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 |
| 7329402 | Methods of imaging and treatment Novel ultrasound methods comprising administering to a patient a targeted vesicle composition which comprises vesicles comprising a lipid, protein or polymer, encapsulating a gas, in combination with a targeting ligand, and scanning the patient using ultrasound. The... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7105151 | Oxygen delivery agents and uses for the same The present invention describes, inter alia, oxygen delivery agents or blood substitutes comprising a fluorinated gas and a stabilizing material, uses for the oxygen delivery agents or blood substitutes, and apparatus for making and delivering the oxygen delivery ag... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7083572 | Therapeutic delivery systems Targeted therapeutic delivery systems comprising gas- or gaseous precursor-filled lipid microspheres comprising a therapeutic are described. Methods for employing such microspheres in therapeutic delivery applications are also provided. Targeted therapeutic d... | 08/01/2006 |
| 6998107 | Composition comprising low density microspheres Low density microspheres, methods for preparing same, and use of same as contrast agents are described. The microspheres have a void having a volume that comprises at least about 75% of the total volume of the microspheres, and which contains a gas or the vapor of a... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6974956 | Super alloy ionization chamber for reactive samples The present invention relates to an ionization source having a chamber for ionizing a sample. The ionization chamber has surfaces to reduce the overall interaction with reactive samples. The inner surface walls of the ionization chamber or the ionization chamber may... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6951580 | Method for minimizing bowing of collector plates in an electrostatic precipitator, and a collector plate-clip combination A bow-reduced precipitator collector plate assembly and an appertaining method include a precipitator collector plate that contacts a spring-like stiffening element configured to be attached to a fixed anchor or an adjacent anchoring collector plate. The stiffening ... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6936077 | 1,3-diamino-4-(aminomethyl)—benzene derivatives and colorants containing the said compounds 1,3-Diamino-4-(aminomethyl)-benzene derivatives of the general Formula (I) or their physiologically tolerated, water-soluble salts, as well as agents for the oxidative dyeing of fibers, containing these compounds. ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 5066313 | Wire electrode replacement for electrostatic precipitators A pair of wire electrodes in an electrostatic precipitator is replaced by a single rigid discharge electrode. Shrouds on the upper end of the rigid discharge electrode cooperate with the original supporting and locating means on the upper high voltage fra... | 11/19/1991 |
| 4473383 | Precipitator with weighted release wire A precipitator comprising a multiplicity of vertical wires suspended from their top ends and having weights connected to their bottom ends, and means responsive to the weight reduction when a wire fails to release the top ends of the wire to provide for r... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4318719 | Electrode for an electric dust collector An electrode for an electrically operable dust collector comprises a corrosion-resistant rigid frame, which has a relatively small coefficient of expansion, and a flexible conductive sheet secured under stress to the frame, and including a fiber cloth dev... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4134040 | Adapter for wire electrode assembly of an electrostatic precipitator An adapter for wire electrode assemblies of electrostatic precipitators so that wire electrodes of the type comprising an elongated electrode wire having its opposite ends terminating axially within two identical shrouds, each of the shrouds shaped as an ... | 01/09/1979 |
| 3966436 | Discharge electrode A gas cleansing apparatus and more particularly an electrostatic precipitating apparatus having improved discharge electrode means therein.... | 06/29/1976 |
