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 |
| 4044972 | Aircraft with circular wings An aircraft has two concentric wings of substantially equal diameters, the wings being connected to each other and stayed by an elongated central corridor which is located beneath a central engine duct disposed in the plane of the upper wing.... | 08/30/1977 |
| 3985317 | Short coupled airplane with variable wing lift A short coupled airplane with variable wing lift comprising a fuselage that is free of the conventional tail assembly and has a wing structure comprising a plurality of short span wing segments spaced apart longitudinally of the fuselage with the forwardm... | 10/12/1976 |
| 3981460 | Staggered channel wing-type aircraft Disclosed is a staggered channel wing-type aircraft comprising a reverse staggard lower and upper wing which relates to aircraft of the type generally described as a short takeoff and landing vehicle (STOL) and more particularly to an improved version the... | 09/21/1976 |
| 3955781 | Supersonic aircraft with the engines disposed under the delta wing middle portion A supersonic aircraft in which the engines are disposed under the middle portion of a delta wing and the contour of the nose portion except for the front end of the fuselage is defined essentially by two arcs of different circumference, the circumferences... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3942746 | Aircraft having improved performance with beaver-tail afterbody configuration An aircraft having a composite configuration comprising a conventional fuselage forebody portion which symmetrically and variformly blends into a relatively wide, substantially flat beaver-tail-like afterbody, with the afterbody having an integral pitch t... | 03/09/1976 |
| 3942747 | Joined wing aircraft An aircraft of the Canard type in which a first airfoil is attached to an aft fin portion of the fuselage at a higher elevation than a second airfoil which is attached to the fore portion of the fuselage. The second airfoil extends outwardly and rearwardl... | 03/09/1976 |
| 3938761 | Aircraft with improved field of view for passengers An aircraft designed to afford passengers an unrestricted view for "sightseeing" or other purposes. Passenger accommodation extends to the foremost part of a fuselage and is enclosed by a cabin transparency extending to cover substantially the entire fiel... | 02/17/1976 |
| 3930624 | Aircraft An aircraft having a major longitudinal strength structure generally centralized in the vertical mid-plane. Shallow V-shaped wing panels are secured to the longitudinal strength structure, one at the top and one at the bottom to define a rhombic cellular ... | 01/06/1976 |
