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 |
| 6547283 | Mounting system for a portfolio A system for mounting a component to a portfolio including a tongue located on the component, the tongue having a tail portion and a tip portion, and a portfolio having a tongue opening formed therein. The top can be inserted into the tongue opening and c... | 04/15/2003 |
| 5407512 | Apparatus for mounting photographic prints and method of using same An apparatus for accurately, efficiently, and consistently aligning a tabbing strip with the edges of the photographic print to which it is to be applied. The apparatus comprises a support panel, a tabbing strip registration guide, a photographic print re... | 04/18/1995 |
| 4699833 | Label A label for attachment to a product, the label including an integral sheet and envelope having a sheet portion such as a sheet of printed instructions, and an envelope portion for removably carrying the sheet portion, the sheet portion and envelope portio... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4534582 | Adhesive labels An adhesive label for a container includes an instruction pamphlet 10 enclosed in a cover 11 adhesively secured by its rear face to the front face of a backing sheet 12, the rear face of which is coated with a pressure sensitive adhesive and carries a rem... | 08/13/1985 |
| 4427387 | Drawing toy Disclosed is a drawing toy which includes a plurality of light transmitting carriers that are manually movable past a writing platen which supports portions of the carrier. Each carrier has on its surface a series of different figure fragments which inhib... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4416470 | Device for obtaining accurate registration of handwritten impressions on continuous business form sets The invention is directed to a device for obtaining accurate registration of handwritten impressions on continuous business form sets which are detachable into individual form sets by means of longitudinally spaced transverse perforations. The device incl... | 11/22/1983 |
