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The invention relates to creating the illusion in a beverage dispensing device of liquid droplets that fill a drinking glass despite their appearance of rising from the drinking glass. The illusion is accomplished by oscillating the liquid and then applying a flashing light source whose frequency is

The invention relates to creating the illusion in a beverage dispensing device of liquid droplets that fill a drinking glass despite their appearance of rising from the drinking glass. The illusion is accomplished by oscillating the liquid and then applying a flashing light source whose frequency is slightly greater than the liquid oscillations. The enclosure and curtains of the invention allow the illusion to be viewed under certain conditions in room lighting. Also, under certain conditions an optical surface is attached to the enclosure which visually masks the ambient light.

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A beverage dispensing device for a restaurant which produces liquid droplets that fill a drinking glass while creating the illusion of said liquid droplets rising from said drinking glass, comprising; a reservoir which holds a liquid, an oscillating pump which receives said liquid from said reservoi

A beverage dispensing device for a restaurant which produces liquid droplets that fill a drinking glass while creating the illusion of said liquid droplets rising from said drinking glass, comprising; a reservoir which holds a liquid, an oscillating pump which receives said liquid from said reservoir and applies pulsations to said liquid, a nozzle which receives said liquid from said oscillating pump and converts said pulsations into said liquid droplets, a flashing light source which illuminates said liquid droplets at, or above the flicker-fusion frequency, and an enclosure, in which is mounted said reservoir, said oscillating pump, said nozzle, and said flashing light source, said enclosure means preventing ambient light from striking said liquid droplets directly thereby enhancing the illusion.