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 |
| 7316184 | Drier for a web of material A dryer is used for drying a web of material. The dryer includes a passage duct for the material web. Drying takes place within this passage duct which includes at least one straight section. The dryer is disposed on a printing group which includes vertical web guid... | 01/08/2008 |
| 6425271 | Apparatus for treating fabrics The invention discloses an apparatus for treating fabrics which comprises a first chamber for forming a reserve of infeed fabric, a second chamber for forming a reserve of outfeed fabric, first means for slowly infeeding the fabric into the first chamber,... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6108942 | Opposed belt drying apparatus for sliced wood veneers A drying apparatus for sliced veneer sheets having a conveying system comprising two superposed conveyor belts lying one above the other which are guided over a drying path around guide members. The drying path includes both rectilinear and curvilinear se... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6073369 | Substrate drying apparatus and method A carriage mechanism for horizontally carrying a rectangular shaped substrate and a gas injection mechanism for jetting a gas toward both upper and lower surfaces of the carried rectangular shaped substrate are provided and an air from a gas injection por... | 06/13/2000 |
| 5378377 | Process and apparatus for removing liquid from fast moving threads Excess liquid is removed from a fast-moving thread, in that the latter is deflected, so that the liquid is hurled off, the hurled off liquid is removed from the thread, in that the thread is passed through a closed chamber, where a vacuum is produced in o... | 01/03/1995 |
| 3983839 | Multiple coating apparatus An arrangement for the production of webs coated with several emulsions, comprising coating and drying means arranged in succession, in the latter being connected to air supply and discharge shafts. A plurality of coating means are arranged at a selectabl... | 10/05/1976 |
