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 |
| 6018290 | Apparatus for permitting quiet manual setting of an appliance timer having a bell chime assembly associated therewith A timer for controlling an appliance includes a bell chime assembly having a striker, a torsion spring, and a bell. The striker is secured to the torsion spring. The timer further includes a cam follower operatively coupled to the torsion spring. The cam ... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5812499 | Time setting control mechanism for a mechanical timer A time setting control mechanism mounted in a mechanical timer and driven to automatically start or stop a machine at a given time, including, a hollow time counting wheel, a dial mounted in the time counting wheel, the dial having a center through hole, ... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5077707 | Time setting device for an alarm clock A circular plate used in a time setting device has a through-hole, a plurality of arched protrusions extending downward from the bottom of the same and a pair of arched projections extending upward from the periphery of the through-hole. Each arched protr... | 12/31/1991 |
| 4530607 | Alarm and reset circuit for a countdown timer A battery-powered alarm and reset circuit for a conventional electromechanical countdown timing mechanism which drives a set of cam-actuated main contacts. The circuit renders both a visual and an audible alarm at zero countdown time. The rotation of a ti... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4504154 | Indexing element for switching a chronometer An indexing unit in the form of a disc or an endless tape for switching chronometers has a number of programmable switch tabs disposed at an edge of the element forming a unitary structure, the switch tabs being depressable against the influence of a rest... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4488820 | Time signalling device for a timepiece which produces musical sounds A device for generating musical time signalling signals for a timepiece in which combination of the data in ROM installed in the time signalling sound selecting circuit and the controlling action of the time signalling control circuit can simplify the cir... | 12/18/1984 |
| 4465381 | Timepiece with modular alarm activating mechanism The present invention concerns a timepiece having an alarm activating mechanism that serves for effecting the closure of an electrical contact (5a, 9) at a time which is adjustable in advance. The mechanism is arranged in the form of a module (100) which ... | 08/14/1984 |
| 4443113 | Electromechanical trigger for alarm clocks and other timer-operated signal emitters An alarm clock has a cambered leaf spring traversed by a nest of clock-hand shafts projecting from a mounting plate designed as a printed-circuit board. The leaf spring is supported at opposite ends by posts rising from the mounting plate and is limitedly... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4376994 | Time detecting device for alarm clock The cam type time detecting mechanism of an alarm clock has a time gear wheel, an alarm gear wheel and a detecting plate, all mounted on a shaft. A hole is formed on either the alarm gear wheel or the detecting plate and a projection is formed on the othe... | 03/15/1983 |
| 4371267 | Time detecting device for alarm clock In the time detecting device of an alarm clock is provided with an hour gear wheel and an alarm gear wheel, each having an indication hand, engaging with a second hour gear wheel and a second alarm gear wheel respectively. An detecting cam plate is provid... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4358838 | Electronic timepiece with a time striking device An electronic timepiece with a time striking device including an electric preliminary signalling means, an electric time striking means, an electric contact means, a time striking selecting means, and a time striking timing circuit in which a timer circui... | 11/09/1982 |
| 4346270 | Timing mechanism with a digital clock A digital clock is coupled to a cam means of a timing mechanism so that the clock can indicate the time remaining of a cycle provided by the cam means. One of the display wheels of the clock is intermittently rotated through the stored energy of a torsion... | 08/24/1982 |
| 4298972 | Alarm signaling time detecting device for leaf type digital clock A first detecting means for detecting the phase of an hour time wheel and a second detecting means adapted to cooperate with a projection provided with each of some of a plurality of minute indication leaves, said some leaves occurring at a constant inter... | 11/03/1981 |
| 4293938 | Alarm signaling time detecting device for digital clock An alarm signaling time setting member is coupled to a minute indication drum having minute-scale alarm time graduations and an hour indication drum having hour-scale alarm signaling time graduations is intermittently advanced by the minute indication dru... | 10/06/1981 |
| 4242746 | Timing mechanism with two separate programs operating separate switch actuators and having an alarm system First and second movable spring contact blades are disposed in substantially parallel relation and have substantially equal lengths with electrical contacts disposed near their distal ends. A third spring contact blade having electrical contacts at its di... | 12/30/1980 |
| 4098069 | Digital clock with timer The digital clock includes a switch which undergoes a first operation at a first time and a second operation, representing a resetting operation, at a second time, the first and the second time being preset on a timer of the digital clock by utilizing a c... | 07/04/1978 |
| 4069658 | Alarm setting device for timepieces An alarm setting device for timepieces consisting of a primary alarm setting wheel which engages an alarm hand wheel, a primary time wheel which is provided on the same shaft as the primary alarm setting wheel and which is driven by a wheel train of the t... | 01/24/1978 |
| 3967078 | Time switch mechanism A time switch mechanism for automatically as well as manually operating a switch incorporated therein for the purpose of controlling the operation of a device such as a television or a radio, as well as a sleep timer. The time switch mechanism comprises a... | 06/29/1976 |
