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 |
| 3982027 | Method for producing a feeding stuff suitable for ruminants A feedstuff and method for making such in which a liquid mixture, containing one part by weight of urea, 0.2 to 1.5 parts by weight of acetic acid, 3 to 0.25 parts by weight of molasses and water in an amount of from 0 to 50 percent by weight of the total... | 09/21/1976 |
| 3975551 | Microbially-stable potato products and process Gelatinized potato pieces containing sufficient generally uniformly dispersed sulfur dioxide to enable the pieces to be protected from microbial contamination even when stored for prolonged periods at ambient temperature. An article of manufacture includi... | 08/17/1976 |
| 3975549 | Agglomerated dehydrated potato product and method for forming a reconstituted dough-like product therefrom An agglomerate of dehydrated potato particles containing a binder, the agglomerate having a bulk density in the range of 0.25-0.50 grams per milliliter a bulk porosity in the range of 0.6-0.9 and an initial moisture absorption rate during reconstitution a... | 08/17/1976 |
| 3968265 | Freeze-thaw stable, french fry potato product and process for producing the same A potato dough is prepared so that it is 23 to 40% solids including cooked intact potato cells, binder and raw starch, the remainder of the dough being moisture. The dough is divided into slabs and cut into strips of normal French fry potato size. The str... | 07/06/1976 |
| 3968260 | Product and process for producing dehydrated granular potato product having high cold water adsorption A dehydrated potato product is produced in a singlepass, non-addback process by preparing and cooking potatoes, mixing the cooked potatoes with a starch complexing emulsifier in the range of 0.3 to 2.0% by weight of solids to coat the surface of the potat... | 07/06/1976 |
| 3959501 | Microbially-stable potato products and process Gelatinized potato pieces containing sufficient generally uniformly dispersed sulfur dioxide to enable the pieces to be protected from microbial contamination even when stored for prolonged periods at ambient temperature. Storage of the pieces in a substa... | 05/25/1976 |
| 3953616 | Organic acid derivatives This invention relates to certain novel starch compositions. More particularly, it is concerned with certain useful salts of various half-acid organic esters which have been found to be of value in industry when used in conjunction with starch. The invent... | 04/27/1976 |
| 3946116 | Preformed potato products Potatoes are converted into convenience food products, using techniques which provide advantages over customary operations. Example: Potatoes are cooked and mashed. The mash is shaped into strips which are then treated with hot air to case-harden their su... | 03/23/1976 |
| 3934046 | Water leaching pre-fried potato slices The invention enables the production of fried potato products of greatly improved texture, flavor, and color from raw stock that exhibits excessive browning tendencies and which would normally yield fried products of excessively dark color. Typically, pie... | 01/20/1976 |
