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 |
| 6988848 | Drip berm having hydrophobic and hydrocarbon retentive properties A drip berm for mounting onto a drip mat includes one or more inner berm members and one or more cooperating outer berm members. Each inner berm member is mountable contiguously around the circumferential edges of the drip mat. Each outer berm member is mountable al... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6959830 | Metal container with thread A metal container with thread capable of preventing such a defect that the strength of a lower end of a mouth part and an upper end of a shoulder part of a container main body is non-resistant to a pressing force in radial and axial directions, and a part of the con... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6609627 | Thermally insulated microwave cooking container A container comprising an inner thermoformed vessel (1) and an outer thermoformed vessel (2), arranged the one within the other. The side walls (9) of the outer forming (2) surround the side walls (10) of the inner forming (1). The outer side walls has in... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6419103 | Bamboo basket A bamboo basket includes a bottom frame, a top open frame, a plurality of peripheral side panels respectively connected between the bottom frame and the top open frame and abutted against one another at an angle and defining with the bottom frame and the ... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6318582 | Enameled slide-in unit A slide-in unit for a baking oven with enameled guideways in oven muffle sidewall regions includes a tray with two opposite lateral supporting regions each respectively with a curled lateral edge region having at least one notch and a sliding clip clampin... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6158233 | Vacuum insulated refrigerator or freezer cabinet The walls of a refrigerator or freezer cabinet comprise an inner shell (20) of plastic, an outer shell (22) of plastic and an evacuated heat insulation (28) between the shells. The cabinet is permanently provided with a vacuum pump (30), which keeps the i... | 12/12/2000 |
| 5810194 | Collapsible bowl-like container A portable collapsible vessel for holding a fluid or other substance formed of a rigid but flexible thin loop through and over which is passed the edge of sheet material formed to define a cavity terminating in a mouth defined by said edge area. Said edge... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5727707 | Hepa filtered storage canisters Plutonium powders are stored in stainless steel canisters with stainless steel lids. The stainless steel canisters are extruded and have no interior welds. Each canister includes a vent with an integral HEPA filter. The canisters are of various capacities... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5590807 | Reformed container end The present invention is a reformed container end and a method of forming the container end. The container end includes a center panel surrounded by a countersink having an inner wall, an outer wall, and a countersink bottom. The countersink bottom includ... | 01/07/1997 |
| 4852793 | Sealed container and process of manufacture thereof A sealed container and method for manufacturing the same is disclosed in which the sealed container has a waterproof container barrel body made of paper and having opposing open ends, and a pair of closure members, one for each end, with each closure memb... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4585159 | Collapsible container and frame A collapsible container comprising two pairs of opposed walls, bottom flaps connected to the walls forming a container bottom, and lock panels connected to two of the bottom flaps and projecting into the interior of the container in abutting engagement. T... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4405058 | Container This disclosure relates to a product, the process for making same from precoated metal and the tool used for making the product. The product is a concurrently drawn and ironed sanitary food can wherein the side wall thickness of the container is relativel... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4380301 | Staked reinforced strips A mechanical connection for securing a reinforcing strip to a flange on a deep-drawn receptacle, such as an oil pan, includes a tab formed on the outer edge of the flange, and opposed notches formed on edges of the reinforcing strip. The notches are align... | 04/19/1983 |
| 4135634 | Container or like structure A container or like structure having a corrugated tubular base or wall at least partly embraced by a thin, pliable sheet clamped in place by a like corrugated collar embracing both the sheet and the tube so that the corrugations intermesh, deforming and s... | 01/23/1979 |
| 4029232 | Single-piece aluminium container for aerosols To reduce the mechanical stresses in the curled area of the mouth of an aerosol container (made of aluminium), a reinforcing ring, having either a closed loop or an open structure, is inserted so as to be completely encircled by the curled portion of the ... | 06/14/1977 |
