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 |
| 7419340 | Drain cleaning apparatus Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for removing by-product chips, in existing CNC machining center. The apparatus is using parasite driven rotating carousel, capable of moving chips away from the drain of an existing machine. There is a possibility of installing... | 09/02/2008 |
| 5586848 | Machine tool chip removal system Apparatus capable of performing wet and dry machining processes such as a hobbing machine for producing spur and helical gears, shafts, splines, and the like, by wet and dry hobbing methods. The apparatus comprises means to remove metal chips resulting fr... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5289910 | Transport apparatus A textile machine transport apparatus is provided for transporting tube support members to and between locations at which yarn packages supported on the tube support members are handled. The transport apparatus includes an assembly for advancing the tube ... | 03/01/1994 |
| 4944381 | Multi-directional vibratory conveyor A multi-directional vibratory conveyor is disclosed which includes a vibratory base plate which supports a plurality of fingers that project through holes in an alignment grill and in an adjustable grill. An article supported on the fingers is moved recti... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4907692 | Container translating and orienting apparatus and method An apparatus is disclosed for controlling the movement of flat bottomed articles in a plurality of different directions relative to a supporting platform. The article is supported on a plurality of clusters of helical, freely rotatable rollers mounted on ... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4143753 | Conveying arrangement This invention pertains to an arrangement for conveying, handling and storing of solid bodies, bulk material, jelly products or liquids, which arrangement characterized by a plurality of rotary shafts arranged at a distance apart from each other, each of ... | 03/13/1979 |
