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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 |
| 8043420 | Liquid tank A fluid tank includes a tank main body that contains a fluid and a bubble removing device that is provided inside the main body and removes bubbles in the fluid. The main body includes a partition and a delivery port through which the fluid is fed to outside. The bu... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7985283 | System for de-aerating a hydraulic fluid in a transmission A system for at least partially de-aerating a hydraulic fluid in a transmission includes a plurality of transmission components, a first reservoir for receiving de-aerated hydraulic fluid, a first pump in communication with the first reservoir and operable to pump t... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7290607 | Device for the separation of the gas phase from a mixture of fluid/gas for use in hydrocarbons producing and injection wells An apparatus for separating the gaseous phase from a mixture of fluids used during the subsurface intervention in production or injection wells. The device includes a main pipe (T) provided externally with a helix (E) having a longitudinal opening (F) whose edge (B)... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7255728 | Apparatus and method for degassing liquids Apparatus and method for degassing liquids particularly cationic monomers. Fluid comprising liquid to be degassed together with sweep gas is admitted tangentially into a column (10) and forced down the column by a tubular baffle (16) which defines, wit... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7108785 | Blood conditioning device A blood conditioning device having a housing with a helical blood acceleration section which includes a helical flow path for impressing centrifugal forces on the entrained bubbles in the blood to concentrate them towards the center of the flow path, a bubble pick o... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7105044 | Fluid tank A fluid tank fluid is provided which includes a bubble removing device provided therein to remove bubbles from the fluid. The bubble removing device includes a cyclone chamber for generating a swirling current in the fluid flowing therethrough to separate bubbles fr... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7025750 | Set for blood processing A tubular medical set as main blood flow tubing, a connected, flexible branch tube, a flow restriction device to suppress pressure pulses. The device is positioned to control flow through the branch tube. The flow restriction device permits substantially free, unhin... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6481499 | Well-bottom gas separator This is a high-efficiency item of equipment, for example for a well bottom for separating out gas from a liquid/gas mixture, based on the effects of flows of the cascade and segregated types. It consists basically of a sedimentation vessel whose lateral s... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6322616 | Gas separator for an oil well production line A gas separator connectable between the seating nipple/pump and the mud anchor of a well production line takes advantage of gravitational, shear and centrifugal forces to detrain gas from the formation fluid. An outer cylindrical tube is concentrically se... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6026655 | Liquid accumulator with inlet tube An accumulator for a refrigeration system includes a housing having a cylindrical sidewall and upper and lower end walls. Inlet and outlet tubes are provided in the housing for directing refrigerant into and out of the accumulator. The inlet tube includes... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5902378 | Continuous flow downhole gas separator for processing cavity pumps The efficiency of progressing cavity pumps is drastically reduced if the liquid being pumped contains large volumes of gas. To alleviate this problem a gas separator is provided which can be attached to the suction of a downhole pump to remove gas from th... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5849065 | Device for separating gas bubbles from fluids, in particular blood A device for separating gas bubbles out of medical fluids, in particular blood, has a substantially cylindrical chamber, an inlet connection arranged in the longitudinal direction of the chamber, an outlet connection and a flow-guide member attached to th... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5827357 | Separator and method for separating components of pressurized drilling fluid returns The separator includes a vertical cylindrical pressure vessel having elliptical top and bottom heads. A mechanical device, referred to as a vortex tube cluster of vertical tubes, is mounted in the upper section of the vessel chamber, spaced above the bott... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5676717 | Separator tank An apparatus for primary air/oil separation for an oil-flooded air compressor, the apparatus includes a tank having a sidewall, a bottom end and a top end. The sidewall and ends define a tank separation chamber. The apparatus further includes a flow condu... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5514206 | Air/gas separator device A gas/air or bubble separator is disclosed, particularly for use with supplying air/gas or bubble free coating liquid to a paper coater. The separator includes three cast elements containing three formed chambers, a distribution chamber at the top of the ... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5000766 | Suction system gas separator from fluid A compact and efficient separator for removing both entrained bubbles and dissolved gases from fluid. Fluid containing gases is introduced tangentially into a vortex flow chamber which is disposed at the suction-side of a pump. The fluid, which is strippe... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4698077 | Separating apparatus The invention relates to an apparatus for the separation of edge trimmings, in connection with a pulper. The upper portion of the jacket of the pulper (1) serves as a jacket of a first cyclone (5), a second cyclone (8) opposite in direction being provided... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4662908 | Device for removing bubbles from liquid A liquid is introduced tangentially into a cylindrical body through a plurality of equiangularly spaced inlet ports disposed on the cylindrical body adjacent to a closed end thereof. Thus, the liquid is swirled in the cylindrical body and bubbles in the l... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4541850 | Slurry input device An apparatus for injecting a slurry containing solids and entrapped air in a fluid carrier into a tank filled with fluid by injecting the slurry into a chamber in a manner to form a vortex so that the solids and fluids are centrifugally forced to the outs... | 09/17/1985 |
