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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 |
| 7387652 | Emergency bio-filter A portable filter assembly for providing filtered air to an enclosed space includes a housing having an exhaust port connected to the enclosed space, an internal air intake port connected to the enclosed space, and an external air intake port connected to the outsid... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7311741 | Device for separating dust and dirt out of flowing media The invention describes a device for separating dust and dirt out of flowing media. A curved flow path (1) is imposed on the flow (21), and heavy foreign bodies are separated out of the main flow by centrifugal force. The partial stream required to car... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7291193 | Cyclone dust collector and vacuum cleaner therewith A cyclone dust collector and a vacuum cleaner having the same. The cyclone dust collector has a cyclone body shaped to have a relatively wider upper portion and a relatively narrower lower portion and also has a suction port and a discharge port, a grill member conn... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7273513 | Acid gas removal The use of turbulent contactors to simultaneously absorb selected acid gas components from a gas stream and flash off hydrocarbons entrained in a liquid stream which include a solvent or reagent for the selected gas component. In particular, the method comprises fee... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7150860 | Process and apparatus for quick feed contacting with immediate vapor disengagement An apparatus and process in which a catalyst nozzle and a feed nozzle are joined together at a joint in a reactor vessel that contains a disengaging transport conduit in communication with a separator. An inlet to the transport conduit is disposed vertically higher ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 6957740 | Cyclone separator with central built-in element A cyclone separator (1) has a vertically extending housing (2) with an upper housing segment (3). A separator (6) with a separator wheel is located in the upper housing segment along with a carrier gas/product inlet (7), and a carr... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6514322 | System for separating an entrained immiscible liquid component from a wet gas stream A system for separating an entrained immiscible liquid component from a wet gas stream, the system including a vessel having an interior in communication with a wet gas inlet, a gas outlet and a liquid outlet, at least one vortex tube supported within the... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6217636 | Transpirated wall aerosol collection system and method A transpirated wall aerosol collection system includes a collector operable to receive a gas flow containing particulate matter. The system also includes a porous wall having a first surface and a second surface. The porous wall is operable to transpire a... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6019822 | Apparatus for air dehumidification having a unitary casing for a cyclone separator, a primary filter, a secondary filter, and a separation membrane element An air dehumidifying apparatus having a cyclone separator, a primary filter, a secondary filter, and a separation membrane element made of a special high polymer for passing steam smoothly and hardly passing air. The elements of the apparatus are disposed... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5681372 | Oil reservoir vent system with oil separator and method thereof A device and method for separating oil from the vent of an oil reservoir, such as a sump of an oil-free compressor, includes a suction pump for drawing in air from the oil reservoir through a first venting line and delivering the air through a second vent... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5380498 | Apparatus for purification of waste gases An apparatus provides purification of waste gases by adding particles of reagent and/or absorbent, which react with the pollutants in the waste gases, to the gases, and by introducing the gases into a wetting reactor for activating the reagent or absorben... | 01/10/1995 |
| 4409008 | Dust disposal cyclones A cyclone with a tangential peripheral inlet and a central axial outlet is improved as to efficiency by inducting air between the inlet and the outlet. The inducted air is diverted by a baffle that temporarily separates it from the dust-laden inlet air, t... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4381930 | Cyclone separator for separating particulate material, in particular seed, from an air flow In a centrifugal separator, in particular for separating light materials, such as grass seed, from an air flow, a whirl chamber is provided between a circumferential wall of the separator casing and a radially inner filter consisting of a louvred shell im... | 05/03/1983 |
| 4375386 | Cyclonic entrainment separator for evaporator A vacuum evaporator is provided with an integral cyclonic-type entrainment separator at the top of the evaporator vapor body which comprises a helical spin plate for imparting a centrifugal action to the vapor and entrained liquid rising from the boiling ... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4278452 | Cyclone separator Cyclone separator for separating solid particles from particle laden gas having an outlet pipe assembly which includes a pair of co-axial outlet pipes spaced radially apart from each other to form an annular passage therebetween. The passage is connected ... | 07/14/1981 |
| 4260401 | Regenerative cyclone-type air/particulate concentrator and collector A cyclone-type particulate collector and concentrator is provided wherein the outlet tube is provided with a conical concentrator having its sidewalls formed of a plurality of tapered, spaced, nested, generally U-shaped and cross-section vaned members bet... | 04/07/1981 |
| 4257786 | Cyclone separator Cyclone separator for separating solid particles from particle laden gas having an outlet pipe assembly which includes a pair of co-axial outlet pipes radially spaced apart from each other to form an annular passage therebetween. A plurality of accelerati... | 03/24/1981 |
| 4172710 | Vacuum cleaner A vacuum cleaner comprising a first whirl chamber for receiving dust-laden air and separating heavy and light dust particles therefrom, a second whirl chamber communicating at its inlet end with said first whirl chamber for receiving air therefrom and con... | 10/30/1979 |
| 4017275 | Centrifugal separator An improved type of centrifugal separator for separating liquids such as oil and/or water from a mixture of gas and liquid. It consists of an upright cylindrical shell divided by transverse dividers into three chambers. The mixture of gas and liquid is in... | 04/12/1977 |
