...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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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
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| 20090134111 | PACKAGE SYSTEM A package system is provided for combining an article and a container in an integrated package with the article in nested relationship within an elongated, vertically oriented recess formed in the wall of the container. The container includes one or more reliefs in comm... | 05/28/2009 |
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| 20090050595 | TETHERED TWO PIECE NESTABLE BOTTLE A plastic bottle formed of two tethered parts having relatively large threaded open ends facilitating hand or machine washing of the unthreaded bottle parts thereby facilitating repeated reuse of the bottle. This two part plastic bottle reduces use of materials, such as... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090045157 | INTERLOCKING CONTAINER FOR CONDUCTION OF FLOWABLE MATERIALS An apparatus for containing and conducting flowable materials, including liquids, pourable solids, or gases, the apparatus having mateable dovetails on four sides, and mateable screw engagements at the top and bottom. The screw engagements are operative to maintain a se... | 02/19/2009 |
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| 20080190878 | Set of containers In a set of containers consisting of a first container with a container neck comprising an external thread and an opening and a second container comprising an opening, whereby the container neck of the first container can be brought into a positive locking connection wi... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080047921 | Bottle A bottle made of at least a first chamber and a second chamber which are produced separately and secured to each other, characterized in that at least the second chamber is nestable such that the height of two chambers when nested is from 51% to 99% of twice the height ... | 02/28/2008 |
| 20080000867 | Interlocking rectangular container A plastic container includes an upper portion having a mouth defining an opening into the container. A shoulder region extends from the upper portion. A sidewall portion extends from the shoulder region to a base portion. The base portion closes off an end of the contai... | 01/03/2008 |
| 20070193913 | Package System A package system which combines an article and a container in an integrated package with the article secured in nested relationship within a recess of the container. The recess has sufficient depth such that portions of the side walls of the container extend outwardly e... | 08/23/2007 |
| 20070125740 | Detachable containers It is a typical container enclosed with a plastic body. But instead of it having one opening, it haves two. Both openings are parallel to the walls of the body of the container. One is the opening at the uttermost top of the container; the second is located at the utter... | 06/07/2007 |
| 20070114200 | STACKABLE BOTTLE SYSTEM A bottle having a storage chamber defined by spaced upper and lower surfaces and planar sidewalls; a conical ceiling in said upper surface having an opening at the top thereof; a conical convex recess in said lower surface for receiving the conical ceiling of the next a... | 05/24/2007 |
| 20070090076 | Easy-operated bottles A bottle which bottom has a female pattern which is a recessed space which can engage with an inserted male pattern which protrudes from the top of a cap; a bottle which bottom has a recessed space which cross-section resembles this of a cap and which can engage with an... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070090077 | Container arrangement A container arrangement for providing a heating or cooling effect to a fluid. The arrangement may include two containers, in which a fluid within one of the containers has a temperature selected to provide a thermal effect to the fluid in the other container. ... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070045213 | Stackable plastic container A blow molded plastic container including a top and bottom portion and side portions which interconnect the top and bottom portions. A pouring spout on one side of the top portion in the form of a first upward projection, and a second upward projection on the opposed si... | 03/01/2007 |
| 20060255000 | Vertically stackable water bottle A water bottle includes an intruding bottom portion allowing entry of a spout portion of another water bottle, and stacking surfaces for stably supporting vertically stacked water bottles. The water bottle neck is shaped for inverted cooperation with a water dispenser t... | 11/16/2006 |
| 20060096942 | Stackable bottle system A stackable bottle for use with liquids or other consumable materials and a system of such stackable bottles features nesting bottles having interlocking upper and lower surfaces, interlocking side walls and integral handles. Each bottle has generally planar side walls ... | 05/11/2006 |
| 20060054583 | Container to be coupled with a bottle The present invention relates to a container to be coupled either with a bottle or another container, for the sale of multicomponent articles. Particularly, the container being the object of the present application is provided with a hole, either a through or blind hole... | 03/16/2006 |
| 20060049127 | Container A first container for flowable substances having a first opening provided with a plug. The plug configured to be brought from its closed state to its open state after a fluid tight seal has been formed between the first opening and a second opening of a second container... | 03/09/2006 |
| 20050258126 | Double bottomed jar A double walled jar may include a first revolving external body inside of which a second revolving body is fitted which is greater in height than the first body. The bodies may be arranged so that there is an airtight chamber between them and may include an upper double... | 11/24/2005 |
| 20050161424 | Sunflower seed dispenser and shell diposal container A dual-compartment container designed specifically to dispense unshelled sunflower seeds and to hold sunflower seed refuse. The container comprises a dispenser compartment, a disposal compartment, and a dividing wall. The two compartments are separately blow molded, and... | 07/28/2005 |
| 20050011853 | Dosing dispenser and reservoir A dosing dispenser for dosing at least two components, wherein the dosing dispenser has a reservoir with at least two containers, which can be combined to form the reservoir and each of which can receive one component wherein each container has at least one engagement e... | 01/20/2005 |