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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 |
| 7335130 | Toroidal-type continuously variable transmission A toroidal-type continuously variable transmission has a casing; an input disk and an output disk rotatably supported concentrically with each other; a plurality of power rollers each held between the input and output disks; a plurality of trunnions disposed at posi... | 02/26/2008 |
| 4872395 | Crosshead per se, and in combination with a connecting rod assembly and a piston rod The crosshead has a body formed of solid, metal plate, and of substantially U-shape. It comprises a pair of spaced-apart parallel limbs which are bridged between by an integral transverse member, and the latter is bored through to receive a piston rod the... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4767221 | Compliant hydrodynamic gas lubricated thrust bearing A self-pressurizing compliant gas thrust bearing includes a resilient support system having a multi-stage spring arrangement for supporting a flexible foil. The compliant and resilient support system enables the bearing to accomodate extreme transient loa... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4609062 | Heavy-duty industrial weighing scale A weighing scale of the type utilizing a lever assembly to transfer a load from a weighing platform to a weight indicator by way of a suspension assembly interconnecting a platform load-transmitting beam to a lever of the lever assembly, with a suspension... | 09/02/1986 |
| 3950859 | Angular displacement measuring apparatus Angular displacements are measured relative to either an external magnetic field as in a compass or relative to a vertical reference as in inclinometers or the like by selective orientation of the device. A bistable weight balancing apparatus and a dual b... | 04/20/1976 |
