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 |
| 7100348 | Continuous strip of detachably interconnected folded products The invention relates to a continuous strip of detachable consecutive interconnected products manufactured by folding, such as envelopes and the like, and to a process for manufacturing the said strip, two of those consecutive products being interconnected through a... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7096643 | Device for closing envelope flaps A mail-handling machine including a postage-metering or “franking” module including at least a print mechanism for printing a postage imprint on a mail item and a conveyor for conveying the mail item along a mail item conveyor path defined by top and bottom guid... | 08/29/2006 |
| 6716150 | Easy open envelope An envelope comprising a tear strip that functions as an efficient opening means for access to the envelope contents. ... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6635003 | Method for laying out envelope blank A method for laying out an envelope blank on a sheet of material using a template having a straightedge portion with layout edge and an alignment portion with alignment field. The user places an item to be enclosed in an envelope onto the sheet, places ma... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6530869 | Method and apparatus for the production of mailing bags including envelopes In a method for the production of mailing bags, including envelopes, from material in web form, the material is processed in numerous ways and at least two separately prepared parts are transported to a joining station and there joined to one another with... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6248049 | Envelope A printable sheet is disclosed including a first portion and a second portion foldable together about a fold line and adherable together by adhesive means. The printable sheet also includes frangible means for allowing the sheet to be unfolded. The adhesi... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6053855 | Direct mail article with cover and one or more interior sheets and integral business reply envelope A method is provided for manufacturing a personalized direct mail article requiring no envelope or other wrapper in the format of an oversized brochure having front and rear cover sheets, at least one interior sheet and a detachable preformed business rep... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5921065 | Two way mailed document with two sided variable color information A mailing envelope with a plurality of inserts is made by imaging variable color indicia on both faces of a paper substrate and imaging sense marks, and reply indicia, on at least one face of the substrate. The sense marks are used to properly align and s... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5697879 | Method for folding glueing of a sheet of paper containing information A method for folding and glueing a sheet of paper that contains informations and serves both as a letter and an envelope, wherein the sheet (40) is folded transverse to its parallel lateral edges (41). The lateral edges (41), the end edge (45) of the last... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5626551 | Greeting card kit and method The present invention is directed to a kit containing the required elements to enable one to manufacture his or her own greeting cards, note cards, and/or envelopes. The invention also relates to a method of manufacturing a greeting card, note card, or an... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5201982 | Method for producing self-sealing envelopes Self-sealing envelopes having an envelope front with two side flaps and a osure flap, and a bottom flap with an edge strip along the free edge of the bottom flap, are produced by cutting blanks to size, and producing precreases along lines where folds wil... | 04/13/1993 |
| 4726804 | Method and apparatus for fabricating continuous envelopes A method and apparatus for fabricating continuous envelopes for use in connection with electronic data processing printers or the like is disclosed. The method and apparatus includes the steps of severing an advancing web along longitudinally spaced-apart... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4504259 | Folding machine The linear conveying route of a first folding material conveying device (1), oriented toward the roll nip (6) of a pair of folding rolls (7, 8), and the conveying route of a second folding material conveying device (11), the conveying direction (16, 17) o... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4179111 | Folding mechanism A mechanism for folding a sheet, such as an envelope with an insert superimposed, means for moving said sheet and insert and means for folding the sheet around the insert. The folding means comprises a ramp having a stop at its forward end and having its ... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4134322 | Use of microencapsulated glue in the manufacture of envelopes Envelopes having moistenable gum on the seal flap and back gum adhering the sides and bottom are manufactured by a process comprising applying a back gum to either the bottom flap or the side flaps in the form of microcapsules. When the bottom and side fl... | 01/16/1979 |
