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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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120027558 | TIRE STORAGE SYSTEM A tire storage system includes two spaced apart arrays of tire storage locations. An array of transfer locations is disposed between the two arrays of storage locations. Tires are loaded on and removed from carriages when the carriages are at transfer locations. The car... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20080296239 | Wheel Storage Rack A wheel storage rack for storing wheels when not in use includes a vertically extending central post with arms extending from the central post. The arms support receivers for attaching wheel mounts. Each wheel mount is removably attachable to a wheel. The wheel mount ha... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20050016942 | Wheel spacer apparatus and method of using wheel spacer A wheel spacer having a boundary wall being substantially rectangular in shape. The boundary wall is defined by first and second longitudinal walls and first and second latitudinal walls. Extending between the longitudinal walls are a plurality of load bearing members h... | 01/27/2005 |
