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 |
| 6748817 | Transmission with minimal orbiter A transmission has only a single, minimal orbiter in which an input gear and an output gear, each being connected to separate input and output shafts, are interconnected through an orbiting cluster gear that meshes with only the input and output gears. The cluster g... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6295565 | RAID controller card coupled via first and second edge connectors to the system bus and on-board SCSI controller respectfully A computer system having a hard disk drive and a video display device, includes a RAID card having an interface controller and a RAID controller. A motherboard is constructed with a central processing unit, a system bus, a SCSI controller and edge connect... | 09/25/2001 |
| 5302156 | Chain drive The chain drive described in the present disclosure, instead of using a single sprocket wheel, saves space by making use of two or more sprocket wheels coupled together by slip-free means, each sprocket wheel having only a small number of low sprockets. T... | 04/12/1994 |
| 4590813 | Inertia transmission A power transmission that uses inertia forces. The drive member carries a urality of high density rollers that are acted on by centrifugal force. The driven member includes reaction surfaces that periodically move the high density rollers inwardly in oppo... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4430903 | Gaming apparatus having manually controllable operating speed An improved amusement or game device of the type which has one or more indicia-bearing rotatable reels which are rotated upon initiation of play by a player is disclosed. The game device has an improved main drive mechanism which permits the player to var... | 02/14/1984 |
