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 |
| 4445581 | System for loading railroad cars A method and apparatus are provided for loading railroad cars coupled in motion. Prior to loading, an "empty" composite weight is obtained of the front and rear trucks of an empty selected railroad car, the rear truck of the adjacent forward railroad car ... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4401175 | System for weighing railroad cars in motion during loading A system is provided for weighing freight cars coupled in motion during loading. An upstream weigh bridge is provided and is mechanically separated from a downstream weigh bridge, with a loading chute overlying one of the weigh bridges for dispensing mate... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4258809 | Apparatus and methods for weighing railroad cars coupled together and in motion An apparatus and method for weighing railroad cars coupled together and in motion is disclosed which eliminates the necessity for special scales and, in particular, can be retrofitted and used in conjunction with most existing weigh bridges regardless of ... | 03/31/1981 |
| 4201908 | Measurement and recording apparatus and system A system for measurement and recording of data as to events and conditions is disclosed including a recorder unit adapted to be located at a surveillance site and connected to detectors providing successive signals responsive to successive actuations by i... | 05/06/1980 |
| 4134467 | Low profile platform scale A low profile platform scale having a rigid rectangular platform and a base assembly, supporting the platform, adapted to rest on an underlying foundation and having four independent corner pads, each with beam load cells mounted in cantilever fashion on ... | 01/16/1979 |
| 4134464 | In-motion car weighing system A system for bidirectional in-motion weighing of freight cars of a train includes a weighbridge, first and second sets of load cells, three wheel sensing devices, a control device, a device initiated by the control device for weighing operations, and a pr... | 01/16/1979 |
| 3959636 | Batching system A batching system for operating each cycle of a batching process includes a communications bus to which are connected a basic processor, a control console, an analog/digital converter module, and an interface unit. The basic processor includes RAM memory ... | 05/25/1976 |
| 3931860 | Low-profile platform scale A low-profile platform scale has a horizontal base, a lower primary U-shaped lever, an upper secondary U-shaped lever, a horizontal platform, and load cell means mounted on the base. The base has a unitary structure including a front pair and a rear pair ... | 01/13/1976 |
