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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 |
| 7367252 | Integrated circuit package separators An integrated circuit package separator. A base having a plurality of pins extending upwardly therefrom is provided. A support is provided over the base. The support has an upper surface and a plurality of holes. The pins extend through the holes and upwardly beyond... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7299728 | Loaf end trimming station for slicing machine A loaf end trimming station for a high speed food loaf slicing machine, includes a frame, a first knife and a second knife spaced apart along the frame and oriented in positions corresponding to a lead end trimming location and a trailing end trimming location of a ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7032486 | Reciprocating saw comprising a program-controlled feed conveyor for advancing the item to be cut The description refers to a mill saw with a saw gate (3) driven via a slider-crank drive (4), whose parallel saw blades (5), which cut in only one stroke direction, are provided with a bias, and with a feed conveyor (6) for the stock to b... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6979153 | Deep-grooving insert having stepped cutting edge A deep-grooving chip-forming cutting insert includes a rear mounting portion, a front cutting portion, and a pair of side walls, each side wall extending along the front and rear portions. The front cutting portion includes a front end surface, a top surface, and a ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6668692 | Process and device for the control of a motorized feed drive The invention consists of a process for the control of the motorized feed drive for the movable workplace table of a machine tool, in particular the rolling carriage of a circular saw. The manual force that is applied by the operator in direction of the f... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6634282 | Sandwich machine An elongated frame made up of rails, and having a main endless belt conveyor for carrying parts of sandwiches, and completed sandwiches through the machine. A slicer carriage is mounted on and above the frame, having an endless slicer belt means parallel ... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6516693 | Process and device for the control of a motorized feed drive The invention consists of a process for the control of the motorized feed drive for the movable workplace table of a machine tool, in particular the rolling carriage of a circular saw. The manual force that is applied by the operator in direction of the f... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6170369 | Portable batt cutter A portable batt cutter custom cuts standard width, continuous, extended length fibrous insulation blankets at a construction site to form batts with specific dimensions corresponding to the dimensions of the structural framework cavities to be insulated. ... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6112630 | Cutting plotter A cutter plotter for drawing a roll type cutting sheet and cutting it, prevents bad influences accompanied with increasing of drawing resistance when drawing the roll type cutting sheet from a rolled part. If a feeding amount of the cutting sheet by a cut... | 09/05/2000 |
| 5974925 | Continuous feed for food loaf slicing machine A high speed slicing machine feeds two or more food loaves continuously along parallel loaf paths through an orifice member into a slicing station for slicing by one cyclically driven knife blade; the slices are stacked or shingled in groups on a receivin... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5950515 | Apparatus for slicing vegetables A method and apparatus for cutting a vegetable, such as a potato, into pieces suitable for the preparation of cottage-fried, french-fried, and shoestring potatoes, has a plurality of vertically arranged propelling units, each of which has a plurality of w... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5724874 | Method of manufacturing food loaf slice groups A high speed food loaf slicing machine slices two food loaves simultaneously, using one cyclically driven knife blade; the slices are stacked or shingled in groups on a receiving conveyor located below the slicing station. Independent loaf feed drives are... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5628237 | Slicing machine for two or more food loaves A high speed slicing machine supports first and second food loaves for movement along parallel loaf paths into a slicing station where both loaves are sliced by one cyclically driven knife blade; the slices are stacked or shingled in groups on a receiving... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5477762 | Device for automatic cutting of mushroom stems According to the invention, the cutting station also comprises, on the one hand, detection means capable of individually determining the length of the stem of each mushroom and, on the other hand, control means capable of adjusting the relative position o... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5421227 | Method of subdividing webs A web of coherent labels or coherent blanks of wrapping material is advanced along an elongated path toward a severing station where the web is cut at selected intervals by an orbiting knife in cooperation with a stationary or moving knife to yield a succ... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5199341 | In-line, adjustable gap cutting sheeter for printed webs A gap cutting sheeter having controls to adjust the cutting position of the first and second flying shears relative to each other to set the gap size to a particular printed sheet. The downstream flying shear can be set up to cut the leading edge or the f... | 04/06/1993 |
| 4942795 | Precision cutter with automated pressure control A saw apparatus comprises an operatable saw blade and a holding arm for gripping an object to be sawed, plus means for moving the saw blade and holding arm together to cause the saw blade to engage the object for sawing under controlled-pressure condition... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4644832 | Method for monitoring saw blade stability and controlling work feed rate on circular saw and bandsaw machines A position sensing transducer senses the lateral movement of the saw blade resulting from variable operating conditions. These sensed values are displayed on instrumentation for use by the saw machine operator, and are also used to automatically control w... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4624161 | High-speed cutting apparatus for card sheets A method and apparatus for high-speed and accurate cutting of cards from sheets, printed with an array of card layouts, moving along a unidirectional path. The apparatus includes rollers for initial accurate sheet feeding, a plurality of pairs of rotation... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4596172 | Lumber cutting saw The specification discloses an optimizing saw including a scanner unit having devices for measuring both the width and length of boards passing through the station whereby board feet can be calculated. More specifically, the width measuring device include... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4538492 | Bean cutter An inclined chute is provided for receiving side-by-side transversely extending elongated beans thereon for gravity lateral feeding of the beans downwardly along the chute. A rotary shaft is disposed outward of and below the lower end of the chute and a p... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4512228 | Automatic sausage slicing machine for salami and like products An automatic sausage slicing machine for salami and the like comprises a framework carrying an electric motor which drives an orbital blade and a feed device for continuously feeding a line of products to be sliced towards the path of displacement of the ... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4445411 | End dogging log feeder A single narrow track frame having guideways for a push chain and a holdback chain extends between a pair of vertical saws for cutting slabs or boards off opposite sides of a log or cant. The track frame is under the log. The push chain has upstanding pus... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4434692 | Grid-type bread-slicing machine A bread slicing machine comprises a grid (20) of vertically set blades (22) which are reciprocated longitudinally by an oscillator (29) driven by an electric motor (M2). Bread to be sliced is fed to the grid (20) by a horizontally reciprocable table (13) ... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4104940 | Nibbling machine having automatically adjustable feed control A nibbling machine comprises a workpiece support which is driven by separate drive motors in longitudinal and transverse directions to shift the workpiece during the times at which it is not contacted by a punch which is arranged to reciprocate over the w... | 08/08/1978 |
| 4020722 | Machine drive assemblies A continuous web of paper is fed from a reel by a driven roller and a cooperating pressure roller and cut into sheets by a pair of rotating knives. The shafts on which the driven roller and one of the knives are mounted, are drivingly connected by a prese... | 05/03/1977 |
| 4015494 | Cold cut slicing system A high speed automatic cold cut feeding, slicing and weighing system which is completely electrical in operation and control to provide cleanliness in operation, high speed, simplified control of all functions of the machine, and extreme accuracy in weigh... | 04/05/1977 |
