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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 |
| 4326299 | Soccer cuff A protective cuff for the ankle has a padded cover which is secured about the ankle. An elastic cover is positioned over the padded cover to protect the ankle, achilles tendon and foot from injury during athletic endeavor.... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326300 | Belt package with temporarily secured detachable belt end A belt package for a surgical gown is disclosed in which a belt is fan-folded within a tubular belt support and one belt end is folded over and temporarily attached to the front of the belt support. The folded over belt end includes a line of weakness sit... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326301 | Collapsible sunshade A sunshade has ribs which emanate from a hub and are connected intermediate their ends to struts which are in turn connected to a center sleeve. When the sleeve is remote from the hub, the ribs and struts lie alongside each other in a collapsed position i... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326302 | Underpants Underpants suitable for use by male persons, have a pouch for holding a fluid-absorbing pad, and a fly opening. The latter makes the underpants more acceptable to men and in some cases appears to give psychological help for reducing incontinence. The pouc... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326303 | Protective headgear Protective headgear comprising, a relatively rigid shell for covering the wearer's head. The headgear has a bumper for the shell comprising, a flexible cover attached to a front of the shell adjacent a lower front edge of the shell, with the cover having ... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326304 | Heart valve with pivoted occluder A heart valve has an elliptical occluder mounted for pivoting in an annular heart valve body with a circular passageway between an open position to allow blood flow through the passageway and a closed position to block blood flow. A pair of ears extend fr... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326305 | Method for making artifacts usable in vivo and a artifacts made by said method An artifact usable in-vivo in general or buccal surgery of the type in which a metallic armature is covered with a coating layer of a biocompatible compound. The compound is insulating, refractory, amorphous and non porous, and the thickness of the coatin... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326306 | Intraocular lens and manipulating tool therefor The invention contemplates improved techniques for making lens implants for use in ophthalmological surgery, the lens being a replacement for a cataract-clouded natural lens. The lens of the invention is particularly adapted for posterior-chamber implanta... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326307 | Releasable toilet seat clamp A clamp is provided for detachably securing a toilet seat to a toilet bowl. A spherically headed bolt is securely bolted into each of the holes in the flange portion of the rear of the upper part of the bowl so that the spherical head of the post extends ... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326308 | Hygienic device providing sitz bath, shower, and douche An apparatus usable with conventional toilet structures, said apparatus of the type designed for providing sitz bath, sitz shower, and other such treatments of the general peri-anal area. A conduit means preferably extends vertically through an aperture formed... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326309 | Bedding device An article of furniture characterized by use of heavyweight foam rubber material for the major structural components thereof, combined with a flat base supporting an upstanding tubular frame member. The flat base supports the bottom of the article and the... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326310 | Mattress pad A mattress pad having a porous aluminum silicone layer for reflection and retention of body heat.... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326311 | Self-releasing locking unit for an inner spring assembly An improved self-releasing locking unit, such as a self-releasing locking edge support, in an inner spring assembly wherein the locking unit can be employed to secure the inner spring assembly in a compressed condition during the covering of same, and whi... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326312 | Single leg mooring terminal A single leg mooring terminal is described, of the type which includes a buoy assembly extending from the sea floor to the sea surface to moor a tanker vessel, and a separate fluid conduit extending at an upward incline to the vessel for carrying oil to o... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326313 | Method of making footwear A method of making an article of footwear includes attaching a connecting strip to the peripheral lower edge portion of a pre-formed upper so that the connecting strip surrounds the upper. The connecting strip has a profiled section providing a projecting... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326314 | Electrically driven hand-held apparatus for body care, in particular a toothbrush or massage apparatus An electrically driven hand-held apparatus for body care, such as a toothbrush, operates by means of a rotating motor. An eccentric pin is driven by the motor and engages in a longitudinal slot defined by a fork which is secured to an instrument holder an... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326315 | Film cleaner A used roll of photostatic film is guided through a series of bunny brushes and vacuum nozzles to reclaim the film. The brushes pick particles from the film. The vacuum nozzles, connected to a blower, remove the particles from the brush. The reclaimed fil... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326316 | Hot stick rotary brush for cleaning aerial conductors A device for cleaning the surface of aerial conductors comprises a rotary brush having a circumferential groove, a fluid- powered motor for driving the brush rotationally, and a J-hook hanger guide one end of which is secured to the power drive housing an... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326317 | Decontamination apparatus The decontamination apparatus comprises a rotatable hone capable of being inserted into a heat exchange tube of a steam generator for removing contamination from the inside of the heat exchange tubes. The apparatus also comprises means for advancing and r... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326318 | Electrode-active oxygen monitor A method of determining the oxygen partial pressure in an atmosphere at a known temperature, in which the magnitude of a critical potential equal and opposite to the free energy of formation of an oxide of a metal such as palladium in contact with the atm... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326319 | Slide fastener with improved end connections An improved device for fastening a separable zipper includes specially adapted terminals disposed at the respective ends of opposed rows of zipper teeth and a specially adapted slider supported by one of terminals. The slider is provided with an annular d... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326320 | Lever-operable fastener for a shoe A tensioning lever is mounted on one part of the shoe. A tension loop is mounted on another part of the shoe and adapted to be hooked into the tensioning lever. The tensioning lever can be moved along a rack to tension the fastener and is restrained by re... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326321 | Expanding sleeve for wrist band connector There is provided a safety sleeve and retainer of thin tubing which is of a size to provide a snug fit with the outer diameter of a pivot pin post as used with a watch band or strap. The sleeve is formed with at least a portion made with a tubular configu... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326322 | Beaming machine A beaming machine (beamer) suitable to run any common width beam for Raschel-type knitting machines, having three beams or heads with individual traverse settings so that different yarn end counts can be simultaneously wound on each beam. Uniform yarn ten... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326323 | Crankshaft milling machine Each of two tools is used in a sequence of operations to machine respective cylindrical portions of a multiple-crank crankshaft and the crankweb side faces adjoining said cylindrical portion. To permit an optimum utilization of the two tools and to ensure... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326324 | Manufacture of electric light sources In apparatus for and a method of sealing mounts to fluorescent lamp tubes on horizontal sealing machines each sealing head has a mount holding member pivotable between a mount sealing position in which it is coaxial with the lamp tube and a mount loading ... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326325 | Method and apparatus for deflashing molded recorded discs The flash is removed from a freshly molded recorded disc by first bringing a knife against the edge of the disc and rotating the disc about its center to remove the major portion of the flash. A rotary cutter is then brought into contact with the edge of ... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326326 | Method of making metal golf club head An integral stainless steel golf club head having a lead insert positioned directly behind the center of the intended striking surface of the club head is provided by using a "lost wax" procedure to mold an internally screwthreaded recess in the rear surf... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326327 | Method of assembling a conduit joint The conduit structure comprises an outer tubular housing having a tubular inner member disposed therein with a first end of the inner member being positioned in the medial portion of the outer housing and retained therein by means of an outwardly extendin... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326328 | Method of releasably connecting a pair of pipes A connector for subsea flowlines is disclosed having a metal-to-metal seal affording minimum flexure of the flowline. Each end of the flowline to be connected is provided with a mandrel. One mandrel, designated the flowline mandrel, is provided with a sea... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326329 | Method of making a contact programmable double level polysilicon MOS read only memory A contact programmable, small cell area MOS read only memory or ROM is formed by a process compatible with standard N-channel silicon gate manufacturing methods. Address lines are metal, gates are second level polysilicon, and output and ground lines are ... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326330 | Process for producing a self-aligned grid field-effect transistor A process allowing the position and the dimensions of the grid of a field-effect transistor as well as the gaps between source and grid, grid and drain to be fixed as early as the first masking operation. To this end, a mask is formed comprising source, g... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326331 | High coupling ratio electrically programmable ROM An electrically programmable memory array of the floating gate type with a high coupling ratio is made by a process which allows the edges of the floating gates to be self-aligned with the edges of the control gates. The source and drain regions are forme... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326332 | Method of making a high density V-MOS memory array A method for providing high density dynamic memory cells which provides self-alignment of both V-MOSFET device elements and their interconnections through the use of a device-defining masking layer having a plurality of parallel thick and thin regions. Ho... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326333 | Methods of manufacturing a prime mover and a rotatable assembly therefore A method of manufacturing a rotatable assembly adapted for use in a prime mover. The rotatable assembly includes a shaft having a peripheral surface along at least a part thereof and at least another component having an opening therethrough. In this metho... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326334 | Hand held restraining cutter A hand held tool for cutting hard materials such as wire, having a pair of jaws which close around the material to be cut and including a resilient "U" shaped material affixed to the jaws and adapted to roll back while gripping and holding with variable f... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326335 | Metal shears Shears suitable for cutting sheet metal and other materials and having a pivoting handle and multiple blades to facilitate the making of a variety of useful cuts. The shears includes two handles and two pivotally connected blades. One handle provides a ri... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326336 | Gauge The gauge is a flat metal block with a precisely finished planar bottom face by which it can be supported on the upper planar face of a conventional granite gauge block for lateral sliding therealong while retaining a fixed angular relation to the planar ... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326337 | Measuring instrument for the profile of piled charge of a blast furnace An apparatus for measuring the piling profile of a blast furnace charge is disclosed. The apparatus includes a guide pipe having a distal end extending into the furnace. Means are provided for moving the guide pipe radially into and out of the furnace and... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326338 | Area comparison gage A gage for directly measuring the deviation in cross sectional area of a passage from a nominal value employs a hydraulic system having pistons operatively engaged therewith. The pistons move in response to movement of passage contacting finger elements a... | 04/27/1982 |
