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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 |
| 4610252 | Dual muscle clamp A dual muscle clamp used in ocular surgery. Two pairs of spaced jaws are connected to a dual element handle. The handle elements are pivotally connected together to move the jaws between clamping and spread conditions to clamp and release tissue. Spring p... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4608982 | Forceps Surgical forceps for use and association with a catheter for gaining access to a body cavity so as to release fluid therefrom. The forceps include handle means which preferably are finger loops attached to a pair of elongate members pivotally attached to ... | 09/02/1986 |
| 4605002 | Purse-string instrument A new purse-string instrument having arc shaped jaws and handles is described, by which it is possible to place mechanically, in surgery, purse-string sutures in very narrow and deep areas of the organism.... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4602623 | Method of delivering a fetus A method and apparatus for delivering a fetus, particularly a human fetus, are disclosed. One or more sheets of material are disposed in the maternal delivery canal between a part of the fetus and the canal wall. An appropriate surface or surfaces have a ... | 07/29/1986 |
| 4580567 | Suture needle holder A typical embodiment of the invention enables a surgeon to occupy only one and in manipulating a suture needle. The instrument thumb handle has, on one end, a freely rotatable short roller. The ring finger handle, moreover, has a long roller that is journa... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4574804 | Optic nerve clamp An optic nerve clamp, useful for surgical enucleation includes a pair of clampingly abutting, pivotally connected jaws with tip portions which curve out of the plane perpendicular to and extending through the pivot axis of said jaws. One of the tip portio... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4572179 | Apparatus for removing swine tails This invention is a method, and an apparatus for practicing said method, wherein a resilient ring-like member of rubber or the like is expanded in a triangular configuration and slipped over the tails of swine for the purposes of totally interrupting the ... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4570633 | Surgical clip applier instrument adapter jaws An adapter assembly is provided for a medical instrument designed to apply a first legating clip which has a first exterior configuration. The adapter assembly is provided with an adapter member associated with each jaw of the instrument to accommodate a ... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4545374 | Method and instruments for performing a percutaneous lumbar diskectomy A method for percutaneously accessing the lumbar region of the spinal column by laterally inserting a cannula through the patient's side above the pelvic crest to contact a predetermined position in the lumbar region and passing objects such as medical in... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4475544 | Bone gripping forceps A bone clamp for temporarily applying compressive force to portions of bone during surgical procedures has a configuration of a forceps. The device has a pair of sharp distal ends which are turned inwardly so that the bone may be gripped between the ends.... | 10/09/1984 |
| 4467803 | Oral temporary total hemostatic clamps This invention is directed to hemostasis in the lips and the mucosal side of the cheek. These devices are not used for stopping each vessel from bleeding but are used for temporarily stopping the total blood supply to the entire surgical area. Model A has... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4422451 | Spinal compression and distraction instrumentation A hook for spinal compression and distraction instrumentation comprises a main body section having a pair of opposite side surfaces, opposite top and bottom surfaces and opposite front and rear surfaces. A hook portion is connected to and extends from the... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4411259 | Apparatus for engaging a hook assembly to a spinal column A method and apparatus for use in the treatment of spinal fractures and scoliosis. Windowed hook holders are used to firmly grasp and position hooks having a slotted base and a projecting hook on the spinal column. The projecting hook is used to engage th... | 10/25/1983 |
| 4397312 | Clip applying forceps A forceps for applying metal clips for surgical use is disclosed, the clips being applied to blood vessels to shut off flow through the blood vessel, the forceps being capable of being opened to a much greater extent than heretofore, by shifting the posit... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4369788 | Reversed forceps for microdisc surgery Forceps of the alligator jaw type, that can be held by a surgeon in a reversed backhand grip while observing the movable jaw during microlumbar discectomy, comprise three linkage devices for resisting twisting forces that tend to separate the sliding arms... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4325375 | Instrument for inserting and removing intraocular lens The instrument is small and has a pair of jaws manipulable by the use of only two fingers on one hand for inserting and/or removing intraocular lens having centering strands. One jaw is fixed to one end of a tubular member. The other jaw is fixed to one e... | 04/20/1982 |
| 4318313 | Tweezer forceps Tweezer forceps in which the gripping arms and end section at which they are joined are formed of a single sheet of resilient sheet material, the arms and end section forming an integral spring-element disposed within the plane of the sheet material, such... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4300564 | Forceps for extracting stones in the pelvis of a kidney A forceps for extracting stones in the pelvis of a kidney comprises a pair of shanks pivotally connected to each other and each having a finger ring at one end, a pair of arms extending from the other ends of the respective shanks away from the finger rin... | 11/17/1981 |
| 4286598 | Forceps for isolation of part of blood vessel during anastomosis A forceps for isolation of a part of a blood vessel during anastomosis comprises hinged levers and an automatic lock to hold the levers in the closed position. There are rings at one end of each lever, by which the forceps is held. The other ends of the l... | 09/01/1981 |
| 4248233 | Forceps Forceps characterized by leg-carried, separation distance controlling, devices which may be selectively manipulated.... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4226241 | Surgical forceps Surgical forceps comprising cross members having a pair of gripping arms pivotally connected to a pair of clamping arms which terminate with a pair of slightly curved, serrated mating jaws having aligned notches disposed on their outer surfaces to accommo... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226240 | Surgical foreceps Surgical forceps comprising cross members having a pair of gripping arms pivotally connected to a pair of clamping arms comprising a pair of end members directed away from the axis of the gripping arms and terminating with a pair of slightly curved mating... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4205681 | Instrument for closed compression rupture of contracted fibrous capsule surrounding breast implant A plurality of the elongated grippers are mounted in spaced apart, axially parallel, relation to project perpendicularly from opposing, substantially semi-circular, jaws of a pair of blades pivoted at a midportion thereof in scissor-fashion. A pair of lev... | 06/03/1980 |
| 4201213 | Surgical tool A surgical tool comprises a slidable member having a passage therethrough such as a substantially cylindrical hollow tube. The distal end of the slidable member serves as a first jaw component. An elongated member is positioned in the passage and has a se... | 05/06/1980 |
| 4192313 | Forceps designed to facilitate insertion of a laminaria tent into the uterine cervix A forceps constructed of a pair of interconnected members in which the fore end of the pair of members each include a plurality of elongated grooves. The elongated grooves of the members are to cooperate together to facilitate clamping onto a Laminaria te... | 03/11/1980 |
| 4170043 | Coated intraocular lens and surgical tool An intraocular lens or surgical tool used for eye surgery which is covered with a biocompatible water-soluble adherent film coating that has a very slow dissolution rate which maintains at least 40% of the coating on the lens for at least 30 minutes, but ... | 10/09/1979 |
| 4165746 | Plastic forceps A pair of disposable plastic forceps includes elongated arms, each having a proximal end portion providing a handle and a distal end portion for attachment of a contacting member to each of the arms, and a hinge for movably connecting the arms to one anot... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4146022 | Fracture fixation by cerclage utilizing cortical bone tack and pull-out tension device An orthopedic implant for use in the internal fixation of a bone fracture by wiring, a method of fracture fixation by wiring which avoids bone resorption, and means for embedding the implant in the cortex of a bone adjacent the fracture site. The implant ... | 03/27/1979 |
| 4135506 | Method of and device for pinning a fractured vertebra A bone pin for a fractured vertebra has a pair of ends, a bend between the ends, and at least one laterally extending lug at one of the ends. A nonstraight hole is drilled in a vertebra or between two vertebrae and the pin is inserted by means of a specia... | 01/23/1979 |
| 4120302 | Disposable pads for surgical instruments A disposable pad for use with a surgical instrument having a supporting element. The pad includes a flexible elongated member having a channel therein for slidably receiving the supporting element. A stop member limits longitudinal insertion of the suppor... | 10/17/1978 |
| 4088134 | Forceps A forceps which includes two halves with each half having an elongate body portion with a handle member on one end portion and a distal tip on the other end portion. Spaced hinge parts are carried on the body portion of one half and engage inset recesses ... | 05/09/1978 |
| 4043343 | Forceps In forceps having a pair of handles one of which is hinged for reciprocal movement relative to the other, extension arms between the handles one of the arms being reciprocally slidable along the other arm, upper and lower jaw members one of which is hinge... | 08/23/1977 |
| 4024870 | No-tear towel clamp A surgical towel and drape clamp having opposed jaw members connected to and opened and closed by the action of pivotally interconnected shank members having finger loop members and locking ratchet members is provided with tip means on one of said jaw mem... | 05/24/1977 |
