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 |
| 4437294 | Volumetric batching device for providing predetermined batches of a fluent material Volume batcher for fluent materials, particularly suitable for high speed packaging machines of filter-bags for infusion products such as tea, camomile and similar which comprises a cylindrical drum provided with radial pockets rotating about an horizonta... | 03/20/1984 |
| 4361176 | Soup dispenser A soup dispenser is provided which will dispense liquid, semi-liquid and/or chunky soups, stews, chilis, etc., with equal facility. A motor-driven dial configuration of a plurality of measuring chambers or traps is provided at the bottom of a heated reser... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4253591 | Mercury doser A mercury doser for automatically and accurately dosing arc tubes at high production rates comprises a rotatable stainless steel metering plate sandwiched between tetrafluoroethylene discs. The plate contains a graduated series of metering cavities of whi... | 03/03/1981 |
| 4212332 | Manually operated pump for dispensing product from a container The present pump has a manually operated actuator frictionally coupled to a floating valve to dispense liquid or other fluent product from a container. The floating valve coacts with the actuator and the pump housing to control: (1) the inlet flow of prod... | 07/15/1980 |
| 4174057 | Liquid measuring and dispensing devices A liquid measuring and dispensing device has a central flow tube sealingly surrounded by a measuring chamber slidable relative to the flow tube so as to bring respective ports in the flow tube and the chamber into register for filling and emptying the cha... | 11/13/1979 |
| 4109832 | Pumping system having a pressure release A non-pulsating, non-throttling, vented pumping system with pressure release features is disclosed. This pumping system provides continuous dispensing of fluent product from a container in a relatively non-pulsating discharge which may be a stream or spra... | 08/29/1978 |
| 4017031 | Miniature atomizer of manual type A miniature type, rechargeable atomizing spray mechanism including a receptacle for the liquid to be atomized, and further including a cap and axially aligned first and second pressure chambers, one of which depends within the receptacle while the other p... | 04/12/1977 |
