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Combination Beverage Container and Spittoon
A combination beverage container and spittoon includes a bottom portion including outer wall and a first inner wall defining a spittoon space.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5489064 | Mail box delivery indicator flag A flag for visually indicating delivery of mail into an associated mail box. The inventive device includes a flag member pivotally mountable to a mail box by a spring loaded mounting assembly. A retaining assembly is coupled to the flag member for selecti... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489065 | Thin disk orifice member for fuel injector A thin disk orifice member having fuel metering orifices located on flat planar surfaces extending from the disk surface, The flat planar surfaces from sides of an enclosed structure having three or more sides, The structure may be in one position extendi... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489066 | Pesticide spray system A system for thoroughly spraying buildings with a pesticide. A truck carries a tank of liquid pesticide, a hose on a reel and a pump for pumping pesticide into the hose. A cart including a tube having a first end for connection to the hose and a second en... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489067 | Turret type precision yarn winder A turret type precision winder having a turret disc on which a pair of bobbin chucks are held for carrying a working bobbin and an empty bobbin, respectively. A yarn winding operation is carried out on the working bobbin to form a package while a contact ... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489068 | Weft supplier for shuttleless looms A weft supplier for shuttleless looms comprises a drum (6) for the yarn reserve put in rotation by a motor (30) through a clutch (2). The yarn is taken up from the reserve and transferred to a passage between the drum (6) and a cylindrical conical body (1... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489069 | Reverse rotation preventative device for fishing reel A reverse rotation preventive mechanism includes an engagement toothed portion formed on the inside circumferential surface of a rotor of a spinning reel so as to minimize the quantity of the unavoidable reverse rotation of the rotor to quicken hooking of... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489070 | Bait casting fishing reel A casting type fishing reel is disclosed and includes a spool having a transverse spool shaft and a frame about the area of the spool. The frame includes a plurality of spacer posts joining a pair of side frame plates and interengaged to maintain the fram... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489071 | Cassette tape player having circuit for detecting reverse rotation of take-up reel A system for preventing improper tape feed in a cassette tape player uses pulse width measurements from the take-up reel output signal to sense normal or aberrant tape feeding conditions. The pulse width of the output signal is compared with a predetermin... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489072 | Seat belt retractor with pre-tensioner An emergency locking passenger seat belt retractor is fitted with a pyrotechnic pretensioner actuator (221) which acts via a cable wound on a drum (213), the drum being located on frangible supports in a clutch housing and having internally formed cam sur... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489073 | Side flex leading edge ice protector An airfoil deicing system includes an airfoil substructure having an apex corresponding to the portion of the airfoil where the radius of curvature of the airfoil is smallest, the airfoil and the apex being bisected by a centerline, a deflectable shell di... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489074 | Thermal protection device, in particular for an aerospace vehicle The thermal protection device is made up of a plurality of juxtaposed unit modules each comprising a fairing element provided with fixing tabs and thermal insulation integrated in the fairing element. The gap between neighboring fairing elements is limite... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489075 | Baby bottle holder and feeder A baby bottle holder and feeder including a lightweight, hollow articulating arm having a clamp member affixed at one end for the purpose of holding a baby bottle for feeding and having another clamp member affixed at the opposite end for the purpose of c... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489076 | Support post A support for an outdoor sign has an upright where an upper and lower extent are swingably connected to move between an erect position for use and a collapsed position for storage. A cross-bar is pivotally connected to the upright for movement between a p... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489077 | Sign support leg locking mechanism A sign support base comprising a staff base to which a plurality of plates are secured, the plates having pivotal legs secured thereto, the pivot means comprising a resilient mechanism for biasing the leg toward the plate and engaging means comprising a m... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489078 | Container clip A one-piece clip shaped into open ended paralleling first and second sections attaches to the free side edge of an automobile sun visor. The first section is formed into a clip attachable to the sun visor. The second section is shaped into a holder for va... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489079 | Side facing book holding and page turning device A book holding structure is provided having means to allow a person lying down in a generally sideways facing posture to place a book in two positions, one for turning the pages of the book and the other for reading it.... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489080 | Adjustable extender for a vehicle exterior side mirror Disclosed is a new adjustable extender for a vehicle exterior side mirrors, for telescopingly extending an original equipment vehicle side rear view mirror, of a type commonly used on pickup trucks, away from a vehicle to increase an operator's field of v... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489081 | Safety bracket for table top mounting of a centrifuge A bracket for shock mounting of a vibrating or rotating device, such as a centrifuge, to a support surface. The bracket is formed from a plate of stiff material, such as steel, having an expandible deformable section along a lengthwise axis of the plate a... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489082 | Reproducible molding die having a removable cleaning layer There is provided a reproducible molding die comprising a base structure having an unevenness pattern, and a cleaning layer disposed on the surface of the base structure having the unevenness pattern, wherein the cleaning layer is removable while substant... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489083 | Apparatus for moving mechanical objects away from each other Provided is a multi-functional tool that includes two elongated bars. When the tool is in a push configuration, the bars are pivotally connected by a collar mechanism to define an obtuse angle between the bars, with each bar having a foot end extending fr... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489084 | Method of configuring a carpet roll A method of bending a roll of carpet to reduce its length so that it may be transported by a single individual, which includes inserting a tube in each end of the roll, attaching a band to each tube, and then drawing the bands together to cause the carpet... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489085 | Waste-gas piping for a filter dust melting furnace In a filter dust melting furnace, the waste gases occurring in the interior (9) of the furnace are conducted outward through a waste-gas line (5) in the furnace top. Provided in the course of the waste-gas line is a quench (20) for the abrupt cooling of t... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489086 | Cylindrical elastic mount containing highly viscous fluid and having fluid injecting inlet A fluid-filled cylindrical elastic mount which includes radially spaced-apart inner and outer sleeves, and an elastic body interposed between the inner and outer sleeves for elastical connection thereof. The elastic body has diametrically opposite fluid c... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489087 | Radial bush bearing A radial bush bearing, in particular for motor vehicles, includes a cylindrical outer sleeve, a central bush core disposed in and spaced from the outer sleeve defining an annular gap therebetween, at least one elastomer body being fixed in and completely ... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489088 | Post clamp A clamp suitable for securing a support post to a structural member of a railing such as may be associated with a deck is disclosed. The clamp includes an outer bracket movably connected to an inner bracket, and a clamping bolt. The clamp is secured to a ... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489089 | Automatic alignmant vise An automatic alignment vise capable of automatically precisely positioning a workpiece to be machined. The vise can provide precise three dimensional positioning in response to data signals provided by a robotic device, a vertical milling machine or other... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489090 | Clamping and shaping tool A multi-functional tool with clamping- and shaping jaws (14) is to be created, which is quickly adaptable to the respective different application uses and which can provide if need be not only high clamping- rather also high shaping forces. This is achiev... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489091 | Method and apparatus for printing and collating packets of nonrepeating images on a base web An apparatus and method for the collated printing of a first set of images of a nonrepeating series and a second set of images. The collated printing provides for the complete printing of the nonrepeating series with respect to each of the images so that ... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489092 | Recording paper sorting and discharging device A recording paper sorting and discharging device designed to improve the construction of copiers, printers, or the like, in sorting, separating and discharging paper in which the ends of one side of a pair of paper discharging roller shafts are shifted in... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489093 | Sheet gripper for a sheet-processing machine In a sheet gripper for a sheet-processing machine, a swingable gripper arm has at one of its ends a gripper tip which can be pressed against an abutment and, at its other end, a spring section which is bent back towards the gripper tip in the manner of a ... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489094 | Heads for golf clubs The invention provides a golf clubhead having a striking face that comprises at least two different materials so that a golf ball striking either material will give forth a different sound and feel such that the players will know when they have addressed ... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489095 | Device for protecting the validity of time sensitive information The clock circuit is formed by an oscillator (10-12) which is coupled to a counter/divider circuit (15) provided with read accesses (30). In order to prevent falsification of its data, the circuit is formed as a protected casing and includes a protected a... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489096 | Ticket systems for wagering on sports events A method for enhancing the appeal of a sporting event at which wagering is allowed utilizes a dual-function ticket having two parts to produce a collectible souvenir having true rarity. A first ticket part records details of a placed bet, and is arranged ... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489097 | Golf club head with weights A golf club head having a body. Disposed in the body in the toe to heel direction adjacent the club face is a weight. The body also contains spaced, parallel solid weights that extend from the rear wall of the body toward the club face. The parallel, soli... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489098 | Golf club head and method of its fabrication A golf club head of cast metal has a cavity formed in the face portion thereof, this cavity being filled with an alloyed material formed from a blended mixture of metallic, refractory, and polymer powders. The golf club head is preheated before the mixtur... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489099 | Apparatus and method for tracking the flight of a golf ball The golf ball tracking apparatus has a video camera for producing data representative of video images of a golf ball, a video frame processor connected to receive data from the video camera for determining the golf ball image position within a video frame... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489100 | Training golf clubs A training golf club with a spring-loaded hinge between two club half-shafts which "breaks" if the club swing is skewed or jerky is disclosed. First and second main hinge components lie side by side with a pivot shaft passing through them and with offset ... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489101 | Poker-style card game The object of the game is for a player to form a five card poker hand that has the highest poker hand ranking. In the house banked version, all players play against the house and not against each other. The game is played with a standard fifty-two card de... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489102 | Arrow point for small game An arrow point for small game includes a point body which may be styled as either a blunt point or a field point and which is slotted through its distal end so as to receive a bleeder blade. The slot which is machined into the distal end of the point body... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5489103 | Interactive communication system for communicating video game and karaoke software An interactive communication system is proposed for communicating software of video games or karaoke music from a host facility or distributor to end users. The system includes a communication terminal device provided at the end user. The communication te... | 02/06/1996 |
