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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 |
| 7349858 | Method of dispensing and tracking the giving of medical items to patients A method of tracking and dispensing the dispense of medical items for use by patients associated with a health care institution, includes storing in a data store in connection with a computer, data representative of patients and medical items prescribed for the pati... | 03/25/2008 |
| 6065636 | Convective warmer for foam packaging bags A convective warmer for flexible plastic bags containing foam precursor chemicals includes an outer housing and an inner enclosure supported within the housing, the inner enclosure having foraminous floor and ceiling plates and foraminous dividers which d... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6053358 | Lottery machine preventing lotteries from pulling out illegally A lottery machine preventing lotteries from drawing out illegally mainly includes a base, a lottery moving device, a face plate and a coil spring. A micro switch is provided on one of two parallel side plates of the base, and held in ON condition by a sto... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6050447 | Bulk vending machine system with mechanically operated electrically actuated locking and control function An electronically actuated and monitorable bulk vending machine assembly for electronically actuated vending from a select one of a plurality of rack mounted of bulk vending including at least one electrically lockable, crank actuated vending machine link... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5730316 | Multiple-product merchandising machine A multiple product merchandising machine having a cylindrical drum mounted within a cabinet and having a plurality of compartments of varying size which pass by at least one access door. The access door is mounted in the cabinet for sliding movement to al... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5445294 | Method for automatic dispensing of articles stored in a cabinet A mechanical system opens a selected drawer in a multiple-drawer cabinet. The drawers are arranged in rows and columns. A selected drawer is unlatched by moving a rod which has protruding fingers, only one of which is positioned to engage a latch in a col... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5360134 | Multiple-product merchandising machine A multiple-product merchandising machine having a cylindrical drum mounted within a cabinet. The drum is divided into a plurality of horizontal shelves each of which is divided by a plurality of vertical walls into separate compartments from which the pro... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5285926 | Multiple-product merchandising machine A multiple-product merchandising machine having a cylindrical drum mounted within a cabinet. The drum is divided into a plurality of horizontal shelves each of which is divided by a plurality of vertical walls into separate compartments from which the pro... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5263596 | Medication dispenser station sub-assembly A sub-assembly for use in a medication dispenser station for controller actuated dispensing of pharmaceutical items in single quantities from locked storage and allowing rapid reloading of more items all under extreme security and heightened accountabilit... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5224694 | Selectively disabled signature feeding apparatus In order to avoid disruption of a stack of signatures, particularly when a cyclically operable signature feeding apparatus is temporarily disabled, the utilization of a unique latch arrangement is contemplated. The feeding apparatus will generally include... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5169027 | Multiple-product merchandising machine A multiple-product merchandising machine having a cylindrical drum mounted within a cabinet. The drum is divided into a plurality of horizontal shelves each of which is divided by a plurality of vertical walls into separate compartments from which the pro... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5096088 | Automatic dispensing device for articles with blocking of the loading door and of the delivery door Automatic dispensing apparatus for articles, comprising an outer casing (1), a sliding door (6) movable vertically on associated slide guides (7) fixed to the outer casing, there being provided below the sliding access door a movable wall (11), equipped a... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5078382 | Paper feeder A paper feeder having a feed unit for dispensing paper from a paper containing unit and delivering the paper to a transport assembly. The feeder comprises a first guide portion for guiding the paper containing unit and a second guide portion for guiding t... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5062545 | Automatic vending machine dispensing mechanism A dispensing mechanism for an automatic vending machine includes a conveying mechanism to move merchandise toward a discharge passage, and a discharge control mechanism. The discharge control mechanism holds the merchandise and prevents the merchandise fr... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5048719 | Apparatus for storing, heating and dispensing portioned food items An apparatus for storing, heating and dispensing portioned foods items has a cooled storage unit for storing portioned food items, a cooking unit for heating the portioned food items, a transport lift unit for transferring the food items to be heated from... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048717 | Multiple-product merchandizing machine A multiple-product merchandizing machine having a cylindrical drum mounted within a cabinet. The drum is divided into a plurality of horizontal shelves each of which is divided by a plurality of vertical walls into separate compartments from which the pro... | 09/17/1991 |
| 4962798 | Buoy deployment system A buoy deployment system for an aircraft is disclosed which includes a multi-store gravity launching system which allows for discharge of different lengths and types of buoys. The gravity launch system includes a plurality of launch tubes, each including ... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4927051 | Multiple-product merchandising machine A multiple-product merchandising machine having a cylindrical drum mounted within a cabinet. The drum is divided into a plurality of horizontal shelves each of which is divided by a plurality of vertical walls into separate compartments from which the pro... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4921128 | Linear magazine for storing and automatically dispensing objects A linear magazine for storing and automatically dispensing objects (10) disposed in stacks or in lines within juxtaposed bins (1) includes an extractor cartridge (20) associated with each bin and co-operating with a cog belt (50) which is common to all of... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4804107 | Device in a vending machine A device in a vending machine in which articles are fed stepwise to a position of delivery opposite a delivery opening in the machine to be dispensed therefrom one by one, has a cover which is pivotal between a closed position in which it covers the deliv... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4712049 | Operation completion detection means Operation completion detection circuitry for a vend system including a plurality of individually controllably operable motors for performing a given type of operation, comprising power leads, a vend control circuit portion operatively connected to complet... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4616111 | Remote controlled key dispensing apparatus One or more security receptacles, provided for safekeeping keys, include a deposit opening especially configured in a shape corresponding to the longitudinal cross-section of the key handle. A set of ramps oblique and a normally locked horizontal ramp in ... | 10/07/1986 |
| 4282892 | Paper money dispensing means A method and apparatus for dispensing paper money or currency bills according to which the bills are lodged in transparent containers fed from a magazine adapted for use in vending, amusement, gaming and other coin-operated or coin-handling machines. The ... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4033477 | Dispensing apparatus having product access door sequential control mechanism A product dispensing machine of the type having conveyor means for moving successive product carriers, each divided into a plurality of separate product carrying compartments, into registry with a product dispensing zone, including separately shiftable ac... | 07/05/1977 |
| 4000800 | Electromechanical interlock device for a vending machine An electromechanical interlock device is interposed between an electrical credit system and a mechanical product dispenser. In preferred form, the interlock device includes a solenoid electrically connected to the credit system, and a drive cam adapted to... | 01/04/1977 |
