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 |
| 4330116 | Bundling mechanism for signatures A bundling mechanism for receiving a stream of signatures in overlapping relation on a conveyor belt and for stacking them in register with one another preparatory to separation into bundles for transfer or storage. A twisting conveyor is provided for hel... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4285511 | Method and apparatus for stacking sheets such as paper currency A plurality of coplanar belt conveyors extend in parallel spaced relationship to each other to feed successive sheets to be stacked into a stacking compartment formed on the conveyors. Just upstream of the stacking compartment, one or more endless belts a... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4275874 | Extended stacker A stacker for handling and counting documents such as, for example, paper sheets, paper currency and the like in which the documents are fed from an input tray through cooperative feeder and stripper assemblies which separate the documents to feed them in... | 06/30/1981 |
| 4268021 | Transportation arrangement for sheetlike recording carriers Only the topmost sheet (12) of a stack is fed from a supply box (10) by transportation rolls (16) by way of a separating arrangement (18) to a pair of transportation rolls (20, 22). This pair transports the sheet further until the ray of a light (66) is i... | 05/19/1981 |
| 4253655 | Multiple bank note temporary storing device for bank note totaling machine Herein disclosed is a multiple bank note temporary storing device for use with a bank note totaling machine. The storing device includes a piling station for piling a multiplicity of discontinuously fed bank notes consecutively with a slight shift into a ... | 03/03/1981 |
| 4222556 | Sheet feeding apparatus utilizing a spirally slotted stacking wheel In a sheet stacking system employing a spirally slotted wheel and a stripping plate to remote sheets from the wheel and form them into a stack, the sheets are conveyed to the stacking wheel by a vacuum drum having a slot around its circumference into whic... | 09/16/1980 |
| 4222557 | Printer feeding and stacking A printer feeding and stacking mechanism for feeding a printer selectively with individual sheets of paper from one of two feeding hoppers holding stacks of individual sheets and sequentially depositing the typed sheets in a stacking hopper. The device fe... | 09/16/1980 |
| 4203589 | Jam detector A jam detector comprising a sensor for producing a first signal which indicates the presence of a document at a predetermined position in a document path and a second signal which indicates the absence of a document at the predetermined position in the do... | 05/20/1980 |
| 4120491 | Sheet stacking apparatus Sheets coming from a rotary printing press are conveyed to a drum mounted for rotation adjacent the delivery end of the sheet conveyor band. The drum comprises a plurality of like axially spaced discs, each disc having a series of spirally extending, equi... | 10/17/1978 |
| 4088314 | Synchronous stacking device A synchronous stacking device for receiving and stacking documents fed to it in a random spaced apart relationship by a delivery mechanism. Documents move from the delivery mechanism through a movable guide track having first and second positions, toward ... | 05/09/1978 |
| 4067568 | Document feeding and stacking apparatus A document feeding and stacking apparatus, which may be used in conjunction with a document delivery system, comprises a stacking station having a support platform and an edge aligning barrier projecting perpendicularly from one side of the platform. A do... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4065123 | Apparatus for stacking documents in sequence Documents are stacked on edge on a bed assembly having a backplate assembly near one end and a slidable backstop assembly aranged to be incremented away from the backplate assembly as the documents fill the stacking space therebetween. The backstop assemb... | 12/27/1977 |
| 4058308 | Apparatus for stacking substantially flat articles An apparatus for stacking transparency frames, or other substantially flat articles, comprises a rotating cam body located between a feed-in arrangement and a receivng arrangement. The cam body is synchronized to the movement of the transparency frames on... | 11/15/1977 |
| 4056200 | High speed stacker A high speed stacker for grouping small tablets or similar products utilizes a vertically oriented tumble wheel having peripheral pockets for carrying the products serially between a receiving point and a discharge point. At the discharge point, the produ... | 11/01/1977 |
| 4056264 | Stack forming device The stack forming device according to the invention comprises a traction surface which is rotatably driven. The portion of the trailing edge of a sheet to be stacked is kept in contact with the traction surface so that the trailing edge of the sheet is di... | 11/01/1977 |
| 4047472 | Apparatus for optically marking predetermined positions in a stack of documents The apparatus includes a table on which the documents, received from a conveyor, are stacked on edge. The table is formed with one or more elongated slots extending perpendicularly to the stack of documents, and a rotating disc is mounted beneath each slo... | 09/13/1977 |
| 4046371 | Document stacking device A high speed sheet stacking device for stacking documents on edge as they are serially ejected from a sheet transport apparatus into preselected sorting pockets. A pair of spaced-apart paddle wheels coaxially disposed subjacent to the pocket are rotativel... | 09/06/1977 |
| 3954259 | Double bar separator for a sheet receiving tray An automatic document handler for supplying and removing documents from the platen of a processing apparatus such as a copying machine. The document handler includes a document supply tray adapted for holding documents awaiting copying and for receiving d... | 05/04/1976 |
| 3949981 | Mechanism for stacking sheets A sheet stacking mechanism neatly stacks a plurality of sheets, which may be of dissimilar sizes, thicknesses and surface quality (finishes), in the original sequence in which the sheets are fed into the mechanism. An outfeed mechanism picks each sheet in... | 04/13/1976 |
