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...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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| 20070190969 | Communication module for facilitating monitoring an existing alarm system via a cellular telephone network A communication module for facilitating monitoring an existing alarm system via a cellular telephone network. A microphone receives a specific sound from the existing alarm system, and in response thereto, generates electrical signals. A programmable alarm sound recogni... | 08/16/2007 |
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| 20060112722 | ICE RETAINING SHOT GLASS SYSTEM A shot glass system has means for holding frozen water, i.e. ice against the alcohol-retaining walls comprising circumferential detents and lips placed within a chamber which is formed adjacent the walls. ... | 06/01/2006 |
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| 20060075671 | Firearm for extinguishing a fire from a position remote from the fire A firearm for extinguishing a fire from a position remote from the fire. A cartridge is disposed in, and is selectively discharged from, a pistol. The cartridge includes a head containing a pressurized fire extinguishant and a casing containing a propellent. The casing ... | 04/13/2006 |
| 20060075877 | ELECTRONIC TAMBOURINE An improved tambourine of the type having a frame being arcuate-shaped and including a center of gravity, a pair of rims, and a grasping portion disposed at or near the center of gravity of the frame so as to allow comfortable holding for long periods of time, and a plu... | 04/13/2006 |
| 20050279878 | Amphibian delta wing jet aircraft An amphibian delta wing jet aircraft, which has a plurality of triangular folding wing panels, two of which are hingedly attached to a lifting shape body, which incorporates a W-shaped hull in it's cross section of a fuselage so that the craft operates efficiently as an... | 12/22/2005 |
| 20050225970 | Compartment for incorporation within a flashlight handle A compartment for threadably replacing a flashlight battery holding handle end cap of a flashlight. A housing holds tools and has a collar on a proximal end thereof that screws the housing into the flashlight where the flashlight battery holding handle end cap was remov... | 10/13/2005 |
