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 |
| 7183486 | Liquid-tight connector with deformable o-ring A liquid tight connector for terminating one end of an elongate electrical conductor includes a connector body having a rearward conduit receiving end, an opposed forward end and a central bore therethrough. A gland nut is movably secured to the rearward conduit rec... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7180010 | Adjustable service entrance head (electrical) An adjustable electrical service entrance head device for minimizing a negative aesthetic impact of the electrical service cable or conduit assembly against the structure. The adjustable electrical service entrance head device includes a housing and a clamp member. ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7161087 | Module assembly with mounting integrity detection including deformable washer A module is mounted to a object with a fastener and a special washer. The fastener engages the object through a mounting opening in mounting portion of a module case. The washer has a first portion extending obliquely outward and downward to be deformed between the ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7148431 | Armored cable connector A cable connector terminates an armored cable in a knockout in a wall of an electrical enclosure. The connector includes a one-piece connector body having a forward end and plurality of side walls extending from the forward end in cantilevered fashion to define a ca... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7126064 | Connector for affixing cables within junction boxes A connector for affixing cables (e.g., of the type having wires bundled within a corrugated cover) within an electrical or other junction box has a body with a first end into which the cable cover (and the wires therein) may be inserted, and a second end configured ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7122749 | Locking device A device for locking a plurality of threads includes a first and a second element each of which is provided with a central opening. The first and second elements cooperate to delimit a labyrinth passage for the threads to be locked. The second element is provided wi... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7115822 | Indirect entry cable gland assembly A cable gland assembly adapted to receive a cable and to pass through an opening in a sparking enclosure wall, the cable gland assembly including a cable-receiving gland, a stuffing box, a grommet, an insulator and a cable. The stuffing box has an opening there thro... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7105750 | Low insertion force grommet A grommet mainly made of soft, pliable material has a flange section for sealing against a first side of a vehicle panel around an aperture through the panel. A groove separates the flange section from a conical section that tapers from the groove to a narrower tubu... | 09/12/2006 |
| 4520227 | Strain relief connection between a housing and an electric conductor assembly A strain relief connection between a housing and an electric conductor assembly. The housing is formed of two plastic housing parts (2,20) which meet with each other over a contact surface (47). The electric conductor assembly (42) includes stranded condu... | 05/28/1985 |
| 3931453 | Geophone case with improved cable anchor A geophone case with an improved internal cable anchor. The anchor has three parallel bores extending in a longitudinal direction for tightly accepting a cable therethrough, whereby the cable makes two 180.degree. bends which provide the necessary reactio... | 01/06/1976 |
