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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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D635452 | Bungee cord keeper | 04/05/2011 |
| D613917 | Handheld canister vacuum cleaner motor assembly | 04/13/2010 |
| 7625034 | Cargo vehicle with drag reduction A semi-trailer or other cargo vehicle enclosure includes a rearward end portion extending between opposite left and right sidewalls. The sidewalls include vertically extending rearward corner portions that define air passageways for directing rearwardly flowing air ... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7456642 | Handheld electronic test probe assembly A test probe assembly includes a probe-supporting component and a test probe on it. According to one aspect of the invention, the probe-supporting component takes the form of a probe-supporting housing in which the test probe is partially disposed so that two test p... | 11/25/2008 |
| D577553 | Extension pole male repair tool | 09/30/2008 |
| 7395918 | Extendible conveyor An extendible conveyor apparatus includes a first end, a second end, and an adjustable-length bed of rollers extending in between them. A sliding frame (or extension) mounted moveably on a support structure supports a fixed number of the rollers, while a moveable st... | 07/08/2008 |
| D559474 | Pet leg bracelet | 01/08/2008 |
| D559473 | Pet leg bracelet | 01/08/2008 |
| D557296 | Crown molding miter saw guide | 12/11/2007 |
| D555755 | Decorative water fountain apparatus | 11/20/2007 |
| D545246 | Vehicle suspension control arm | 06/26/2007 |
| D536440 | Model-motorcycle-outfitted ceiling fan blade | 02/06/2007 |
| D534558 | Tool-holding adapter | 01/02/2007 |
| 7128010 | CBTF sailing yacht appendage retraction system A canting ballast twin foil (CBTF) sailing yacht constructed according to the invention includes a sailing hull, a laterally moveable ballast suspended beneath the hull that provides a counter heeling force when the yacht is underway, and fore and aft foils that pro... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7000872 | Circular parachute A circular parachute includes a circularly shaped canopy having a skirt band and a plurality of cascaded, Y-shaped main suspension lines connected to the skirt band that converge downwardly to a suspension line junction. Each main suspension line includes a lower se... | 02/21/2006 |
| D514030 | Bicycle frame | 01/31/2006 |
| 6983759 | Valve and method for repairing a valve under pressure A valve includes a valve body with a hollow valve body interior and an opening-defining portion that defines an access opening. The opening-defining portion is arranged as a connection-facilitating structure for facilitating the fluid-tight connection of a separate ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6983713 | Powered watercraft A watercraft with a propulsion engine includes at least one hull having an underside. A dual exhaust system includes a first exhaust conduit defining a first exhaust flow path leading to the underside (e.g., a step in a planing surface on the underside) and a second... | 01/10/2006 |
| D512665 | Bicycle | 12/13/2005 |
| 6951180 | CBTF sailing yacht main engine drive system A canting ballast twin foil (CBTF) sailing yacht constructed according to the invention includes a sailing hull, a ballast, a ballast-supporting structure, and an onboard ballast drive system. The ballast drive system moves the ballast in order to vary the counter-h... | 10/04/2005 |
| D503875 | Handheld kitchen cutting appliance | 04/12/2005 |
| 6868798 | Powered watercraft A watercraft includes at least one hull having at least one planing surface, at least one vertical step in the planing surface, and an onboard propulsion engine. An exhaust-venting system is provided for venting exhaust from the onboard propulsion engine at the vert... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6833502 | Wind chime apparatus A wind chime constructed according to the invention includes a rotating wind bell apparatus having a downwardly opening bell that is adapted to be suspended from a separate support structure. A bell-striking mechanism in the form of a striker is suspended movably fr... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6756798 | Contactor assembly for testing ceramic surface mount devices and other electronic components A contactor assembly useable on a component testing system for electrically contacting a terminal on a device under test (DUT) for parametric testing and eventual sorting as part of component batch processing. At least three contacts are provided to help insure at l... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6749394 | Rotating display apparatus A rotating display apparatus includes a support structure, a rotor mounted rotatably on the support structure for rotation about a vertically disposed rotational axis, and at least two (preferably more) wind-reactive elements on the rotor on which a user may display... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6710611 | Test plate for ceramic surface mount devices and other electronic components A test plate for holding miniature electronic circuit components as a part of batch processing for parametric testing purposes, including passive, two-terminal, ceramic capacitors, resistors, multilayer inductors, inductor beads, varistors, thermistors, fuses, senso... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6698099 | Convertible knife A convertible knife assembly includes a knife and a conversion piece. The knife includes a blade with a handle end portion, a tip, a cutting edge intermediate the handle end an the tip, and a spine opposite the cutting edge. The conversion piece has a spi... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6688842 | Vertical axis wind engine A vertical axis wind engine, also referred to as a vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) includes a support structure, a rotor mounted rotatably on the support structure for rotation about a vertical axis, and at least one airfoil for causing the rotor to rot... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6647628 | Tuft-parting carpet cutters A carpet cutters includes a blade-supporting structure and a tuft-parting structure. The blade-supporting structure includes a longitudinally extending guide with a forward portion and a carpet-contacting edge that extends along a first axis toward the fo... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6598769 | Sock holding dressing aid A sock-holding dressing aid for a person to use in donning a sock having a cuff onto a foot of the person includes a U-shaped member for holding the cuff of the sock in an expanded position ahead of the foot of the user in order to facilitate insertion of... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6578774 | Water sheeting manifold A water sheeting manifold includes an enclosure having a hollow interior with a plurality of water-spreading chambers and a plurality of chamber-connecting passageways. The enclosure includes a water inlet that conveys a flow of water into the hollow inte... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6554288 | Collet adapter An adapter for facilitating use of a bullnose mounting fixture on the spindle of a unit of machining equipment with a collet having a collet head larger than the bullnose bore includes a collet-receiving component disposed symmetrically about an adapter r... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6536497 | Laminating system A laminating system includes a feeder apparatus, a laminating apparatus, and a trimmer apparatus mounted on a movable support structure that is adapted to maintain alignment in order to enable a user to move the system without upsetting the alignment. Sim... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6398543 | Method and flow control device for delivering fuel oil to a low firing rate fuel oil burner A method for delivering fuel oil from a pressurized fuel oil source to an airblast atomizer subassembly on a low firing rate fuel oil burner includes providing a flow control device having a body defining a bore extending between and inlet end of the bore... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6289793 | Cooking appliance A cooking appliance that facilitates preparation of dry packaged foods includes a base and a removable pot on the base. The base is adapted to rest upon a horizontal countertop surface as a support for other components of the cooking appliance. The base i... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6273310 | Portable laptop computer workstation A laptop computer workstation accessory for an automobile includes a portable case adapted to be transported manually by the driver and placed in an automobile intermediate the driver seat and the passenger seat. The case includes a lower portion with a p... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6250245 | M-shaped boat hull The present invention relate to a watercraft having a wave suppressing "M-shaped" hull design. The hull comprises a central displacement body flanked by two downwardly extending outer skirts. The outer skirts are attached to the displacement body by plani... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6234368 | Protective bra cage device for laundering delicate undergarments A device for protecting a brassiere and other delicate undergarments during laundering includes a pair of domed or hemispherically shaped shells adapted to assemble together over a cup of the brassiere as a protective covering for the cup. The outer shell... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6227342 | Motorcycle clutch system A hydraulic clutch assembly for a motorcycle having a handlebar, an engine, and a clutch, includes a master hydraulic cylinder assembly, a slave hydraulic cylinder assembly, and a hydraulic line adapted to communicate hydraulic fluid pressure between the ... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6212216 | External cavity micro laser apparatus External cavity micro laser apparatus comprises at least one multimode micro laser having an emission aperture with a relatively long dimension lying in a slow axis plane and a relatively short dimension lying in a fast axis plane. The laser produces mult... | 04/03/2001 |
