Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8038020 | Support for a set of tools A support for a series of tools, each tool including at least one head and one handle, includes a base; a plurality of housings, each housing being intended to receive and retain the handle; a plurality of means for receiving and retaining a head, each receiving and... | 10/18/2011 |
| D587399 | Pocket torch with a flexible lead topped by swivelling luminous head | 02/24/2009 |
| 7444906 | Device for identifying clamping tools A device for marking or identifying a female recess tool for clamping a mobile element (such as a nut), characterized in that it is adapted to be completely inserted in the female recess and maintained therein by frictional forces. It is then easy to identify, for e... | 11/04/2008 |
| D575132 | Tool handle | 08/19/2008 |
| 7313974 | Support for electrical/electronic structure and/or electrical power supply structure for a hand dynamometer tool, in particular for a torque wrench operating by breaking mechanical equilibrium A support is for supporting electrical and/or electronic structure and/or electrical power supply structure for a hand dynamometer tool, in particular for a torque wrench operating by breaking mechanical equilibrium. A body of a substantially cylindrical shape that ... | 01/01/2008 |
| D556926 | Inspection lamp | 12/04/2007 |
| 7284451 | Dynamometer tool, in particular a torque wrench, and a method of detecting a break in mechanical equilibrium during tightening to torque A means for detecting a break in mechanical equilibrium comprised of a measurement means that delivers a signal corresponding to a measurement of a torque applied to a fastener element, an electronic processing means for electronically processing a signal, and a com... | 10/23/2007 |
| D513957 | Knife handle | 01/31/2006 |
| D510905 | Charging unit | 10/25/2005 |
| 6880434 | Transversely retained multiple slip-joint pliers A multiple joint pliers having a transversely retaining branch (2), a transversely retained branch (3), and a plate (4). The transversely retaining branch (2) which includes a first jaw (6), a first articulating intermediate zone (... | 04/19/2005 |
| D489233 | Ratchet | 05/04/2004 |
| 6694848 | Fast approach self-adjusting pliers for single-handed manipulation An adjustable pair of pliers including two branches, and each branch has an articulation region located between a jaw portion and a handle portion. A first branch includes a guide surface 25, and an articulation surface 26, a front guide mechanism 11, and... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6684472 | Sleeve for pulling tool, corresponding pulling tool and corresponding method of removal A pulling tool (1) of the type used on the end of a shaft (2) to remove a mechanical part (3) that is force-fitted or stuck to the shaft (2). The tool includes a threaded rod (20) and a body (5) to which legs (6) are hinged. A sleeve is designed to be mou... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6679140 | Self-adjusting pliers for single-handed manipulation A pair of pliers which is automatically and continuously self-adjusting. In the approach phase, a mobile branch (2) is guided by a cradle with two intermediate (4) and rear (32) supports.... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6591505 | Folding knife with a locking catch A knife having a handle (7), at least one blade (3) mounted so that it can pivot on the handle (7) between a position in which it is retracted into the handle (7) and an open work position, and a member (31, 41) for locking the blade (3) in the open posit... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6557441 | Rotational driving tool for screwing member A tool (1) comprising a head (4) having at least two engaging surfaces (10) for driving the screwing member by its at least partially matching shape and a device (5) for driving the head rotation. The head globally behaves as a single-piece part when the ... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6227080 | Vice-grip pliers Locking grips (1) designed so that their latch lock mechanism (8) cannot travel beyond a point of alignment of its three points but locks, slightly set back with respect to this alignment, by the snap-fastening of a relief (30) of a catch (28) borne by a ... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6196090 | One-way drive strap wrench A one-way drive strap wrench having two strand parts (11A, 11B) and a shoe (15) for bearing against an oil filter (2). The shoe is pivotally mounted about a laterally offset axis (16). The wrench is particularly adapted for the fitting and removal of moto... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6145416 | Drive tool equipped with a locking mechanism A tool includes an adapter for coupling to a rotary element such as a screwing/unscrewing socket. The adapter is equipped with a mechanism for locking the coupling. The lock mechanism is unlockable and normally locked. The tool further includes a main dri... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6134994 | Pliers with ergonomic handles Pliers comprise two branches having an area forming a handle rigid with the branch and having, at least in a proximal part, a cross section whose profile is convex or essentially convex. The branches are pivoted to each other in a region including a coupl... | 10/24/2000 |
| 4872645 | Coil spring compressor A coil spring compressor includes two jaws, one of which is fixed at one end of a guide tube, while the other jaw is slidably mounted on such tube and connected to a slide (32) provided with a radial finger member in the shape of a wedge extending through... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4774864 | Dynamometric screw-driver A screw-driver includes, disposed inside a driving handle, a torque limiter having a torsion spring in which one end of a helical friction band carries a ring connected by axial splines to a stem of the tool while the corresponding end of the torsion spri... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4759217 | Process and apparatus for balancing a vehicle wheel The wheel (3) to be balanced is mounted on a rotatable shaft carried by two spaced bearings (6, 4) provided with force sensors ( 8, 10). Two standard weights are mounted on the wheel rim at two points spaced angularly apart. The sensors (8, 10) signal the... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4712425 | Wheel balancing machine, particularly for automobile wheels The balancing machine comprises a shaft (2) mounted on a frame (1) by means of two bearings (3, 4), under each of which a force sensor (5, 6) is mounted. The shaft (2) is driven by a motor (10) and a chain transmission. The chain (16) of this transmission... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4645276 | Angle iron for supporting plates, panels or other objects and cabinet formed using angle irons of this type This angle iron is shaped so that the lateral section of each of its flanges is folded inwards (25, 26) and has holes (12) located at intervals along this folded-back section so that devices (50) for fixing a bracket (48) or a plate (40) cannot be seen fr... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4585092 | Device for setting the attitude and the measuring height of the body of a vehicle to be checked on a surface plate, elevator, stays or other means without subjecting it to any warping stress This device is of the type comprising supports at four points, two of which are interconnected in the manner of a balance by hydraulic or mechanical balancing devices (3, 10). The balancing devices are adjustable in height and at least one of the other tw... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4581957 | Tightening tool for nuts or bolts This tool defines an inner opening (2) having a polygonal inscribed profile having six or twelve angles, said profile comprising grooves (3) at the place of said angles for the purpose of clearing the edges of the nut or bolt body to be driven, these groo... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4562746 | Dynamometric tightening apparatus An apparatus displays the torque reached by a tightening tool on a case which is independent from the tool proper. For this purpose, the tool has diodes for transmitting infrared radiation, for example, while the case has diodes for receiving this radiati... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4432145 | Apparatus for inspecting the geometry of the wheels of a vehicle This apparatus comprises, in combination, two similar devices disposed in opposite directions. The devices are adapted to be fixed respectively to the two opposite wheels of a vehicle and parallel to the latter. Each device comprises a first rigid hollow ... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4339709 | Device for measuring the relative position of two objects A device for measuring the relative position of two objects by variation of capacitance. The device comprises a capacitive detector of the differential type which has at least two first electrodes adapted to be mechanically connected to one of the objects... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4178541 | Apparatus for testing the operation of a device controlling the ignition of an internal combustion engine The apparatus for testing a device controlling the ignition of an engine comprises rotary driving means for driving the device and simulating the driving of the device in normal operation; an angular encoder mechanically coupled to the driving means for p... | 12/11/1979 |
| 4094198 | Machine for balancing a body of revolution The machine comprises a shaft mounted in a housing to rotate about a horizontal axis and arranged to carry the body of revolution in a concentric position. The shaft is also capable of oscillating in the housing about a vertical axis intersecting the hori... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4062242 | Machine for balancing vehicle wheels In this machine, an optical coding device furnishes a plurality of code numbers one of which is stored upon each rotation of the wheel to be balanced when the latter rotates at a stable measuring speed. This stored number corresponds to the passage of the... | 12/13/1977 |
| 3981209 | Gripping pincers The pincers is of the vice-pincers type and comprises a main lever and a fixed jaw integral with the main lever. A pivotable jaw is pivoted to the main lever and a toggle device connects the pivotable jaw to another part of the main lever. The feature of ... | 09/21/1976 |
