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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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090145559 | ROLLER BLIND SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE A shade arrangement for a motor vehicle with at least one shade length and at least one roller tube for taking-up and unrolling the shade length, each side edge of the shade length having at least one flexible, flat guide strip which extends along the drawing direction ... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20070277942 | Track and guide system for a door A vertically operating door and its drive system can be configured to push a door panel along a track to various overhead storage configurations including vertical, horizontal. inclined and coiled. Semi-flexible drive strips extend continuously along lateral edges of th... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070277943 | TRACK AND GUIDE SYSTEM FOR A DOOR A vertically operating door and its drive system can be configured to push a door panel along a track to various overhead storage configurations including vertical, horizontal, inclined and coiled. Semi-flexible drive strips extend continuously along lateral edges of th... | 12/06/2007 |
