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 |
| 7048132 | Synthetic resin bottle A blow-molded synthetic resin bottle that can be fully flattened and easily restored to an original shape. The bottle includes at least a line of turn is formed on the shoulder, the body, and the bottom along the entire vertical circumference. Among the sections div... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6286798 | Versatile beverage container holder A beverage container holder (2000) that can be attached to horizontal or vertical members, that can be compacted and that can accept cylindrical and frustoconical beverage containers and mugs. Preferably a strap (130) is wrapped in the middle of the bever... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6012601 | Metal can with profiled body A sheet-metal can for foodstuffs or drink, comprising a body and a bottom fixed thereto or formed integrally therewith, which body has a generally rotation-symmetrical form onto which a pattern of depressions is superimposed and is characterized by at lea... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5919365 | Filter device for drinking container A drinking container includes a flexible, hollow body having a neck. There is closure member removably connected to the neck. There is a spout on the closure member. A filter device is operatively connected to the spout within the body. The filter device ... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5746339 | Plastics bottle that, when empty, is collapsible by axial compression A plastics material bottle is collapsible by applying axial compression, the bottle comprising a cylindrical body having a polygonal cross-section, e.g. a section that is substantially square or rectangular with rounded corners (18), the body being formed... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5642826 | Collapsible container A semi-rigid container, has a semi-rigid folding portion consisting of the plurality of diamond shaped panels forming a frustoconical shape. The panels are arced relative to the interconnecting frustoconical substrate in the transverse and longitudinal di... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5632397 | Axially-crushable bottle made of plastics material, and tooling for manufacturing it An axially crushable bottle made of plastics material and formed with transverse corrugations over the major portion of its height has fold starters in each corrugation, which fold starters project outwards from the bottoms of the corrugations and are ang... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5538180 | Paper cup having a collapsible bottom A paper cup comprises a cylindrical body having an open top and a bottom which is provided on the underside thereof with a plurality of waterproof tearing traces radiating from the center of the underside and is further provided centrally on the underside... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5413244 | Open-topped can body with panelled side walls A sheet metal can body 1 comprises an end wall 2 and a tubular side wall 3 which includes a plurality of flexible panels 4 recessed within the cylindrical envelope of the side wall and extending between plain cylindrical end portions 5 of the side wall. E... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5240130 | Compressible bottle A compressible body comprising a container and a flexible annular wall member, and the container, in turn, includes a cylindrical side wall and a prestressed locking member. The side wall of the container forms an upper edge and defines a cylindrical spac... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5135132 | Collapsible inflatable beverage container An inflatable beverage container defined by concentric inner and outer cylindrical walls which further define an annular chamber therebetween, the cylindrical walls terminating in a semi-rigid inverted "V shaped" upper lip which defines a top end of the c... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5065879 | Collapsible multi-layer insulator for a beverage container A multi-layer insulator for a beverage container which includes an externally threaded base and a main sleeve extending upwardly from the base and having a collapsible side wall. The main sleeve comprises an exterior fabric layer, an interior fabric or ne... | 11/19/1991 |
| 4872576 | Soft-metal made can body with squashing guides Disclosed is a soft-metal made can body which comprises spiral pressure-squashing guides indicated on an outer peripheral surface of the can body. The outer peripheral surface of the can body is pressed along the spiral pressure-squashing guides so as to ... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4860908 | Crushable container and method for weakening the container A cylindrical metal container is weakened along folding regions to aid crushing by hand or when using a can crusher. The weakened folding regions are created by nondeformably weakening the material strength of the container along the folding regions. This... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4744476 | Collapsible infant feeding bottle An infant feeding bottle provides a collapsible main body portion in order to prevent injury. Collapsibility is provided by elongate structures having hinge points at their ends and at their center. The elongate structures are located within the wall of t... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4610366 | Round juice bottle formed from a flexible material A distortion-resistant, round, multi-layer plastic bottle for the packaging of at least 48 fl. oz. of an oxygen-sensitive, hot-fill product such as tomato juice or a citrus juice, the material used in the construction of the bottle including a layer of an... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4377191 | Collapsible container A collapsible container comprising collapsible stepped walls which are formed by alternating substantially horizontal surfaces and substantially vertical surfaces.... | 03/22/1983 |
