...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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| 20050161996 | Wheel gliding control structure The invention herein relates to a kind of structure improving the control of gliding of a wheel which mainly consists in two left-right symmetrical shells and a fixed axle, of which, an internal side of both parts of the shell is a U-shaped hollow, with a groove running... | 07/28/2005 |
| 20050082900 | Skate wheel having skew-mounted and self-powered illuminating devices An in-line skate wheel having skew-mounted and self-powered illuminating devices is disclosed. The wheel includes a first and a second anchor joined together creating a chamber in the middle, a rotor held in the chamber, multiple illuminating devices inserted with a ske... | 04/21/2005 |
| 20050062333 | Skate wheel A skate wheel for skates or skateboards is provided which includes decorative spacers therein. The skate wheel includes a cylindrical outer hub bonded to an outer layer, a cylindrical inner hub, and first and second decorative spacers positioned between the inner surfac... | 03/24/2005 |