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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 |
| 4383335 | Robe adapted for incontinent individuals A robe adapted for use by incontinent individuals having a front panel extending continuously from the neck downward to about the feet of the wearer and extending across the front of the body of the wearer; upper rear panel forming sections from either ed... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383336 | Hand covering A mitten-like hand covering is disclosed having a transverse slit-like opening through which one or more fingers, or the entire hand, may pass. Upper and lower elastic strips are attached along the upper and lower sides of the slit-like opening. Upper and... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383337 | Elbow prosthesis A humeral member and an ulnar member are joined by an intermediate insert which functions as an ulnar bushing. A radial member may also be employed with the prosthesis. The ulnar member includes a curved surface from which a support projects. Preferably, ... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383338 | Homotransplant for conjunctiviplasty The homotransplant for conjunctiviplasty is essentially a retroperitoneal fascia. The use of the proposed homotransplant facilitates procurement of the material for homoplasty, said material can be taken in a large amount at a time and is readily transpor... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383339 | Bidet adaptor for toilet A portable device for adapting a toilet for use as a bidet comprising a rigid conduit having a generally horizontal portion sized to fit in the gap between the bottom surface of the toilet seat and the top surface of the toilet bowl rim, and a generally U... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383340 | Retrofit whirlpool bath having flow directing recesses A retrofit whirlpool bath is described which includes an oblong tub having inwardly tapering side and end walls. The end walls each have a back supportive surface and each are provided with a wedge shaped recessed surface. One of the end walls is also pro... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383341 | Bathtub self-cleaning system A bathtub self-cleaning system includes a series of pop-out spray nozzles designed to be arranged about the confining walls of a bathtub and the like. The spray nozzles are connected by a manifold to a combined concentrate and dilutent mixing control valv... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383342 | Mattress for a sitting or lying person A molded elastic mattress is formed with a plurality of laterally directed ribs for coming into contact with a human body. The ribs are tilted with respect to the longitudinal axis to relieve pressure on the dorsal spine.... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383343 | Foot supporting strap for hospital bed A foot supporting strap for beds including a strap detachably secured to the frame of or other parts of a bed. Means are associated with the strap for spacing the strap from the mattress thereby to form a space into which the feet of the patient can at le... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383344 | Vehicle rear surface washing system A vehicle rear vertical surface washing system comprising a horizontally movable carriage positionable within a frame adjacent the rear vertical surface of a vehicle and a vertically movable carriage which carries a rotary brush that washes and sweeps the... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383345 | Hand-held buffing-polishing machine A hand-held buffing-polishing machine wherein a driven shaft which rotates a pliable buffing or polishing working medium is hollow, and a liquid agent facilitating buffing or polishing is coupled to the hollow shaft through a collar around the shaft and t... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383346 | Cleaning member for cleaning the interior of heat exchanger tubes Cleaning member for cleaning the interior of heat exchanger tubes by rotating, including a sponge rubber body having a given diameter, an adhesive film disposed on the sponge rubber body, and an abrasive layer formed of granular abrasive elements being fa... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383347 | Four-bar linkage door hinge A hinge mechanism for a door on an overhead baggage compartment which is generally located in the passenger section of an airliner and utilized by passengers for the stowage of carry-on luggage. The door hinge mechanism comprises, an unequal length four-b... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383348 | Device for opening shellfish Shellfish are placed into a chamber which is brought rapidly to a high pressure. A lid of the chamber is magnetically sealed. The magnets are quickly released to allow the chamber pressure to blow off the cover with large springs absorbing energy. The imm... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383349 | Opening bonded glass fiber bundles Textile length multifilament bundles of coated and bonded glass fibers are fed into the fiber inlet of a momentum exchange aspirator having a high pressure propelling air source inlet providing propelling air at a velocity generally equal to the velocity ... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383350 | Releasable theft protection device This invention relates in general to a theft protection device for hand or shoulder carried articles, such as cameras, purses, etc., and more specifically to at least one predetermined force responsive attachment device, which has one component attached t... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383351 | Universal clamp A universal clamp for an adjustable post includes a split base clamp mounted on a stationary supporting stud. An elongated channel in the form of a yoke including a rigid extension protruding through the split base clamp slidably supports a pair of oppose... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383352 | Method of making spring clutch collector ring An improved method of making a collector ring enhances the cyclic engagement and disengagement of a spring clutch of the type having an annular spring compressed between a clutch cover and plurality of externally located release levers. The preferred meth... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383353 | Process of forming a joint with a predetermined clamp-up load A collar threads onto a shear pin. When the collar engages a surface of a workpiece, resistance to further threading increases. When sufficient resistance to threading occurs, a setting driver upsets lobes of the collar and forces these lobes radially inw... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383354 | Method of forming an interlocking metal joint A metal structure such as a tube having an axial seam formed with interlocked tongues and recesses with in-plane stabilization created by locally moving areas of the metal out of plane to form dimple-like structures ("dimples") either before or after form... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383355 | Method for the production of a sealed housing for a disk shaped semiconductor body which exhibits at least one pn-transition The invention concerns a method for the construction of a sealed disc cell housing for a disc shaped semiconductor body (1), which consists, essentially, of a hollow-cylindrical insulation housing (9) and two pressure contact bodies (4). The latter are pr... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383356 | Method and apparatus for the production of rotor and stator sheet packets for electrical machines A method and apparatus for making packets of rotor or stator sheets for electrical machinery. At a certain station to which a preselected number of sheets are delivered, the sheets are both aligned and joined together. Aligning is effected by an aligning ... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383357 | Methods of aligning paramagnetic articles Paramagnetic articles such as a stem (14) and an armature (17) are placed into mutual coextensive alignment with a gap (19) of a predetermined width between adjacent portions of such articles. To repetitively establish the predetermined gap between succes... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383358 | Method of manufacturing an electrochemical cell An electrochemical cell having an anode which is an alloy of an oxidizable metal, specifically lithium, and an element having a lower oxidation potential, for example calcium. The cell is partially discharged to deplete the amount of lithium at the surfac... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383359 | Parts feeding and assembling system A parts feeding and assembling system including a plurality of stockers containing a multiplicity of parts arranged in a disorderly manner, a separating and feeding mechanism for separating one part after another from the parts in the stockers and feeding... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383360 | Apparatus for inserting coils into core structure with inner and outer coil advancing means Coils are manually inserted into respective guide paths of a coil inserting jig which is placed with respect to an advancing mechanism. A coil advancing pusher is movably located inside the jig to move the inner portions of the coils toward a core structu... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383361 | Connector insertion tool The disclosed invention is an improvement to a card edge connector insertion tool. More particularly, the improvement includes a spring loaded guide block mounted on the insertion tool which enables the tool to be machine drivable for semi-automatically m... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383362 | Apparatus for opening and closing the clamping members of a hanger This invention selectively opens and closes the paired clamping members of a flexible skirt hanger by imparting predetermined forces to predetermined parts of said hanger in a predetermined manner. The hanger is held at a work station in a frame during a ... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383363 | Method of making a through-hole connector A conductive paste is disposed in a through hole to provide communication between wiring patterns formed on both of the major surfaces of an insulator substrate. Conductive layers integral with the wiring patterns are formed on the both major surfaces of ... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383364 | Method for terminating flat cable A method and apparatus are disclosed for terminating multi-conductor cable. A plurality of terminals are preloaded partially into a housing leaving their crimped terminating portions extending therefrom in such a position as they can be readily crimped co... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383365 | Egg slicer with interchangeable components This device is a combination device, for slicing eggs, stick butter, soft cheeses and other foods, and it consists primarily of interchangeable cutting blades and food support members, the support members being slideable in the base of the device. It furt... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383366 | Blade driving assembly for hair clipper A cutting blade drive assembly for a hair clipper comprises a frame and a driven assembly rotatable on the frame about an axis fixed relative to the frame. The driven assembly includes a tension spring, and a cutting blade is engaged by the tension spring... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383367 | Potato scoop A tool which can separate the skin of a potato from its meat while simultaneously cutting the meat into usable sections is disclosed. The tool has a handle which mounts at one end a cutting edge assembly shaped to cut along the inside of the potato skin a... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383368 | Concentricity gage A bore concentricity gage having a collet at one end adapted to be expanded into close fitting engagement with one of two axially spaced bores on a workpiece and a hollow concentricity plug at its opposite end adapted to be received in close fitting engag... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383369 | Knife alignment sensor The present invention provides an inexpensive device particularly designed so as to permit easy, accurate adjustment of the working edge, edges, surface or surfaces of the movable head on any of a wide variety of mill and shop tools. A housing encloses a ... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383370 | Wheel alignment system and method A wheel alignment system and method for determining the thrust line of a vehicle and employing the thrust line when positioning the steerable wheels of the vehicle to a plane parallel to the thrust line as well as during the determination of set-back betw... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383371 | Scope mount for handgun An elongated body is provided and extends along the upper rear frame portion of a revolver above the cartridge cylinder thereof swingable outwardly of one side of the frame portion. A first side of the body extends along the aforementioned one side of the... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383372 | Instant position finder and course plotter The present invention is directed to an instant position finder and course plotter. A first embodiment of the present invention relates to a three arm protractor which includes a circular base member, a fixed central arm and a movable left and right arm. ... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383373 | Method of and apparatus for calibrating an adjustable jig In order to determine the correct relative positions of marker tips on an adjustable jig used for chassis and body repairs of a damaged automotive vehicle, a three-dimensional representation of the spatial distribution of characteristic points of the vehi... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383374 | Device to determine hair cutting angle A device to be worn upon the index finger to determine hair cutting angle comprising a ring mount for circling the index finger, a circular disk-like case attached to the ring mount, a face dial attached to the case circular surface inscribed with lines e... | 05/17/1983 |
