...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 |
| 7460980 | Method for the control of a pipe inspection system and for the evaluation of the inspection data A method for operating a mobile pipe inspection device includes a camera head that can be pivoted about two axes that lie at right angles to one another. The pivoting movements of the camera head are remotely controlled by motors and at least one pivoting movement i... | 12/02/2008 |
| D570036 | Lamp head | 05/27/2008 |
| 7238631 | Composite material comprising titanium dioxide layer on titanium suboxide layer on substrate Composite material (10) comprises a substrate (1) and a chemically, mechanically, physically, catalytically and/or optically functional titanium oxide layer (2), applied on at least one side thereof. A titanium oxide layer (2) is deposite... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7213418 | Method of producing hose-like knitwear One-cylinder circular knitting machine for production of hose-like knitwear, such as socks, etc., that are closed at one of their ends, is provided with an dial plate (3) situated above the needle cylinder of the machine and equipped with dial sinkers (4, ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 6802715 | Paint tray activity desk A paint activity tray has a first section with a workspace at least partly surrounded by a channel for holding excess water and a second section with recesses holding containers for water and watercolor paint blocks. A container with a handle holding paint brushes t... | 10/12/2004 |
| 5810293 | Emergency landing auxiliary apparatus for an aircraft using a parachute The present invention relates to an emergency landing auxiliary apparatus of an aircraft using a parachute, whereby a rapid accident crash of an aircraft can be avoided through releasing the chute set inside an apparatus accepting room 11 and the landing ... | 09/22/1998 |