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 |
| 5259216 | Actuator device for transmitting horizontal oscillatory movements to tube bars in knitting machines In a knitting machine, a plurality of stepping motors (10) is controlled by an electronic control unit (35) and each motor transmits horizontal oscillations to a tube bar (5). Each oscillation is built up of a plurality of horizontal-movement steps, each ... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5165259 | Method and device for needle-by needle selection in a circular knitting machine by means of elastic selectors A circular knitting machine in which the inactivation or activation of a vertical jack below each needle is determined by a flexible fork located radially of the cylinder within a ring structure completely surrounding the machine cylinder and rigid therew... | 11/24/1992 |
| 4586353 | Triple needle height selection means for knitting machines A triple needle height selective means for knitting machines. For each needle, there is provided two columns of perforations in a pattern strip and two selector levers receiving the dictates from the columns of perforations. A racket is associated with an... | 05/06/1986 |
