Did You Know...
...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.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5746263 | Method of producing a wooden package or container and a wooden package or container The present invention concerns a method of producing a wooden package or container from an elongated piece of wood, e.g., a precut alder or birch piece (block). The invention is implemented by separating at least one essentially cylindrical, hollow blank ... | 05/05/1998 |
| 4824510 | Method and apparatus for assembling box units An apparatus and method for assembling elongate box units are disclosed. The apparatus includes plural, elongate clamping elements which are constructed to define a corner configuration for adjacent side pieces of a box unit. Plural, elongate tensioning r... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4422488 | Machine for producing drawer-sides The machine described in this disclosure serves to produce pairs of drawer sides from a panel, the thickness of which is slightly more than twice the thickness of one drawer-side; a first arrangement of saws cuts the panel to a predetermined drawer-side h... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4243081 | Automatic apparatus for machining panels, planks and similar articles made of wood, wooden derivatives and the like Disclosed herein is an automatic apparatus for machining panels or similar articles and, particularly, for drilling and milling them in accordance with the "Folding" system. With this apparatus, the panel to be machined is carried by conveyor means, in a ... | 01/06/1981 |
