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 |
| 6287370 | Drain discharge apparatus Disclosed is a drain discharge apparatus comprising a float provided displaceably in response to drain stored at the inside of a filter case, a handle formed with a drain discharge port for discharging the drain stored in the filter case to the outside, a... | 09/11/2001 |
| 4921215 | Reducing valve assembly with spherically shaped operating part In a reducing valve assembly having a fluid inlet port and a fluid outlet port with a main valve for controlling flow between the inlet and outlet port, the main valve includes a main valve member which is actuated by an operating piston including a pisto... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4860782 | Reducing valve equipped with a vapor-liquid separator In a reducing valve assembly including a vapor-liquid separator, a valve casing, having therein a valve mechanism defining a valve orifice and defining inlet and outlet openings having the reducing valve mechanism interposed therebetween, is arranged with... | 08/29/1989 |
