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Patent No. 5678617

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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Examiner: Lee, Gilbert


Primary examiner statistics: 23 patents; average approval time: N/A
Assistant examiner statistics: 73 patents; average approval time: 80 days

Patents as Primary Examiner

Patent No. Patent Title:
8186688 Shaft sealing device
8181972 Sealing material for dovetail groove and vacuum gate valve provid...
8181969 Lubrication blocking seal
8181970 Unitized bi-directional seal assembly
8177237 Gastight piston ring arrangement
8177238 System and method of a flange seal ring
8167313 Seal member, assembly and method
8157269 Gasket for sealing multiple fluids
8157267 Free-floating gas seal
8128097 Mechanical seal
8128099 Gasket
8128100 Laminate air seal for a gas turbine engine
8123229 Lip type seal
8123231 Seal
8104771 Oil-control ring for an internal combustion engine
8100410 Sealing ring interposed between the block and the cylinder head o...
8100409 Metallic cylinder head gasket
8100408 Sealing element
8100407 Packing cartridges and pressure-dampening elements for plunger-ty...
8100405 System and method for providing compliant rotating seals
8099807 Storable foot section for a bed
8100404 Leaf seal arrangement
8100411 Cylinder head gasket

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
8162327 Metal seals for weld-deformed high temperature pneumatic ducting ...
8032959 Bed sheet attachment system and methods
8025297 Bellows with alternating layers of high and low compliance materi...
8011674 Metal laminate gasket
8011666 Dynamic brush seal
7494129 Piston ring
7490835 At least substantially metallic cylinder head gasket
7484256 Fire retardant cover for mattresses
7464968 Low permeability elastic sealing ring
7461420 Articulating bed
7458587 Sealing joint with laminated internal structure for very high tem...
7455300 Gasket ring with sharp peaks
7431307 Over center high deflection pressure energizing low leakage seal
7431303 Heat conducting seal
7430773 Device to facilitate controlled rotation of the cervical spine
7428764 Discrete orthoganol support system
7425003 Over center high deflection pressure energizing low leakage seal
7422218 Flat gasket and process for the production of a flat gasket
7413195 Spherical annular seal member
7413194 Pressure balanced annular seal
7410174 Restraining mechanical joint gasket for ductile iron pipe
7389991 Leakage seal for gas path of gas turbine
7386897 Bedding or seating product made with coil springs having unknotte...
7387301 Brush seal for sealing a gap between a rotor and a stator
7377521 Process for fabricating a metallic sheet with at least one integr...
7377520 Cylinder head gasket
7374176 Laser welded multi-layered steel gasket assembly
7370864 Balanced mechanical seal assembly
7370866 Sleeve element having a biasable end region, apparatus including ...
7367567 Low leakage finger seal
7364165 Shaft seal mechanism
7360768 Intake gasket
7341256 Seal ring
7322579 Spline shaft seal assembly
7314219 Shaft seal assembly
7311309 Cylinder head gasket
7311307 Seal seat assembly with specialized features
7306237 Sealing material for ant groove
7306232 Multipart oil wiping ring for pistons of internal combustion engi...
7296802 Boot for covering ball joint
 
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