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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 |
| 7303115 | Cupcake crate A cupcake carrier for organizing and protecting cupcakes during storage and transit includes a container formed of a singled sheet of planar material and having flaps folded in assembly to form an upwardly opening cavity carrying an insert tray formed of a single sh... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7165559 | Cosmetic makeup kit A cosmetic kit has a backing portion on which there are receptacles for containing cosmetics. Each receptacle contains a cosmetic suitable for use on a different portion of the human face. The receptacles themselves or a mask which overlies the receptacles are in sh... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7014160 | Washing machine base for securing a central mechanism A washing machine base that protects and cushions the washing machine and secures the washing machine transmission or other mechanism suspended below the washer tub during assembly and shipping, even if the appliance is tilted. The base may be formed entirely from c... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6971513 | Packaging system for door hardware A packaging system for a door knob assembly is disclosed which includes a clear or translucent extruded tubular member for encasing a door knob, lever, deadbolt or other door hardware or accessory. A pair of end caps are disposed at opposite ends of the tubular memb... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6743493 | Composite form with imprintable magnetic card The present invention relates to a composite form and a method of printing the form. The composite form has a paper component and a flexible magnetic sheet component that are adhered to one another. The magnetic component is able to adhere to a ferromagnetic surface... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6691869 | Folding box with inner base offset to the inside of the box A folding box having a rectangular pack casing, a lid part which is connected on the border side of the pack casing and is provided with an insertion flap which engages in the pack casing, wherein articulated in the base region, on one of the four walls w... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6688649 | Form with integrated label or fold-over card intermediate and photograph well A form with a well has a form layer with a top and a bottom surface and a perimeter, a die cut through the form layer that defines a portion of said form layer within said die cut, a patch layer having a perimeter and top and bottom surfaces, and an adhes... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6439792 | Device for dispensing a seasoning A device for dispensing a liquid, pasty or powdered seasoning, comprising at least one perforation provided in a surface of one end of the device. The perforation being closed off by a removable strip and the surface being extended by a free part cut into... | 08/27/2002 |
| 5810163 | Holder structure for film cartridge and filing-box type album A holder structure for allowing a film cartridge of the Advanced Photo System to be stored and retrieved and a filing-box type album that incorporates the holder structure. The holder structure is constructed by forming a storage socket of a substantially... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5518119 | Heat-seal package and method of packaging According to the present invention, in overwrapping an object to be packaged, the object is wrapped with a packaging material in such a manner as to form a tubular shape, which packaging material is heat-sealable on both sides thereof and, as required, ha... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5485918 | Packaging assembly According to the present invention there is provided a packaging assembly for enclosing and protecting a plurality of back-up pads having a generally disc or frusto-conically disc shaped resilient portion. The packaging assembly comprises an elongate bott... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5392919 | Capture display package A package for an elongated object such as a flashlight consists of a front panel and a rear panel, with two or more spaced V-shaped ribs being formed in the front panel. One end of the object is engaged with a first one of the ribs, and the opposite end o... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5337897 | Sampler cartridge display case and unit sampler A cartridge containing a stack of samplers, dispensed one by one through an end slot in the cartridge and a display case to contain a plurality of such cartridges together with identifying indicia and actual product and a unitized structure constituting a... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5096060 | Packaging system for a basin, lavatory or sink An open-ended nestable shipping container with an integral holding and locating panel and a container blank for forming such a container is disclosed. In one embodiment there is provided an article top panel whose size is larger that the article top such ... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5078264 | Jewelry display card Apparatus for displaying ear rings for use with pierced ears, including a front panel on which an ear ring ornament appears and a locking panel located at the rear of the front panel for holding a clutch in place.... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5050735 | Specimen strip package A specimen kit for collection, preservation and dispatch of smear specimens collected on a glass slide makes use of a single sheet of package material having short fold-over panels at opposite end edges and long fold-over overlapping panels at the side ed... | 09/24/1991 |
| 4958727 | Showcase for storing and displaying post-type earrings A showcase comprising a flexible rectangular cover sheet, a flexible substantially-rectangular mounting sheet having holes therein, and a flexible substantially-rectangular spacer sheet; all bound together along folds therein with stitching. A stiffener i... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4880117 | Display card assembly for ring-like ornamental articles A display card assembly includes first and second substantially flat cards having first and second apertures therein, respectively, and an elongated substantially flat retaining member which is dimensioned for receiving a ring-like ornamental article ther... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4832842 | Filter chest for use with multiple filter units, for laboratories, and with the filter units A chest in which a vacuum is formed. A removable tray in the form of a flat thin panel rests in the chest adjacent the top, and is provided with a pattern of holes in which test tubes are placed and supported. A cover has a similar pattern of holes in whi... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4805773 | Laminate multimedia sampling device A multiplicity of individual samples of various materials are provided from a single article comprising a spacer layer with a multiplicity of holes which expose a number of different samples on support surfaces. Not all of the samples are on the same supp... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4765471 | Electrical component carrier An electrical component carrier comprises a plate assembly. The assembly has a non-conductive plate sandwiched between two conductive plates. The plates of the assembly have holes to receive the pins of the component to be carried, the holes being in regi... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4739884 | Package insert for the separation of layers of articles A package insert between two layers of articles comprises a rigid plate formed with openings spanned by at least one and preferably two flexible and advantageously elastic films which are deformed when upper articles are stacked on lower articles through ... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4687103 | Jewelry display device A device for displaying or storing jewelry such as pierced earrings, medals, nametags and like items having a decorative front portion and a back portion having at least one pin-like shaft which cooperates with a clamp to hold such items in place on the u... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4681224 | Florist's implement A florist's implement for temporarily stabilizing a flower or plant container or the like during transport is disclosed. The implement includes first and second square sheets of a flexible material hingedly connected to one another such that the sheets ma... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4666040 | Small article holding package This invention relates to packages for holding therein small articles, particularly those which are relatively thin or those which can be packed together into a sheet-like shape, the package comprising a base sheet having at least one small article placed... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4629070 | Holder for photographic film strips Transparent plastic film holders are provided containing one or a plurality of pockets for photographic items such as strips of photographic film, negatives, prints or individual frames thereof which are formed by attaching two plies of transparent films ... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4518086 | Reinforced display carton and blank therefor A display package is formed by a carton which is wrapped around a container. The carton has a top panel, upper panels extending from the top panel, side panels depending from the upper panels and a bottom panel coupled to the side panels along its edges r... | 05/21/1985 |
| 4391371 | Fiberboard shipping container having laminated spacing members A fiberboard container for the shipment of fragile and irregularly shaped articles includes a top tray, a bottom tray and, in some cases, a protective sleeve between the trays. Each of the trays has cavities to hold the articles, the cavities being formed... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4261466 | Retention of articles on a sheet An assembly of an article, for example a toy vehicle, retained on a sheet comprises a holding device securing the article on an upper surface of the sheet and having depending legs which extend through corresponding apertures in the sheet and in a body po... | 04/14/1981 |
| 4235336 | Flash array package A FlipFlash type of flash array having a body portion and a pair of connectors extending from opposite ends of the body portion and offset from the front face of the body portion, is packaged in a display sheet having an opening through which the front pa... | 11/25/1980 |
| 4185739 | Retention of articles on a sheet An assembly of an article, for example a toy vehicle, retained on a sheet in which the article is located on one side of the sheet and is held by a retainer which comprises a body portion on the opposite side of the sheet to the article and projections wh... | 01/29/1980 |
| 4083451 | Method of heat sealing sheet-form layers of perforated plastic between layers of paperboard Each sheet-form layer of plastic film to be superposed with another layer between layers of non-heat conducting material, such as paperboard, is perforated in a pattern such that, when the layers of plastic are superposed between the layers of normally no... | 04/11/1978 |
