...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 |
| 4158269 | Nutrient dispersal device A nutrient dispersal device adapted for vertical insertion into the soil is comprised of a cap section, a hollow elongated cylindrical body section rotatably connected to the cap section at an upper end of the body section and a hollow tip section rotatab... | 06/19/1979 |
| 4156396 | Root irrigation dripilator device with spray head This device consists primarily of a main body with perforated sleeve means, for insertion into a ground surface, for the purpose of introducing a controlled amount of water and liquid fertilizer to plant roots underground. It includes a manually controlle... | 05/29/1979 |
| 4031833 | Injection irrigating process and apparatus A process and apparatus for injecting water, fertilizers and the like into cultivated ground, comprising a source of irrigating liquid leading through a flexible tube and a flow regulating device to an injecting hollow tubular member, having an enlarged p... | 06/28/1977 |
| 3968937 | Dropping disposing Droppings are disposed by placing a rotating sprinkler within a container over droppings and dissolving the droppings, lifting the open-bottom container from the droppings, and flowing the solution or dispersion outward. A valve actuates the sprinkler onc... | 07/13/1976 |