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 |
| 7182427 | Cut-processing apparatus, cut-processing method in cut-processing apparatus, and program A cut-processing apparatus generates tool move control data to reciprocate the tool, and sheet feed control data to feed the sheet; stores an amount of tool move loss due to backlash in the carriage gear train occurring at tool move direction shift, and an amount of... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7163348 | Postage meter for printing near the top edge of an envelope A mailing machine including a postage meter for printing evidence of postage payment on a media includes a registration surface, a print head, an envelope transport having at least two nips for keeping the media from skewing and contacting the print head, a media sk... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7066670 | Printing method and apparatus A printer (24) for printing upon a continuous web of print receivable media (18) is provided. The printer includes a print head (28) having a media drive assembly side and a media drive assembly for moving the media across the print head. The me... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6978421 | Handwriting text input system A data is input, character by character or stroke by stroke, to form a line of text. The system looks up in a dictionary and determines a unique one in the dictionary including entered line of text data and being with (1) leading part be unique, or (2) first part an... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6628423 | Dummy sheet placed on rotary drum of image recording apparatus An image recording apparatus comprises a rotary drum for attracting a recording medium to the surface thereof on which a plurality of through holes are formed, the rotary drum for attracting the recording medium via the plural holes by reducing pressure t... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6471351 | Ink jet recording apparatus and recording method therefor An ink jet recording apparatus, which records a image on a recording medium using a recording head provided with a plurality of ink discharge ports, includes a rotative platen having a plurality of supporting pieces arranged at predetermined intervals; a ... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6155728 | Printer A type printer in which deterioration of a platen is prevented by distributing positions of impacts on the platen by a printing head over the whole region of peripheral surface of a cylindrical platen. The drive shafts of a paper feed roller, platen, and ... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6152628 | Sheet supply apparatus with feed protrusions for skew correction A sheet supply apparatus adapted for use with a recording apparatus such as a printer. The sheet supply apparatus comprises a frame having a sheet conveying surface, a shaft rotatably arranged above the sheet conveying surface, and a plurality of protrusi... | 11/28/2000 |
| 5267799 | Apparatus and method of printing data in a book, a notebook, or the like An apparatus for printing data on any specified page of a book includes a book-transporting mechanism for transporting the book to a predetermined position, while keeping a selected page of the book opened and located substantially parallel to the other p... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5224207 | Improved remote programming using display screen A technique for pre-programming a reproduction machine for a plurality of complex jobs involving a variety of machine features and requirements at a computer console remote from the reproduction machine operator console and touch sensitive screen display.... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5192140 | Apparatus and method of printing data in a book, a notebook, or the like An apparatus for printing data on any specified page of a book includes a book-transporting mechanism for transporting the book to a predetermined position, while keeping a selected page of the book opened and located substantially parallel to the other p... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5183347 | Apparatus for printing images on booklets An apparatus for printing images on a booklet comprises, first and second paired pinch rollers for conveying pages of the opened booklet to a printing head, located between these paired pinch rollers, a rotatable platen opposed to the printing head and lo... | 02/02/1993 |
| 4776711 | Booklet printer Two print heads each having a plurality of print elements arranged over a print width to allow printing of a predetermined area by a print scan operation are arranged one for each one of adjacent pages bordered by a seam line of a booklet along which a pl... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4772896 | Booklet printing apparatus A printing apparatus has a thermal head which is adapted to be pressed against a platen through a thermal ink film and a printing medium, thereby performing print on the printing medium. After the printing medium has been transported between the thermal h... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4265550 | Ink ribbon cartridge including a movable ribbon tensioning guide for a printing machine An ink ribbon cartridge for a printing machine of the type which includes a carriage moving in a direction parallel to the line of typing and a needle printing head, which can move on the carriage perpendicular to its direction of movement to advance and ... | 05/05/1981 |
| 3999749 | Automatic document feed device An automatic passbook feeding device, suitable for an accounting machine, having a pair of parallel driving rollers rotating in synchronism a corresponding pair of pressure counter-rollers, for pressing the passbook against the driving rollers, and a mova... | 12/28/1976 |
