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 |
| 7055893 | Floor structure of vehicle There is provided a floor structure of a vehicle, which can ensure the safety for a passenger in the event of frontal crash. A toe board is connected to the front end of a floor panel in a manner being raised upward. A cross member is fixed to the rear part of the f... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7021450 | Device and method to correct uneven spacing of successive articles A device for correcting uneven spacing of successive articles includes a first conveyor belt having a plurality of articles spaced thereon. At least one article is unevenly spaced. A second conveyor belt is located downstream of the first conveyor belt upon which th... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6302260 | Apparatus for correcting the position of flat objects conveyed in an overlapping stream The apparatus has a first conveyor 10 and a second conveyor 16 mounted immediately downstream thereof. Arranged above the first conveyor 10 is a position changing device 50, whose displacement elements 68 are intended to strike the trailing edge 22' of fe... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6158735 | Apparatus and method for splitting a stream of signatures into a first and second substream of signatures A stream of signatures is delivered by a conveyer belt to an angled conveyer. The angled conveyor grips a set of signatures from the stream. The gripped set of signatures is transported by the angled conveyer to a third conveyer belt, and deposited on the... | 12/12/2000 |
| 5609335 | High capacity stacker/separating device A high capacity conveyor assembly is utilizable with pressure sealers or other business forms manufacturing or handling equipment to efficiently handle forms that may be job separated, and provides high capacity outfeed. An infeed conveyor has a first hor... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5558319 | Web stacker and separator with sheet offsetting kicker An apparatus for stacking and separating sheets of web material provides a conveyor for transporting the sheets from a source of sheets. The sheets are conveyed in a stream that is aligned in a downstream direction from a source to a stacking location. A ... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5366212 | Web-fed sheet stacker and separator An apparatus for stacking and separating sheets of web material provides a conveyor for transporting the sheets from a source of sheets. The sheets are conveyed in a stream that is aligned in a downstream direction from a source to a stacking location. A ... | 11/22/1994 |
| 4941650 | Vacuum counter for stacked signatures An apparatus for forming an indicium in a stream of moving signatures, consisting of a signature displaced laterally from the stream and corresponding to a predetermined count of signatures, comprises an idler roller mechanism connected with a rotatable i... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4765451 | Apparatus and method for segregating counted slugs of flats An apparatus for handling a plurality of flat, collapsed, folded paper boxes which have been produced on a high speed, folder-gluer, delivered in shingled formation onto the advancing apron of a stacker, counted into slugs of about fifty each and must be ... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4732262 | Apparatus for segregating counted slugs of flats An apparatus for handling a plurality of flat, collapsed, folded paper boxes which have been produced on a high speed, folder-gluer, delivered in shingled formation onto the advancing apron of a stacker, counted into slugs of about fifty each and must be ... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4038909 | Method and apparatus for counting a plurality of folded box blanks in a stream of box blanks and separating the counted blanks as a batch A method and apparatus for counting a predetermined number of folded box blanks which are disposed on edge in a continuous flow and for separating the predetermined number of box blanks from the flow as a batch characterized by holding the flow immobile, ... | 08/02/1977 |
