...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 |
| 8104629 | Device for dropping a first drinking vessel into a second drinking vessel and method of use A device and method for dropping a first drinking vessel into a second drinking vessel includes a holder which outwardly projects from a support member. The holder releaseably suspends the first drinking vessel over the second drinking vessel, so that when the secon... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8100273 | Rack for containers A rack for securing containers includes a plurality of bays into which one or more containers are received. An expandable, inflatable chamber is disposed adjacent each bay and selectively expands into the chamber to secure the containers within the bay. When install... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8061538 | Wine rack Wine storage system including a front panel, a back panel, and two side panels. The wine storage system can be in an assembled or disassembled state and can be assembled or disassembled by a user. When assembled, the wine storage system takes the form of a wine rack... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8033402 | Bottle holder A bottle holder is provided for holding wine bottles or other types of bottles in a vertical or horizontal position. The bottle holder can be mounted to a wall or underneath a cabinet in a kitchen. The bottle holder has a rectangular base with circular openings for ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7984813 | Wine glass and bottle holder system A wine bottle holder which includes an upper support structure including an upper opening, a lower support structure including a lower opening, wherein the lower opening and the upper opening are substantially concentric and including at least one support member con... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7922015 | Wine-barrel wine rack system A storage system for wine bottles is provided that includes at least a portion of a wine barrel. A front head plate of the barrel is provided with multiple openings that are sized to receive the wine bottles to be stored. Support members of various designs are assoc... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7878340 | Custom-fitted wine rack system A wine rack system for the easy assembly of a custom-fitted wine rack apparatus is described. The system comprises parts that enable the construction of the wine rack apparatus that is able to be easily assembled and custom-fitted into a variety of differently-sized... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7850017 | Wine rack A wine rack for mounting on a wall or other surface, the wine rack including at least a first and second pair of support members. In one embodiment, the first pair of support members may support at least a first and a second wine bottle in a substantially parallel r... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7806278 | Bottle storage device A bottle storage device, particularly a bottle rack, is provided for at least one double row (7) including a first row (2) and a second row (3) of bottles (1) and resting on a support assembly (11), with each support assembly (1... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7568582 | Medicine caddy Medicine caddies store and organize medicines. A bottom tier with a first shelf, a first wall, and a first divider is slidably and rotatably mounted on a base. A second tier with a second shelf, a second wall, and a second divider is attached to the first wall. Barr... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7469792 | Container and rack system A rack and container assembly and the associated method of holding the containers in the rack. The rack has frame elements that define at least one slot of a first width. The frame elements are rounded in cross-section having a first radius of curvature. Each of the... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7441668 | Balancing bottle holder A bottle holder that is unbalanced when its base surface is placed on a horizontal surface but is balanced on the base surface when a neck of a bottle is received and position in an opening provided in the holder. The opening which extends from a front side to a rea... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7398889 | Rotating barrel storage system Storage units of standard, new or used wood stave barrels, mounted on end on a rotating platform and having a side opening cut-out to the interior for access to shelving, drawers, wine racks or other storage devices fitted in the interior. The barrel is mounted on a... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7377397 | Wine refrigerator white shelf having elastic support members The present invention discloses a shelf of a wine refrigerator including a frame disposed inside a chill room in the horizontal direction, a plurality of support wires formed long inside the frame in the forward and backward directions of the frame at predetermined ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7360647 | Packaging system and method The present invention is directed to a system for packaging bottles having a neck portion. The system includes a tray unit and a bridge. The tray unit has a planar base, first and second opposite sidewalls, and first and second opposite end walls. The sidewalls and ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360661 | Organizer and storage rack A plurality of containers (32) are pitiable into tubular shelves (22). The containers (32) are cylindrical in shape and are sized so that they can be pushed sideways into a slot-like opening (26) in the tubular shelf (22). The cont... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7357270 | Container holder and a system for supporting containers and a method for holding containers A container holder, a system for supporting containers and a method for holding containers which allow the containers to be stored and/or displayed are provided. Additionally, the container holder may have a base or arm connected to a first stopper and/or a second s... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354024 | Pegboard wall-plug storage system A system and apparatus for storing an item is provided that includes a pegboard wall-plug having a plate including a central opening. A tube projects outwardly from a rear surface of the plate in surrounding relation to the central opening. A plurality of circumfere... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353957 | Pegboard with through peg-hole mounting A pegboard panel includes a plurality of perforations and a plurality of box-anchor receptacles that project outwardly from a rear surface. Each box-anchor receptacle communicates with one of the plurality of perforations and includes a back wall that is spaced from... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7350647 | Bottle rack and a bottle storage device A bottle rack is provided with a plurality of receivers for storage of bottles in prone position. A certain number of the receivers are foldable to be angularly tilted with respect to the non-foldable receivers and to receive respective bottles in sloping position. | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352657 | Maze lock hanger A hanger for mounting an object on a surface such as a wall. The hanger includes a slot that receives a projection such as a nail extending from the wall. The slot is nonlinear and provides an entry path through which the projection travels to reach its mounting pos... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7341377 | Cylindrical container bags Tank tote bags for storing cylinders such as diving tanks, welding tanks, and medical tanks such as oxygen tanks, in separate compartments that can be arranged in either vertical upright positions or horizontal laid down positions. One bag version has two tanks that... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337746 | Small animal feeding station A feeding station for dispensing food or water to small animals. The feeding station having two support members at an angle to one another, and a plurality of apertures in said support members in sets of upper and lower cooperating apertures. A bottle having an angu... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7335188 | Lumbar puncture fluid collection device A device for collecting spinal fluid during a lumbar puncture or other medical procedure includes: a) an upper, generally cup-shaped portion including an open top, an upper cup side wall, an upper cup base plate at a lower end of the upper cup side wall, and a drain... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334853 | Refrigerator door beverage storage module A storage module for a refrigeration appliance that includes a base including opposing side supports and a rack coupled to the side supports by a plurality of hooks, wherein the rack includes at least two opposing cross members. ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7331474 | Specimen-container rack for automated clinical instrument A magnetically-attractive specimen-container rack for use with a magnetic transport system for transporting racks of specimen-containers to or within an automated clinical instrument for analysis and/or processing. The specimen-container rack comprises a pair of U-s... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7325343 | Display board system An apparatus configured to allow the retention of at least one display board with a mounting structure is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a retaining system. A portion of the retaining system is deformable to retain at least one display board in a press-in, inter... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7322482 | Clip for supporting wine bottles or the like A clip adapted to be mounted on a support such as a conventional pot rack holds a long-necked bottle, such as a wine bottle, in display position with the tip of the bottle neck engaging the lower edge of the support and with the clip engaging a portion of the bottle... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7305894 | Nip press sensing system including a sensor strip having sensor interface electronics associated therewith and methods of operating the same According to some embodiments of the present invention, a system for determining characteristics of two rolls configured in a nip press includes a strip configured to be placed in the nip press. A plurality of sensors embedded in the strip is configured to generate ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305793 | Lure organizing device A lure organizing device for permitting storage of lures to inhibit tangling of the lures during transport includes a base plate being insertable into a bucket. Each of a plurality of tubes is coupled to a top surface of the base plate. Each of the tubes extends upw... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7303172 | Secure dish holder A secure dish holder that easily and firmly attaches to tables and various other structures without relying on suction or adhesive. The secure dish holder is easily released by an adult, but securely holds a dish or another article so that it is not easily spilled o... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7300121 | Shelf for a refrigerating appliance, in particular a bottle shelf for a bottle-storing cooler cabinet A shelf for refrigerating appliances, in particular a bottle shelf for a bottle-storage cabinet, has a frame, formed by transverse and longitudinal struts, and a plurality of trays which are retained one beside the other between two transverse struts of the frame an... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7293665 | Oven-supportable canning implement sterilization rack A canning implement sterilization rack includes a canning jar receiving grid, a ring or band receiving receptacle and a water bath which is supported in a cradle. The rack is adapted to be supported in an oven and is adjustable in width so that it can be used with a... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7290746 | Beverage container holder supported tray assembly The multi-purpose beverage container holder supported tray assembly: includes a beverage container holder component and a tray component hingedly coupled to the beverage container holder component and provides one or more utilitarian support surfaces that may be use... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7287474 | Consumer pyrotechnics support apparatus A reusable pyrotechnics support device for securely holding consumer ground-based fireworks (for example, fountains, mortars, multiple aerials, and the like) in a vertical and upright position, using a sufficiently wide base that is resistant to tipping over. In cer... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7287653 | Apparatus for storing bottles A module for a structure for storing bottles includes an elongate member having opposite end portions which each have either a channel or ridge configured for connection with a respective ridge or channel of like modules and a body portion extending in a general axi... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7284734 | Hanger A hanger comprising a base having a supported surface adapted to be positioned along a generally vertical surface, and an elongate peg having one end mounted on the base with a portion of the peg projecting from an outer surface of the base opposite its supported su... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284737 | Drink holder A drink holder system is described, wherein the drink holder system includes a base assembly operable to receive a drink container and a clamp assembly operably associated with the base assembly. The base assembly includes a C-shaped base member having an open end, ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7275647 | Spice rack The spice rack of the present invention comprises a rotatable carriage having elongated tracks with opposite ends for frictionally engaging the sidewalls of spice containers so as to grip and hold the containers in the tracks. A plurality of containers can be receiv... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7276208 | Sample carrier having sample tube blocking member A sample carrier comprising a lower support wall, a base joined to or in fixed proximity to a bottom end of the lower support wall, and sample tube receiving areas in fixed proximity to the lower support wall for receiving and holding a plurality of sample tubes in ... | 10/02/2007 |