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 |
| 7340859 | Planter with folding legs A planter includes a wire basket having horizontal parallel top rings, bottom rings, and connected vertical wires. Four folding legs each include a top loop rotatably attached to the bottom rings. The legs when in their extended down position each include a short in... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7258063 | Barbeque grilling bag A body portion constructed of loosely interlocked solid metal interconnected members assembled adjacent to each other to form a receptacle. A top layer of the interconnected members is supported by a pair of wire frame members pivotably engaged at opposite ends to p... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7213821 | Expandable cart apparatus An expandable cart apparatus includes a cart that has a bottom wall, a front wall, a back wall, a first side wall and a second side wall. The cart includes four vertically orientated corners each defining a post with an open upper end. A plurality of wheels is rotat... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7175139 | Bag holder for holding a bag in an upright and open position A bag holder (75) is adapted to hold a flexible bag (B) in an upright and open position. The bag holder includes a wire-frame member (78) having a back portion, a top portion, a left side portion, and a right side portion, and a bag bottom support (... | 02/13/2007 |
| 6971535 | Containment vessel A containment vessel formed from at least two rigid panels placed in a parallel plane having a spacer positioned between the panels wherein a containment area is formed along an upper surface of the spacer and inner surface of the rigid panels. The spacer can be for... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6892895 | Collapsible container A collapsible container configured to lay substantially flat in a collapsed position and maintain an extended or usable position by utilizing load-bearing means rigidly disposed among and affixed to various support members. The load-bearing means are adapted to rece... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6588620 | Knockdown hamper A knockdown, or collapsible, hamper including a frame formed from two generally U-shaped supports with bottom portions and upstanding members. The bottom portions are pivotally connected and positioned perpendicularly with respect to one another for assem... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6354455 | Container basket A folding collapsible container basket is constructed to include a rectangular top open frame, a plurality of U-shaped bottom wire rods pivotally connected between two long sides of the top open frame and arranged in parallel, a bottom rack coupled to the... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6209747 | Liner bag nozzle retainer A liner bag nozzle retainer including a support means with a nozzle receiving aperture (10) and a pair of partly overlapping shutters mounted on the support through track means (26) in the shutters (25) engaged with track followers (27) fixed to the suppo... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6179150 | Support frame and cart for collapsible refuse bag A folding wire frame includes first and second end panels and first and second pairs of hingedly coupled front and back panels, with each front and back panel also hingedly coupled to an adjacent end panel. When expanded, the folding wire frame forms a re... | 01/30/2001 |
| 5967360 | Frictionally engaged adjustable wire basket A frictionally adjustable wire basket having a bottom or base section and a continuous, circumferential wall section connected thereto. The wall section is comprised of a plurality of intertwined, frictionally engaged resilient wire loops. Each of the wir... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5960983 | Collapsible garbage receptacle A collapsible garbage receptacle which includes a base having an upright outer wall raised around the periphery and a plurality of equiangularly spaced upright retaining flanges surrounded by the upright outer wall; an annular top cover frame having a plu... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5673611 | Slow cooker foodstuff lifter A foodstuff lifter for slow cooker units which units are normally of deep sided configuration. The lifter includes a lower, footed, rack member and an upper ring member which members are attached through flexible links or through solid links which permit ... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5305686 | Fry basket An improved basket for the preparation of fried food products includes a wire mesh bottom wall and three upstanding wire mesh side walls. A perforate gate is pivotally attached along the fourth side of the basket and is secured in a closed configuration b... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5267664 | Folding basket A folding basket having pivotable sides allowing the basket to attain and sustain a number of configurations. A platform providing support for items held within the basket has upper and lower pivotable sides connected at its perimeter. Likewise, a rim all... | 12/07/1993 |
| 4949860 | Container storage apparatus A container storage apparatus is set forth wherein a series of stacked continuous loops overlie one another movably associated relative to one another by a series of link members with internal link members between interior loops defined by a central pivot... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4629086 | Collapsible and stackable material handling container A collapsible and stackable material handling container comprising a collapsible basket defined by a bottom support wall, a rear wall hinged along a bottom edge to a rear edge of the bottom wall, a pair of side walls each hinged at a vertical rear edge to... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4247130 | Shopping cart construction A folding two-wheeled shopping cart having a rigid rear panel, a pair of hinged side panels, a flexible fabric front panel, and a bottom panel hingedly interconnected at a rear edge thereof to the rear panel. The bottom panel is provided with a manually e... | 01/27/1981 |
