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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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| 20090179040 | Method and apparatus for an ice level determiner A product supply management system provides the capability to regulate the delivery of a product into a containment device. The containment device may be part of a product dispenser, such that the product dispenser regulates the delivery of product from a product genera... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20080203107 | Patient controlled timed medication dispenser A medication on demand dispenser. The dispenser provides patient access to medications prescribed to be available on an as-needed basis but with a prescribed minimum time interval between doses. The dispenser permits access to a single medication dose after each minimum... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080128446 | Automated Sheet Product Dispenser A sheet product dispenser includes a sheet product feed mechanism coupled to a DC stepper motor, the mechanism moving a sheet product out of the dispenser during a dispense cycle; and a control unit controlling the DC stepper motor to move the sheet product with a gradu... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20080099495 | AUTOMATED DISPENSER SENSOR ARRANGEMENT An automatic dispenser for dispensing a product stored therein includes an active IR sensor system for detecting a user. The IR system includes emitters and receivers which are mounted so that each IR emitter's active emitting portion protrudes outwardly from an outer s... | 05/01/2008 |
| 20080006647 | AUTOMATIC APPARATUS FOR STORING AND DISPENSING PACKAGED MEDICATION AND OTHER SMALL ELEMENTS The system includes a bin hopper which temporarily stores a plurality of small elements, such as medications. The elements are moved out of the bin and singulated into a one-by-one sequence by a series of singulating conveyors. The resulting sequence of elements is move... | 01/10/2008 |
| 20070164044 | APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SENSING TABLET IN TABLET PACKAGING MACHINE A tablet sensing apparatus of an automatic tablet packaging machine includes a tablet cassette accommodating tablets and having a rotor, a motor to drive the rotor, an optical sensor unit sensing discharge of the tablets by detecting a level of voltage by a light receiv... | 07/19/2007 |
