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 |
| 6073633 | Safety smoking pipe with internal ash-cleaning and tobacco-packing mechanisms The safety smoking pipe includes first and second parts telescopically receivable one within the other and rotatable relative to one another. The first part includes an elongated tube having a screen adjacent one end. The second part includes an elongated... | 06/13/2000 |
| 5726421 | Protective and cigarette ejection system for an electrical smoking system An ejection system is provided which has a mechanism such as a plunger which is positioned to eject at least a portion of a cigarette from the lighter cavity upon actuation by a smoker. The plunger is also positionable to occlude the lighter opening to pr... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5240012 | Carbon heat smoking article with reusable body A smoking article that produces no visible sidestream smoke in which at least the carbon heat source and the tobacco flavor producing elements can be ejected from a reusable body of the smoking article.... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5113879 | Lighted cigarette dispensing apparatus An apparatus for dispensing lighted cigarettes is provided comprising a magazine open at its base and divided inwardly by vertical and parallel dividing walls into compartments such receiving a stack of cigarettes of a given brand, each compartment being ... | 05/19/1992 |
| 4947873 | Micro-computer controlled fully automatic lighting unit A microcomputer-controlled fully automatic lighting unit has a transmission line including a motor and necessary driving mechanism which, when being started, is able to deliver cigarettes to a place where they will be lighted by an induced electric heatab... | 08/14/1990 |
