housing especially adapted for use on printed circuit boards in which spring metal contacts grasp an inserted plug at the proper locations along its length with balanced, firm forces even though the contacts are al... | 07/26/1977 |
| 4014601 | Tube socket and method of using same A socket for mounting a cathode ray tube having a plurality of conductive contact elements disposed about the neck thereof comprises a housing defining a central aperture extending therethrough for receipt of the tube neck, spaced conductive contacts moun... | 03/29/1977 |
| 3958854 | Spark gap apparatus Spark gap apparatus is provided wherein a wafer of electrical conducting material is affixed to a wafer of electrical insulating material and spaced from a circular array of circular pins of an electron discharge device to provide a spark gap intermediate... | 05/25/1976 |
