...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 |
| 4443903 | Composite upholstered furniture or mattress assembly with flame retardant-smolder resistant textile backcoated fabric layer The invention provides a process for rendering textiles or barrier fabric material flame retardant and smolder resistant with a flame retardant and smolder resistant composition comprised of an aminophosponate ester in combination with a thermosetting, ni... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4390997 | Heat protection garment A heat protection garment comprises one or more manifolds connected to one or more headers by a plurality of parallel extending coolant tubes. The manifolds and headers are similar and both include mixing chambers to which the coolant tubes are connected.... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4384369 | Exercise suit An exercise suit includes a jacket and pants having numerous pockets. The pockets carry bags containing liquid to provide a weight load and massaging muscle stimulation during body movement. The pockets are so distributed about the user's body as to provi... | 05/24/1983 |
| 4310926 | Fireproof suit The invention relates to a suit enabling a person while wearing it to walk through high temperature flames and fire. The suit according to the invention comprises an inner impermeable flexible sheet material shaped to cover the entire body of a person, an... | 01/19/1982 |
| 4223064 | Alkali metal protective garment and composite material A protective garment and composite material providing satisfactory heat resistance and physical protection for articles and personnel exposed to hot molten alkali metals, such as sodium. Physical protection is provided by a continuous layer of nickel foil... | 09/16/1980 |
| 4211261 | Fabrics for protective garments having strands of reflective materials Protective fabrics having a reflective surface are made of textile yarns, for example of wool, intermeshed with strands of reflective material, for example a metallized plastics film, a major proportion of the textile yarns being present in one face of th... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4195364 | Garment for use in vigorous physical activities A garment intended to be worn closest to the skin during vigorous physical activities in warm environments. The garment comprises a comparatively open warp knit fabric into the base of which are bound vertically extending cords. The warp knit fabric base ... | 04/01/1980 |
| 4185327 | Ventilating and insulating garment An insulating material consists of moldable material and a plurality of spherical air pockets formed in the material.... | 01/29/1980 |
| 4147829 | Laminated material Clothing material made from a layer of polyurethane foam having heat reflective material flame bonded to one face and weatherproof fabric flame bonded to the other face. The invention also includes clothing made from the material.... | 04/03/1979 |
| 4129675 | Product comprising blend of hollow polyester fiber and crimped polyester binder fiber Blends of 55 to 97% by weight crimped hollow polyester fiber having a void content of from 8 to 30% by volume and 3 to 45% by weight of crimped lower-melting polyester binder fiber impart advantageous properties to bonded low density batts made therefrom,... | 12/12/1978 |
| 4034417 | Protective garments A protective garment, jacket and/or pants, made of a fabric unit which includes an outer shell and an inner shell with a liner therebetween, these being secured together at edges thereof. The outer and inner shells are formed of light, non-moisture-absorb... | 07/12/1977 |
| 4032681 | Porous reflective fabric A new reflective fabric comprising a base fabric covered with a thin originally continuous reflective layer that has been extensively fractured. The fractures provide porosity but leave the fabric with a high reflectivity.... | 06/28/1977 |
| 3950789 | Dry ice cooling jacket A cooling jacket provides personal cooling for the wearer by convection as cold carbon dioxide gas circulates within the space between the inside surface of the jacket and the wearer's body. Dry ice is held in pockets inside the jacket, aand each pocket i... | 04/20/1976 |