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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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Inventor: Ellen O. Aeling


Address: St. Paul, MN
No. of patents: 8
Last patent issue date: 01/27/2009

NumberTitleIssue Date
7481563LED backlight
An LED backlight assembly is disclosed. The assembly includes a housing having a plurality of internal surfaces. At least one of the internal surfaces is a light emission surface and an opposing surface is a reflective surface. An optical film is disposed between th...
01/27/2009
7198372Dual display
A dual display system includes a graphic article providing a first display in a first lighting condition (such as daylight) and a projection system providing a second display in a second lighting condition (such as nighttime). In an exemplary embodiment, the graphic...
04/03/2007
6767609Perforated film constructions for backlit signs
The present invention provides perforated film constructions, sign faces including the film constructions, and signs including the sign faces, all of which are capable of having one appearance under light ambient lighting conditions, and another appearance when back...
07/27/2004
6641880Signage having films to reduce power consumption and improve luminance uniformity and method for using same
A lighted sign housing is provided with a diffuse reflective film that is selected based on its reflectivity and luminance uniformity in order to reduce power consumption required for a given luminance while also increasing luminance uniformity. A method ...
11/04/2003
6598328Sign faces having reflective films and methods of using same
A lighted sign housing is provided having a sign face with both light-transmissive portions and light-blocking portions; and a reflective film applied to at least a portion of the light-blocking portions toward the interior of the sign housing. A method o...
07/29/2003
6441114Adhesives for use on fluorine-containing or polycarbonate surfaces
Adhesives useful in applying articles, such as tapes, labels, signs, decals, emblems, car moldings, protective or optical films, etc., to surfaces to which articles normally do not adhere well, such as surfaces containing fluorine and polycarbonate, for e...
08/27/2002
6416201Illuminated sign with lamp masks for uniform illumination
An illuminated sign system provides uniform illumination over the lamp face by using partially transmissive lamp masks located between the lamps and the sign face. The sign face itself also diffusely reflects at least a majority of light incident on its s...
07/09/2002
5144051Branched alkoxyphenyl iodonium salt photoinitiators
Disclosed are C6 to C11 branched chain alkoxy monosubstituted diaryl iodonium salts, such as [4-(2-ethylhexyloxy)phenyl]phenyliodonium hexafluoroantimonate. These diaryl iodonium salts are useful as photoinitiators for epoxy containi...
09/01/1992
 
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