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 |
| 4092987 | Cigar-like product A smokable cigar-like product whose interior is formed from prepared fragments of natural or manufactured tobacco leaves. The fragments have an irregularly contoured main surface which is generally larger in all its dimensions than the thickness of the or... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4074722 | Smokable tobacco products and manufacturing methods therefor Disclosed is a process for manufacturing smokable tobacco products through selective handling of strip tobacco based on particle size and shape. In the process, small strip tobacco is removed from bulk tobacco. The bulk tobacco is then cut to reduce its s... | 02/21/1978 |
