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 |
| 6100492 | Consumable switching arrangement A wreath of contact fingers (4) directed radially toward a switching axis (1) presses in the closed position against the circumferential surface of a contact pin (2) with consumable heads (5) fitted on the ends. At an angle of approximately 90°, the cont... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5224592 | High voltage switch device and high-voltage change-over switch The disclosure relates to high-voltage change-over switches that are used to apply high voltage alternately to two X-ray tubes. Each of the four switch devices constituting a change-over switch includes a fixed contact element connected to an input termin... | 07/06/1993 |
| 4357508 | High-voltage circuit breaker Disclosed is a multipole high-voltage circuit breaker of the type comprising a housing into which two stationary contacts per pole extend and a rotatable current bridge which connects and disconnects the stationary contacts upon rotation thereof. Both the... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4152560 | Stationary contact structure for high voltage gas blast circuit interrupter with deformed slotted contact finger configuration A stationary contact structure for a gas blast circuit interrupter consists of a conductive hollow cylinder which is slotted to define contact fingers, and the ends of the contact fingers are inwardly deformed so that the ends of the fingers closely abut ... | 05/01/1979 |
