...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 |
| 6892637 | Self-inking stamp with ink cartridge barrier A stamp pad holder for use in a self-inking hand stamp. The stamp pad holder has a stamp die box that holds a stamp forming material, ink cartridge and plastic within the die box. The stamp forming material is placed at the bottom of the die box. A pre-inked ink car... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6834584 | Pocket hand stamp A compact hand stamp is disclosed. The hand stamp may include a platen and corresponding marking structure that can be moved between a rest position, where a design on the marking structure is remote from a surface to be imprinted and is arranged at an angle of abou... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6584898 | Pad-printing ink cup The invention concerns a pad-printing ink cup fitted with at least one magnet (10). The minimum of one magnet (10) may be positioned at different heights relative to the plane of the doctor edge (22), the magnetic force effective in the said plane dependi... | 07/01/2003 |
| 4697517 | Inking apparatus for a mailing machine In a mailing machine, having a removable postage meter with a rotatable printing drum and printing die there is an inking apparatus included with the mailing machine. The inking apparatus has a ink supply cartridge which engages an ink transfer roller mou... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4606270 | Inking apparatus for a value printing device An improved value print device having incorporated within the device improved linkages for imparting a reciprocal motion to the carriage, housing and inking roller.... | 08/19/1986 |
| 4580496 | Inker mounting arrangement for a value printing device An improved value print device having incorporated within the device improved mechanism for detachably coupling a housing with an inking roller to a reciprocal carriage and new structures on the housing for permitting the convenient removal of the housing... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4566386 | Hot ink imprinter with swinging print head A hot ink imprinter and method wherein a print head carrying marking type face is swingingly supported by a rocker arm for cyclical swinging, in one phase of which type face carried by the head effects imprinting of a workpiece, and in a second phase of w... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4528908 | Rotating air cylinder driven hot ink marker A hot ink imprinter and method wherein a print head carrying a marking type face is swingingly supported by shafts extended through a pivotable mounting block for cyclical swinging, in one phase of which type face carried by the head effects imprinting of... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4498389 | Labeler with inking mechanism There is disclosed label printing and applying apparatus by which labels are successively printed and applied to merchandise. The apparatus feeds pressure sensitive labels mounted on a web of supporting material to a printing zone and to a delaminating zo... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4444108 | Printing apparatus and process A printing apparatus is disclosed wherein rocking motion of a movably mounted inking roll assembly is controlled by a cam and follower arrangement coupled to the drive system for a pivoting printing member. The cam and follower arrangement allows coordina... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4440083 | Disposable inking cartridge A disposable inking cartridge in combination with a housing for transferring ink to a secondary surface, including a housing having a pair of sidewalls, each of the sidewalls having a locating guide, wherein the locating guide includes at its trailing end... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4419171 | Portable labeling machine The machine intended for printing two lines of characters of different color (8, 9) on self-adhesive labels comprises two printheads mounted in a rocking housing (7). This housing comprises two holding elements (14, 16) engaged in two guide slots (17, 19)... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4359940 | Ink supply devices for portable labeling machine The disclosure concerns an ink supply device for use in a labeling machine. The ink supply device includes at least one inking roller. Guide slots formed in the side plates of the frame of the labeling machine guide the inking roller to roll over the prin... | 11/23/1982 |
| 4325302 | Apparatus for printing and applying pressure sensitive labels Apparatus for printing and applying pressure-sensitive labels carried on a release liner of supporting material where the label stock advancement mechanism is a feed wheel which advances the release liner. A brake prevents movement of the label stock duri... | 04/20/1982 |
| 4323011 | Actuating stamp with free-turning inking roller There is shown an inking apparatus for stamping on a localized area, and with a speedy application, a selected reproduction to a travelling or advanced product. This inking roller is free-turning with a light brake to prevent free wheeling. A four-bar lin... | 04/06/1982 |
| 4313377 | Ink supply device for hand labeler An ink supply device for inking the types of a hand labeler device, usually including at least two inking rollers which are rotatable over the type surfaces of a printing head; these ink rollers are removably held in an ink roller assembly which is, in tu... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4226183 | Ink supply device for label printing machine An ink supply device for use with a desk type label printing or tagging machine: The machine includes a printing head that is movable up and down for printing the labels of a continuous strip. The ink supply device includes an ink roller for rolling over ... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4216715 | Cartridge-type ink supply device for labeling machines The disclosure relates to a cartridge type supply device for use with a portable, one-hand-operable labeling machine of the type including a printing mechanism with printing types arranged for imprinting inscriptions on each of a series of labels travelin... | 08/12/1980 |
| 4213389 | Ink supply device for hand labeler An ink supply device for inking the types of a hand labeler device, usually including at least two inking rollers which are rotatable over the type surfaces of a printing head; these ink rollers are removably held in an ink roller assembly which is, in tu... | 07/22/1980 |
| 4194448 | Printing device especially for labelling appliances In a printing device such as labelling appliance having a printing table, a printer movably mounted with respect to the table, an ink carrier which inks printing types carried by the printer, an inking pivot member which holds the ink carrier at the free ... | 03/25/1980 |
| 4178849 | Inking device for label printing and applying machine An inking device for a label printing and applying machine, or the like: the inking device has a multi-link mechanism which comprises yoke arms operated by the squeezing of a hand lever, a supporting member for supporting inking rollers, a plurality of li... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4164182 | Cartridge-type ink supply device for labeling machines The disclosure relates to a cartridge type supply device for use with a portable, one-hand-operable labeling machine of the type including a printing mechanism with printing types arranged for imprinting inscriptions on each of a series of labels travelin... | 08/14/1979 |
| 4164185 | Inking mechanism There is disclosed a printing, feeding and severing method and apparatus for carrying out the method. The apparatus includes a print head assembly and a platen assembly movable relatively toward and away from each other into and out of printing cooperatio... | 08/14/1979 |
| 4119033 | Ink roller device for printing head of hand labeler An ink roller device for use with a printing head of a hand labeler, or the like: an ink roller holder including a mounting assembly having a clip adapted to be removably mounted to the hand labeler; a pair of arms extend from the mounting assembly; each ... | 10/10/1978 |
| 4100852 | Label printing apparatus There is disclosed label printing and applying apparatus by which labels are successively printed and applied to merchandise. The apparatus feeds pressure sensitive labels mounted on a web of supporting material to a printing zone and to a delaminating zo... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4083300 | Cartridge-type ink supply device for labeling machines The disclosure relates to a cartridge type supply device for use with a portable, one-hand-operable labeling machine of the type including a printing mechanism with printing types arranged for imprinting inscriptions on each of a series of labels travelin... | 04/11/1978 |
| 4068584 | Cartridge-type ink supply device for labeling machines The disclosure relates to a cartridge type supply device for use with a portable, one-hand-operable labeling machine of the type including a printing mechanism with printing types arranged for imprinting inscriptions on each of a series of labels travelin... | 01/17/1978 |
| 4044677 | Inking mechanism There is disclosed a printing apparatus having a print head and an inking mechanism for inking the print head. The inking mechanism comprises an ink roller, an inker body or carrier for the ink roller and structure for movably mounting the inker body. The... | 08/30/1977 |
| 4027766 | Inking device for the type-carrier element of a calculating machine A device for inking the type-carrier element of a calculating machine or similar office machine. The type-carrier element includes a wheel from the edge of which protrudes corresponding characters. These are selected by a recording support for the rotatio... | 06/07/1977 |