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 |
| 6629611 | Granular object sorting apparatus A reciprocating rod of the ejector is borne in a non-sliding state by permanent magnets on the reciprocating rod and permanent magnets surrounding the reciprocating rod. The reciprocating rod linearly projects out and retracts by the reciprocating compone... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6364092 | Device for deviating rail-guided transport items from one rail track to another The deviating device (26, 26') for feeding transport items (12) occurring on the first rail track (14) to the second or third rail track (16, 18), which is arranged at an angle (, ') with respect to the first rail track (14), are arranged ly... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6357573 | Method and apparatus for separating and bringing together series of container bodies In order to separate tin can bodies carried by a first conveyor belt at a high speed, a second conveyor belt is taken close to the first conveyor belt and individual bodies are transferred from the first conveyor belt to the second conveyor belt. It is th... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6227348 | Method and apparatus for separating and bringing together series of container bodies In order to separate can bodies carried by a first conveyor belt at a high speed, a second conveyor belt is taken close to the first conveyor belt and individual bodies are transferred from the first conveyor belt to the second conveyor belt. It is thus p... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6042514 | Moving surface exercise device A novel moveable surface conveyor system, especially used as an exercise treadmill is disclosed. The surface is comprised of a plurality of deck members, each pivotally attached to the adjacent deck member, thus creating a continuous loop with an upper ru... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5458455 | Apparatus for stacking cartridge shell plates of a photographic film cartridge A cartridge shell plate stacking apparatus has a plurality of arms circulating along an annular cam rail. Each arm has a magnet in its distal end. The cam rail lowers the distal end of the arm in a pick-up station to cause the magnet to attract one of the... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5190136 | Magnetic guiding assembly for yarn packages transported on a textile machine A tube transport assembly is provided for individually transporting tubes of the type onto which yarn is wound on a textile machine. The tube transport assembly includes magnetic components for guiding and transporting the tube support members along a tra... | 03/02/1993 |
| 4618052 | Conveying apparatus A lane divider for the conveying of can body cylinders maintains the cylinders in line-ahead formation and in a predetermined orientation, e.g. with their welded side seams uppermost, by maintaining a positive hold on each cylinder at all times during its... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4356905 | Removing magnetic articles from a carrier Elongated magnetic diodes 12 are removed from a carrier 20 having a periphery along which the diodes 12 are advanced. A magnetic bin 75 has spaced sidewalls 76 and 77 extending to either side of the periphery of carrier 20. There is established between an... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4318943 | Apparatus for at least partly removing adhering liquid from and/or evenly distributing liquid over the surface of articles Apparatus for removing liquid from or evenly distributing liquid over magnetically attractible articles by using centrifugal forces. The articles are fed to a non-magnetic rotating drum, a helical series of magnets being arranged inside the drum adjacent ... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4277061 | Apparatus for classifying photographic prints or the like Apparatus for classifying photographic prints which are severed from the leader of a downwardly moving web of exposed and developed photographic paper has side walls which define a downwardly extending channel whose upper end constitutes an inlet for desc... | 07/07/1981 |
| 4138008 | Heavy duty conveyor A conveyor with laterally deflectable article transporting pallets is disclosed in which the pallets are mounted on a carriage-like structure having wheels which run in and are guided by heavy duty channels.... | 02/06/1979 |
