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 |
| 7185609 | Hog farrowing system for use in a cold environment and method of use A hog farrowing system for use in a cold environment includes a building providing protection from weather elements. The farrowing boxes have an entrance to permit free ingress and egress of female hogs but restrain the piglets. An alley is provided outside the boxe... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7178484 | Apparatus for raising a sow in a farrowing crate In a farrowing pen which includes a pit and over the pit a first floor portion on which the sow can stand and lie and two further floor portions on each side of the first floor portion for receiving piglets of the sow and confining walls for locating the sow on the ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7165509 | Hog farrowing system for use in a cold environment and method of use A hog farrowing system for use in a cold environment includes a building providing protection from weather elements. The farrowing boxes have an entrance to permit free ingress and egress of female hogs but restrain the piglets. An alley is provided outside the boxe... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7165508 | Hog farrowing system for use in a cold environment and method of use A hog farrowing system for use in a cold environment includes a building providing protection from weather elements. The farrowing boxes have an entrance to permit free ingress and egress of female hogs but restrain the piglets. An alley is provided outside the boxe... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7013837 | Method for building environment-affinitive pigpen and pigpen structure A pig pen structure has a walking passage and a plurality of pig houses for housing an animal installed along the walking passage. Each pig house has an evacuation room, a lodging room having front, back, and two side walls, and an evacuation room gate installed bet... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6382135 | Pig pen A pig pen has side walls joined together by end walls to form a substantially rectangular enclosure. An angled divider is pivotable inside the pen, having a first end pivotably arranged on a pivot on one end wall and second end attachable to any one of a ... | 05/07/2002 |
| 5701705 | Prefabricated modular portable livestock shelter A prefabricated modular portable livestock shelter shipped unassembled includes a pair of end walls 22 and 24 attached to a side wall 26. In addition a roof 28 is attached to the end walls 22 and 24, and the side wall 26. The end walls 22 and 24 are conne... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5099793 | Farrowing shed A farrowing shed constructed to reduce the incidence of crushing of the infant pigs by the sow during farrowing and to facilitate the maintenance and servicing of the shed during usage, the shed having a pair of sidewalls, front and back walls connecting ... | 03/31/1992 |
| 4471719 | Animal farrowing stall with sibling protector A farrowing stall having sidewalls and end walls includes a U-shaped downwardly and inwardly facing member pivotally connected to the stall sidewalls for being pivoted between a raised vertical position to a downwardly horizontal position for limiting mov... | 09/18/1984 |
| 4419961 | Milking parlor construction An improved milking parlor construction comprising the combination of a modular unit which comprises a module which may be utilized in fabricating milking parlors of the type wherein a central milking pit area has juxtapositioned on either side a cattle s... | 12/13/1983 |
| 4359967 | Farrowing house A farrowing house for a sow, a method of fabricating an animal shelter, and a mold for casting a reinforced concrete animal shelter. The house or shelter includes a crib structure defining two sets of spaced rails having at least one set pivotally connect... | 11/23/1982 |
| 4341492 | Method for pneumatically handling agglomerative materials A method for pneumatically handling material having a slurry-like consistency such as chicken hatchery waste material includes a hopper for accepting the waste material, a receiver for accumulating the waste material and duct work which is connected betwe... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4269146 | Hog farrowing house A hog farrowing house and pen is provided which is especially designed to promote the safety and healthful development of young pigs, and to significantly lower pig mortality. The house and pen structure is relatively compact, can be moved at will, and pr... | 05/26/1981 |
| 4227485 | Farrowing house A farrowing house constructed to provide an insulated, weather-tight structure and arranged interiorly with laterally spaced protections for the pigs without stressing the sow in an enclosure, and in which the pig protection is arranged in raised position... | 10/14/1980 |
| 4207837 | Apparatus for a dairy barn An apparatus used in a dairy barn that facilitates access to the dairy animals for milking, which comprises a fixed platform on which the animals stand during milking, a fixed support surface adjacent and lower than the platform, a floor adjacent the plat... | 06/17/1980 |
| 4169048 | Anaerobic fermentation of excreta in a collapsible bag A waste treatment system and method for anaerobic fermentation of animal excreta. The system includes a collection gutter for containing the excreta until a predetermined portion becomes liquified. When the liquid excreta reaches a predetermined level it ... | 09/25/1979 |
