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 |
| 7311050 | Systems for the control and use of fluids and particles The configuration of a feedstock material is controlled by bringing it into contact with at least a first gas moving against it at a location with an area and thickness of the feedstock liquid that forms drops or fibers of a selected size. In one embodiment, drops o... | 12/25/2007 |
| 5988082 | Germination promoter and sowing method for seeds of plant A germination promotor for promoting germination of plants, the germination promotor being adapted to hold seeds within a condition of high moisture percent in order to sprout the seeds promptly and uniformly without need for water irrigation, with the re... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5787824 | Method for planting gel-coated seeds A method of planting gel-coated seeds comprising previously making the seeds sprout a root and then sowing the seeds with the tip of the root facing downward.... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5127186 | Encapsulated earthworm cocoons Gel capsules having a size approximately equal to that of the seed being planted and which contain: (a) an earthworm cocoon having one or more viable eggs; and (b) a material to provide a density to the capsules approximately equal to that of the seed bei... | 07/07/1992 |
| 4779776 | Seeding device A seeding device to dispense seed suspended in a gel or other carrier medium in either a continuous stream or discrete pulses. A coulter opens a furrow of earth to the proper depth and seed carried in a gel or other suspension medium is delivered in a pul... | 10/25/1988 |
| 4703868 | Apparatus for metering and dispensing seeds Apparatus for metering and dispensing seeds from a liquid or gel suspension of seeds includes a rotor having a plurality of orifices disposed within concave-shaped recesses about the peripheral surface of the rotor, each recess communicating with a bore o... | 11/03/1987 |
| 4632284 | Seeding device A seeding device to dispense seed suspended in a gel or other carrier medium in either a continuous stream or discrete pulses. A coulter opens a furrow of earth to the proper depth and seed carried in a gel or other suspension medium is delivered in a pul... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4306508 | Planter with a melter for forming holes in plastic sheeting on the ground A planter is provided which automatically deposits equally-spaced, sprout-bearing plugs of specially prepared nutriet soil into the ground. The planter can also be equipped with a supply tank and pipe for adding a measured quantity of gel containing water... | 12/22/1981 |
| 4224882 | Apparatus for sowing seeds in suspension The invention provides an apparatus for sowing seeds in a liquid suspension in which a peristaltic pump supplies the suspension to the ground at a position behind and above the lower part of a drill coulter.... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4055126 | Sub-soil breaking, surface-soil conditioning and planter machine In a preferred embodiment of the invention, a trailer-like multi-sectioned frame is mounted on supporting spaced-apart wheels adjustable intermittently of the height of the frame and having mounted on the various sections of the frame, functional elements... | 10/25/1977 |
