...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 |
| 7210387 | Vertical band saw machine A vertical band saw machine includes a base, an upright post extending from the base, amounting frame slidably retained relative to the upright post, upper and lower blade mounting pulleys and a tension-equalizing guider pulley rotatably mounted on the mounting fram... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7028683 | Structural improvement in a portable stone cutter A structural improvement in a portable stone cutter includes a box like rectangular base being separated in the center by a partition into a water sink and motor compartment abutting a plain surface, to which a switch and piece of electric wire are disposed. The mot... | 04/18/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6772749 | Band saw A band saw with a complex coordination of a tilting motion and a translational motion between the workpiece and the band saw blade, so that a curved cut is made in the workpiece. The geometric parameters of the cut can be continuously adjusted. This makes it possibl... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6655252 | Conveyor device for miter-box saws A conveyor device for miter-box saws which is arranged for movement horizontally perpendicular in relation to the direction of conveyance in order to be able to avoid any possible swivelling of the miter-box saw. The horizontal travel of the conveyor devi... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6644163 | Apparatus for adjusting the worktable of the band sawing machine An apparatus for adjusting the worktable of the band sawing comprising a base providing at the band sawing machine. Two turning pieces, each of which has a first guiding slot, a second guiding slot and a rack. The turning pieces fix at the bottom side of ... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6601493 | Band saw fence systems and methods A fence system for a band saw. The band saw defines an actual cutting plane and has a table having a table surface defining a desired cutting plane. The fence system comprises a rail member, a base member, a locking assembly, a fence member defining a fen... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6293000 | Table saw construction for dismantling of pallets A table saw for use in dismantling wood pallets is provided with a table and band saw blade having course over table to cut nails between face boards and stringers as pallet is moved through blade. Table has convex, arcuate fence about which pallet may be... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6267037 | Pipeline cutting apparatus An underwater apparatus for servicing subsea pipelines provides a telescoping frame which can be lowered to the vicinity of the pipeline. The frame has an open section so that it can straddle the pipeline and outer jacket and fixate itself releasably so t... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6128992 | Saw for removing top and bottom pallet deck boards A saw for removing opposing deck boards from a pallet. A pair of band saws are suspendedly and pivotally mounted to a frame. Guide fingers extend between the saw blades to engage the opposing surfaces of pallet deck boards to automatically position the sa... | 10/10/2000 |
| 5320016 | Vertical band saw To permit miter cuts clear through a workpiece, or for selected depths, a saw band carrier (6) supports a pair of saw band wheels (7, 8) above and below a workpiece support (2), and the saw band wheel carrier (6) is pivotable about a substantially vertica... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5295896 | Bone-cutting meat-recovering unit A bone-cutting meat recovery unit having a platform tilted off horizontal with an elongated channel formed in its upper surface and a vertically extending powered band saw running through the platform immediately adjacent the channel at an angle thereto o... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5243888 | Pivoting carriage and saw A pivoting carriage and saw which is characterized in a preferred embodiment by a carriage capable of receiving curved logs and pivotally mounted on a linear-operated trolley for engaging the logs with a pivoting band saw and cutting a selected non-linear... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5226404 | Cutting apparatus A cutting apparatus comprises an endless chain body comprising a plurality of plate-like flaps connected to each other for angular movement in a common plane. Each flap has an end face on an inner peripheral side of the chain body, and at least a part of ... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5107738 | Two-way band saw machine To cut a workpiece along two different cutting directions, the band saw teeth are set in a first vertical cutting direction by a band saw guide device and then the cutting head (CH) is moved frontward, for instance; thereafter, the band saw teeth are twis... | 04/28/1992 |
| 4926728 | Band saw for cutting shaped pieces of bar stock The present invention relates to a band saw machine having the capability to produce finished piece parts by employing a rotatable collet and an index vise to rotate and longitudinally position the piece part, a band saw blade positioned in a blade twist ... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4922777 | Band saw for cutting shaped pieces of bar stock The present invention relates to a band saw machine having the capability to produce finished piece parts by employing a rotatable collet and an index vise to rotate and longitudinally position the piece part, a band saw blade positioned in a blade twist ... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4854208 | Two-way band saw machine To cut a workpiece along two different cutting directions, the band saw teeth are set horizontally by a band saw guide device and then the cutting head (CH) is moved frontward, for instance; thereafter, the band saw teeth are twisted downward by the same ... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4606254 | Arrangement for manufacturing curved wall portions of heat insulating walls An arrangement for manufacturing curved wall portions of a heat insulating wall, and particularly for cutting a block of heat-insulating synthetic foam material over a contour embracing a section of a container surface to be insulated, has a chain saw wit... | 08/19/1986 |