...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6761339 | Leg part for a barber or beauty chair According to a conventional hydraulic-pump-type barber or beauty chair having legs which spread out, radiately and in parallel to a floor surface, from the lower part of a pump, a seat part itself is large and heavy, which results in a high center of gravity. Thus, ... | 07/13/2004 |
| D488257 | Automatic hair washer | 04/06/2004 |
| 6609759 | Chair and stand for chair The present device provides a chair which has sufficient stability even when a person under hair washing rests her weight in a backward direction of the chair so as to have her hair washed or the like. The chair comprises plural legs, at least one of whic... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6604251 | Hair washing stand A movable hair washing stand, upon which hair washing materials are kept. The hair washing materials are placed on a movable arm part or a rotation shaft part of the stand. A tray, in which the hair washing agents and hair washing tools can be placed, is ... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6434763 | Seat supporting table for a barber or beauty chair and hair washer with the seat supporting table A seat supporting table for a barber of beauty chair which can slide a barber or beauty chair even when the barber or beauty chair is provided with no sliding function. A sliding plate, to which the barber or beauty chair is attached, is slid forward and ... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6430365 | Hair processing accelerator with rotatable adjustable semicircular heaters A hair processing accelerator having a first heater unit with a semicircular shape for irradiating hair upon the top of a person's head and second and third heater units each having a semicircular shape for irradiating a hairline on the person's head. The... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6155642 | Barber/beauty chair The present invention provides a barber/beauty chair which can freely set the lowest position and a movable area of an ascendable/descendable seat part as well as hoist and lower the seat part horizontally without displacement of the center position of th... | 12/05/2000 |