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 |
| 5040550 | Tobacco treatment apparatus and process Dried tobacco leaves evenly spread by a vibrator, cleaned and sorted out, are directed through the opening of two converging cylinders, and tightly held on between two belts. Now, the belts carrying the leaves, enter into a hot wash basin full of warm wat... | 08/20/1991 |
| 4817639 | Tobacco leaf cleaning device A tobacco leaf cleaning device for removing foreign particles, such as lint and string, from tobacco leaves as the tobacco moves from one point to another on a conveyor in a processing plant, is in the form of a flexible canvas sheet suspended from a rod ... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4809716 | Tobacco leaf cleaning machine A tobacco leaf cleaning system for removing foreign particles such as lint and string from tobacco leaves comprises a succession of side-by-side rollers mounted for rotation in the same direction for transfering tobacco leaves supplied thereto from one ro... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4620556 | Loose leaf chewing tobacco A loose leaf chewing tobacco product is prepared from leaf tobacco by removing the stems and major veins, then cutting the leaves across the grain of the remaining veins in a uniform manner with the cuts being spaced no greater than 1/4 inch apart, then c... | 11/04/1986 |
| 4307808 | Apparatus for refining herbage A device for cleaning or refining herbage or herbal substances which operates to separate out twigs, seeds or other roughage by an agitating and straining process. The device includes a cylindrical main body internally divided into a pair of chambers by a... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4273140 | Device for spreading individual tobacco leaf halves A device for spreading individual tobacco leaf halves, comprising a first conveyor formed by two endless elements, the operative runs of which are in contact with one another for clamping an edge part of the tobacco leaf portion and by a second conveyor, ... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4243057 | Process for spreading tobacco leaves A process for spreading out tobacco leaves for use in particular as cigar wrappers, comprising the steps of putting the leaves in contact with a liquid, preferably water, and bringing about a relative movement of the leaves and the liquid in contact with ... | 01/06/1981 |
| 4050467 | Apparatus for orienting tobacco leaves Apparatus and method are disclosed for producing a compact strand of tobacco leaves in which the stems of the leaves are oriented predominantly longitudinally of the strand. Tobacco leaves distributed onto a horizontal conveyor in loose, randomly distribu... | 09/27/1977 |
