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 |
| 4231234 | Assembly plate for assembling cam parts of a knitting machine A simple and easily manufactured assembly plate for receiving cam parts of a knitting machine in a predetermined position and in which the assembly plate is easily positioned in a knitting machine. The plate is provided with positioning projections, pins ... | 11/04/1980 |
| 4028912 | Fabric take-up mechanism A drawing-off mechanism having at least two driven rollers for drawing off knitted fabric in which the rollers are positively driven at the same peripheral speed while being resiliently pressed against each other to permit drawing off fabrics of varying t... | 06/14/1977 |
| 4018064 | Electronic control of knitting machines Apparatus for the electronic control of a knitting machine of the type comprising a storage device having an information store in which the information of a knitting pattern is stored in block form with every information block containing all the informati... | 04/19/1977 |
