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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 |
| 7275991 | Slot machine with ticket-in/ticket-out capability A gaming apparatus which comprises a slat machine capable of accepting either paper currency, preprinted coupons, or cash out slips. The slot machine also includes a printer that prints and dispenses cash out slips which include a bar code representing a unique iden... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7216790 | Component feeding apparatus In a component feeding apparatus, forwarding pitches of the storage tape are reduced without using an alternative forwarding gear corresponding to the reduced pitches. The component feeding apparatus feeds chip components by intermittently forwarding the storage tap... | 05/15/2007 |
| 6656433 | Vial access device for use with various size drug vials An adapter for mounting on drug vial of various sizes to provide needleless access to the interior of each vial regardless of its size. The adapter includes sharpened cannula surrounded by peripheral sidewall. The peripheral sidewall includes an upper por... | 12/02/2003 |
| 5146662 | Lead frame cutting apparatus for various sized integrated circuit packages and method therefor A lead frame cutting apparatus for various sized integrated circuit packages and method therefor is disclosed. This apparatus employs punches in conjunction with a thin L-shaped cutting plate, which is also symmetrical, allowing both sides to be used. Thi... | 09/15/1992 |
| 4143807 | Music roll perforating process and apparatus The music roll perforating system permits a paper music roll to be perforated from a special previously prepared magnetic tape containing a digital recording of a music rendition. The process and apparatus disclosed uses a small computer to drive a music ... | 03/13/1979 |
| 3964672 | Punching, reading and printing machine for document cards A punching, reading and printing machine for document cards having a hopper holding the cards in vertical disposition, card transporting means moving the cards out of the hopper into horizontal disposition in a horizontal card path and closely spaced punc... | 06/22/1976 |
| 3952943 | Apparatus for swaging the movement control belts for controlling operating groups of a knitting machine An apparatus for swaging the movement control belts for controlling the operational groups of a knitting machine comprising a punching bar, a die, punches, a punch bearing plate, entrainment means, a movement control belt, punch selection means, and a sel... | 04/27/1976 |
