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 |
| 7302886 | Hulling apparatus and method A hulling apparatus having a main frame, a moveable support frame, a rotatable drum fixed in position relative to the main frame, a housing supported by the moveable support frame and a hulling chamber formed by the placement of the drum inside the housing. A contac... | 12/04/2007 |
| 6951169 | Horizontal grinding type rice milling machine In a horizontal grinding-type rice polishing machine which is so configured that a grinding roller (1) installed circularly and fixedly on a horizontal rotation axis (10) is covered with a concentric cylindrical bran removing screen (S) that can be spl... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6912238 | Particle beam device A laser and method of producing laser light. The laser and method involve passing a high energy beam of particles through an evacuated chamber. A static electric or magnetic field is established in the chamber in a direction that is essentially perpendicular to the ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6886453 | Rice polisher, pre-polished rice producing apparatus, leveling device and pre-polished rice producing facility A rice polisher for polishing rice, which is a preprocess necessary for producing pre-white rice having a favorable taste by using a small amount of water, a pre-polished rice producing apparatus that uses the rice polisher, a leveling device capable of uniformly le... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6827008 | Non-washing rice manufacture apparatus and non-washing rice manufacture method The present invention intends to realize a non-washing rice presenting a good taste by performing the pressure rice washing under the most appropriate conditions in correspondence to the polished rice to be washed. Said problems are solved by a non-washing ri... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6752072 | Rice polisher, pre-polished rice producing apparatus, leveling device and pre-polished rice producing facility A rice polisher for polishing rice, which is a preprocess necessary for producing pre-white rice having a favorable taste by using a small amount of water, a pre-polished rice producing apparatus that uses the rice polisher, a leveling device capable of uniformly le... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6748852 | Rice polisher, pre-polished rice producing apparatus, leveling device and pre-polished rice producing facility A rice polisher for polishing rice, which is a preprocess necessary for producing pre-white rice having a favorable taste by using a small amount of water, a pre-polished rice producing apparatus that uses the rice polisher, a leveling device capable of uniformly le... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6539849 | Rice-polisher, pre-polished rice producing apparatus, leveling device and pre-polished rice producing facility A rice polisher for polishing rice, which is a preprocess necessary for producing pre-white rice having a favorable taste by using a small amount of water, a pre-polished rice producing apparatus that uses the rice polisher, a leveling device capable of u... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6457404 | Polished cereal processing apparatus An apparatus for processing polished cereal to obtain no-bran cereal having a reduced size. The apparatus comprises a polished cereal processing section for removing bran remaining on surfaces of polished cereal by mixing granular material with the polish... | 10/01/2002 |
| 5511469 | Abrasive type vertical grain milling machine There is disclosed an abrasive type vertical grain milling machine in which a space formed between any two adjacent ones of abrasive rolls serves as a jet air groove. The space serving as the jet air groove is of such an axial size that grain to be milled... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5476036 | Abrading or polishing machine A screen assembly for grain husking, decorticating, polishing and whitening machines, the assembly to be mounted on a frame part of the respective machine. The assembly comprises at least two screen sectors which form a substantially cylindrical shape aro... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5419252 | Vertical milling machine A vertical milling machine comprises a first milling part and a second milling part situated under the first milling part, the first and second milling parts having a common main shaft extending vertically. The first milling part has a supply part of grai... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5394792 | Bran-removing perforated cylindrical body of abrasive type grain milling machine An abrasive type vertical grain milling machine comprises a perforated cylindrical body having at least one perforated arcuate plate member which is formed therein with both a first group of elongated bran-removing holes serving to lead grain to be milled... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5295629 | Vertical type grain-milling machine A vertical type grain-milling machine has a perforated bran removing cylinder arranged vertically with respect to a machine frame; a main shaft which is rotatably provided within the perforated bran removing cylinder; and a milling roll and a screw roll w... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5259303 | Rice cleaning machine A rice-cleaning machine has a flowing-down friction type rice-cleaning chamber (18) formed around the lower portion of a main vertical rotary shaft (10) a grain sending chamber (79) formed around an upper portion of the main shaft (10) for forcibly sendin... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5209158 | Grain cleaning and polishing machine A machine for cleaning and polishing grains comprises at least one treatment chamber which includes an upper frusto conical baffle having a central opening to admit grains thereinto, an intermediate rotatory disc to impart movement to the grains falling t... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5076156 | Grain cleaning machine A grain cleaning machine comprising a cleaning chamber including a cleaning roll for cleaning uncleaned grain white, a screw conveyor for feeding the uncleaned grain into the cleaning chamber, a discharge adjusting device disposed in a grain outflow regio... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5076157 | Coffee bean polishing apparatus A green coffee bean polishing apparatus for removing silver skin from green coffee beans having the silver skins remaining after removal of parchment, comprises: a tubular member communicated at one end portion thereof with a supply port for green coffee ... | 12/31/1991 |
| 4913045 | Polished-rice humidifying apparatus and rice milling system In an apparatus for humidifying polished rice, a conveyor has a tubular housing which defines a predetermined transport path for the polished rice. The conveyor conveys the polished rice, while steering the same, along the transport path. A humidifier is ... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4597977 | Method and apparatus for separating hulls and debris from plant products A machine frame has a foraminous, inclined screen drum mounted for rotation thereon with an opening in one end which receives the peas for engagement by flat paddles attached in spaced relation to a horizontal, internal paddle shaft supported for rotation... | 07/01/1986 |
| 4515075 | Rice polishing machine A rice polishing machine comprises a rotatable shaft, a polishing roll mounted on the shaft for rotation therewith, and a perforated cylindrical polishing assembly disposed in substantially concentric relation to the shaft. The cylindrical polishing assem... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4463665 | Pressure plate adjusting device for grain whitening apparatus Disclosed is an improvement in a pressure plate adjusting device for grain whitening apparatus which is capable of automatically and precisely adjusting the pressure of a pressure plate disposed at a rice outlet of a whitening chamber. The automatic adjus... | 08/07/1984 |
| 4331072 | Degerming of maize Apparatus and method for degerming maize are disclosed. The maize is introduced into a cylindrical, perforated working housing in which is mounted a rapidly rotating rotor which drives the maize along an annular working chamber between the rotor and housi... | 05/25/1982 |
| 4292890 | Grain polishing and whitening machine A grain polishing and whitening machine, particularly adapted for treatment of rice, comprises a base box, housing means having first, second, third and fourth coaxially arranged housing sections, said second housing section being coaxially mounted on sai... | 10/06/1981 |
| 4003303 | Apparatus for shelling and cleaning cereals Apparatus for shelling or husking cereals comprising a horizontally oriented rotatable drum, a perforated cylinder surrounding and spaced from the annular wall of the drum, a radial chamber on the inlet side of the drum, an annular chamber between the sur... | 01/18/1977 |
| 3960068 | Machine for whitening, polishing or pearling grains and cereals and more particularly rice A whitening, polishing or pearling machine for grains and cereals and more particularly for rice, vertically disposed, composed of an integral chamber which has an entry or grain feeder, said grain being transported to a section where it is treated in ord... | 06/01/1976 |
