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 |
| 7287819 | Vehicle wheel and adapter A vehicle wheel adapter system for mounting different wheel hubs with protruding lugs, while allowing for quick assembly and disassembly can comprise a rim having a periphery for supporting a tire, a web plate for mounting on the opposed side of the rim, a plurality... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7210748 | Motorcycle hub adapter A motorcycle hub adapter for shaft driven motorcycles that permits a user to mount any custom wheel to a shaft driven motorcycle assembly. The adapter includes a housing that has a substantially hemispherical shape with a convex side with an opposite relatively flat... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7111909 | Drum and wheel centering sleeve, kit and method A drum and wheel-centering sleeve disclosed for vehicle drum and wheels having apertures of uniform diameter is a set of three that are threaded on three circumferentially spaced hub bolts on which a wheel drum is mounted to center the wheel drum. The sleeve has a h... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7093909 | Visual and thermal shield system There is disclosed herein a visual and thermal shield system that effectively obscures visual indicators and thermal signatures of wheel assemblies of a military vehicle to thereby address longstanding military concerns for vehicle and crew survivability. Our device... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7025552 | Assembly for automatically compensating variations in the spacing between two structural members An assembly for automatically compensating variations of the spacing between first and second structural members due to manufacturing and/or mounting tolerances. The assembly comprises a mounting bolt, a base element, and an adjustment sleeve. The adjustment sleeve ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6913323 | Wheel having spokes with V-shaped cross-sections A wheel for a motor vehicle has a wheel hub connected with a wheel rim by spokes. In order to create a wheel for a motor vehicle which has low weight and high stability, spokes arranged between the wheel hub and the rim are constructed such that, in first areas conn... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6783188 | Method of fitting tire-and-wheel assembled body to axle Provided is a method of fitting a tire-and-wheel assembled body to an axle, which is capable of resolving imbalance in a state of fitting an assembled body including a tire and a wheel to an axle. In this fitting method, a tire is fitted to a wheel, and then core po... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6626502 | Wheel adaptor plate system A wheel adaptor plate system for permitting mounting of a wheel rim onto a hub having a different lug bolt pattern. The wheel adaptor plate system includes a plate member comprising a plurality of mounting apertures extending through the plate member. The... | 09/30/2003 |
| 5785391 | Wheel adapter A wheel adapter for mounting a wheel on a vehicle having a plurality of wheel mounting studs arranged in a bolt circle of a given diameter on a wheel hub, the wheel having a plurality of holes arranged in a bolt circle of a diameter substantially differen... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5362134 | Motor-vehicle wheel Wheel structure for mounting a tire to a hub-supporting drum of a motor vehicle includes a wheel, a spacer flange interposed between a hub of the wheel and the hub-supporting drum of the motor vehicle, and an adapting flange by which the hub of the wheel ... | 11/08/1994 |
| 4165904 | Wheel adaptor device An adaptor bolt to permit fitting wheels having a given bolt hole circle diameter to wheel studs having a different circle diameter. The kit is made up of a plurality of adaptor bolts each comprising an internally threaded bore located eccentrically in th... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4036530 | Wheel adaptor device An adaptor bolt to permit fitting wheels having a given bolt hole circle diameter to wheel studs having a different circle diameter. The kit is made up of a plurality of adaptor bolts each comprising an internally threaded bore located eccentrically in th... | 07/19/1977 |
