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 |
| 7059467 | Conveyor belt assembly A conveyor belt assembly includes a conveyor belt to move an item, a drive pulley driven by a motor and a non-drive pulley. The conveyor belt includes a v-belt on the inner surface of the conveyor belt proximate to both of the edges. Each v-belt is received in a gro... | 06/13/2006 |
| 6971507 | Magnetic conveyor support Apparatuses designed to provide support to a conveyor belt in a new manner. In a first illustrative embodiment, a conveyor belt is supported by a number of magnets. A first set of magnets are disposed on the edges of the conveyor belt, and a second set of magnets ar... | 12/06/2005 |
| 5819140 | Roller for belt transporting apparatus and image forming apparatus A belt transporter roller for an image forming apparatus according to the present invention has a rotating shaft of an elastic roller; and an elastic fin wound around the rotating shaft and provided along an axial direction thereof, the fin including at l... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5593366 | Beaded guide roller To reduce the generation of noise in a belt drive for auxiliary units in an internal combustion engine, a guide roller for the belt has an approximately cylindrical surface formed with a bead which extends along the surface in a direction oblique to the s... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5441458 | Grooved roller chain idler An idler roller 40 replaces idler sprockets in roller chain 20 applications to reduce wear on the system components. The roller chain side bars 24, 26 rest in parallel alignment grooves 50, 52 in the non-resilient idler 40. In a second form, the outer cir... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5070365 | Low lateral force drive roller system A apparatus in which lateral movement of a moving belt is controlled so that the belt moves in a predetermined path. The apparatus includes dual oppositely wound, helical springs having a rectangular cross-section with a high friction material extruded th... | 12/03/1991 |
| 4995855 | Flat belt transmission A flat belt transmission has two spaced flat pulleys and a flat belt reeved around the flat pulleys. Each pulley can have a plurality of crowns arranged in the width direction of the outer periphery thereof. The flat belt can be a plurality of belts with ... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4810237 | V-belt pulley and drive The objects of the invention are a V-belt pulley and drive and it relates to V-belt transmissions, where the belt is a die-cut type without changes in the construction in the lateral direction. The aim is to improve efficiency and safety of function, in p... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4622748 | Guide roller for band saws In guide rollers (2) for band saws, especially for sawing meat and bones, the contact surface (4) is very quickly fouled or soiled by greasy fat, bone meal, etc., which has a disadvantageous effect on the power transmission and the guidance of the band sa... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4527470 | Pulley for band printers An improved pulley system for use with band printers or the like. A steel printing band is looped around a pair of capstans covered by sleeves made of elastomeric material. The sleeves include a plurality of downwardly angled flexible circumferential flan... | 07/09/1985 |
| 4180155 | Multiple pitch self-cleaning belt pulley The invention pertains to a pulley for belt conveyors, particularly belt conveyors used in the conveying of stones, gravel, and the like wherein the pulley structure is self-cleaning of foreign matter received within the confines of the pulley to prevent ... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4140216 | Track roller having V-shaped helical grooves Ribbing configuration for use on a tracking roller for positive belt traction in which the roller's cylindrical surface has shallow V-shaped grooves defining lands which spiral oppositely outward from the center of the roller.... | 02/20/1979 |
| 4027568 | Replaceable surface band wheel For band saw machines, a replaceable surface band wheel is disclosed wherein a helical groove is machined in the peripheral surface of a substantially conventional disk-shaped band wheel of the flanged type to extend from the rear face flange to the non-f... | 06/07/1977 |
| 3961736 | Rubber-covered self-centering rolls A self-centering roll includes a body, a first layer of rubber surrounding the body, and a second layer of rubber surrounding the first layer, the rubber on the first layer being softer and of lower density than the rubber in the second layer. Flexible pr... | 06/08/1976 |
