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 |
| 6561797 | Heating apparatus A heating apparatus for heating rigid plastic pipe for the purpose of bending and forming the pipe. The heating apparatus includes an elongate housing that has a bottom wall, a pair of side walls, a first end wall, and a second end wall to define an inter... | 05/13/2003 |
| 5853289 | Gas-supplied pipe heater The present invention is a pipe heater that uses a combustible gas burner to provide heat to the pipe. The gas burner permits the heater to be portable and to be used in remote locations where a source of electricity is not readily available. The heater c... | 12/29/1998 |
| 4588379 | Configuration for temperature treatment of substrates, in particular semi-conductor crystal wafers Configuration for temperature treatment of substrates, in particular semiconductor crystal wafers, comprised of a carrier for receiving the substrates to be treated, a frame-like support for receiving the carrier, whereby the frame-like support is connect... | 05/13/1986 |
| 4305559 | Support for curved surfaces The present invention is a round-bottom flask support which comprises a base of honeycomb or honeycomb-like material flat on its lower surface and having a concave upper surface substantially complementary to the flask it is designed to support. The cross... | 12/15/1981 |
| 3963417 | Method and apparatus for removing solid tires from rims A method and apparatus for removing solid tires from tubular rim bands is disclosed. A transverse cut is first made through the annular rubber tire, then the tubular rim band is heated at its inside surface to a temperature high enough to break the bond b... | 06/15/1976 |
