...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 |
| 7091459 | Cooking apparatus A cooking apparatus, in which lamps are conveniently and quickly replaced, including a lamp assembly having a lamp casing accommodating lamps and covering an irradiation hole formed in a front panel, and a transparent plate completely covering the irradiation hole. ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 6471114 | Multiple flame torch tip and method Torch tip for a torch, the tip adapted to be in fluid communication with a fuel gas and oxygen source for generating a flame, the torch tip including a tubular or substantially tubular body having a plurality of flame emitting spaced orifices, wherein the... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6457628 | Safety switch device for gas jet soldering gun A safety switch device for a gas jet soldering gun includes a ignition push button having an outer periphery provided with a locking drive block, a housing having an inner wall defining an L-shaped drive slot mating with the locking drive block, and a spr... | 10/01/2002 |
| 4648380 | Heating apparatus using liquefied gas A heating apparatus using liquefied gas comprises a control valve which controls the gas flow rate by the rotating operation of a flow rate control member and which is rendered open to discharge a gas under flow rate control from the top end of a cylindri... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4545361 | Gas horseshoe forge A portable gas forge. The forge is comprised of a housing having an insulated interior and an opening for insertion of the article to be heated such as a horseshoe or the like. The forge is resistant to blow-out by wind when used in the field and has a sp... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4424795 | Heater box for use as an improved portable soldering furnace unit The present invention is a heater box for use in combination with a heating unit in an improved portable soldering furnace which includes a casing having a base and a hood which covers the base. The base has a first compartment wherein a soldering iron, h... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4340029 | Portable soldering iron heater system A light weight, portable, and self-contained soldering iron heating device in which one or more propane gas containers or equivalent provide fuel to two burners through a manifold which has independent burner fuel controls. The burners are located in a fi... | 07/20/1982 |