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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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6004627 | Method and apparatus for applying a coating to the head/shank junction of externally threaded articles An apparatus for applying a coating to the head-shank junction of externally threaded fasteners in an automated fashion. The fasteners are positioned, head down, on rotating part holders positioned about the periphery of a rotating disc. The part holders ... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5932012 | Paste applicator having positioning means A paste applicator for drawing a paste film in a desired pattern on a substrate, including a table for detachably supporting a substrate, a paste reservoir tube to be filled with a paste, and a nozzle communicating with the paste reservoir and having a pa... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5654031 | Web coating apparatus A web coating apparatus includes a supply roll of web and a wind-up spindle for receiving a discrete length of the web. Fluid is discharged from a coating die in a direction toward the wind-up spindle to coat the web as the web is wound about the wind-up ... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5334249 | Programmable electrically controlled photoeye linked applicator for glue guns An easy to use and inexpensive programmable electronic control system is provided for control of glue guns to spot glue on controllable positions on a carton blank, being conveyed past a glue station. The controls are synchronously related to the position... | 08/02/1994 |
| 4919074 | Apparatus for mounting parts onto a printed substrate The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for coating adhesive for mounting parts onto a printed substrate in which an adhesive coating nozzle is arranged in correspondence to the printed substrate placed on an X-Y table controlled to be move... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4354455 | Apparatus for oscillating a gas manifold in a rotary disc reactor A variable sweep means connects the rotating shaft of an electric motor to a rotatable gas manifold in a rotary disc reactor to convert rotation of the shaft into reciprocating oscillation of the gas manifold. A cycle timing control means for varying elec... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4254735 | Apparatus for supporting flexible sheet while applying graded shade band thereon This invention relates to a method of and apparatus for forming a colored shade band on an elongated area of a flexible sheet of interlayer material comprising applying a dye composition by electrostatic spraying against an elongated area of a surface of ... | 03/10/1981 |
| 4236810 | Means for inhibiting the separation of toner particles from dispersant in a copy machine This invention includes timer means in combination with switching means disposed in a copying machine for cyclically and automatically activating a pump which circulates liquid developer through the copying machine for a predetermined period of time there... | 12/02/1980 |
| 4212265 | Tinning apparatus for multiple solder surfaces Tinning of a plurality of solder bonding surfaces is accomplished by feeding a predetermined length of solder into each of the plurality of pre-heated surfaces. The apparatus provides for the measurement of the solder wire during a non-tinning portion of ... | 07/15/1980 |
| 4148274 | Processing apparatus An apparatus for liquid development of latent images on sheets or webs comprises a plurality of applicator stations which sequentially deliver processing liquid to the latent image bearing surface of the sheets or webs. The latter are transported above th... | 04/10/1979 |
| 4085238 | Process and apparatus for applying plastic filaments to sheets for multiple pane windows A face of a sheet, e.g. of glass, is moved past an extrusion nozzle to deposit a plastic filament adjacent a first edge thereof. The movement is interrupted when a corner is reached. The nozzle and sheet are moved away from each other to detach the filame... | 04/18/1978 |
| 4029470 | Automated single-slide staining device A simple apparatus and method is disclosed for making individual single Gram stains on bacteria inoculated slides to assist in classifying bacteria in the laboratory as Gram-positive or Gram-negative. The apparatus involves positioning a single inoculated... | 06/14/1977 |
