...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 |
| 7357399 | Post hole digger stand A post hole digger stand for supporting a post hole digger assembly. The stand has a planar base mounted on surface engaging members such as steerable casters. A pair of vertical support arms are mounted on the base with a transverse movable support bar mounted on t... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7331880 | Soccer goal retainer A Soccer Goal Retainer including an enclosure buried in the ground. A bar is mounted in the enclosure and rotates about its longitudinal axis. The bar is located toward the front wall and base of the enclosure. A clamp plate is mounted on the bar by hand bolts which... | 02/19/2008 |
| 6394286 | Area rug hanging display A display rack for displaying a plurality of rugs includes a plurality of generally upright elongate support posts connected side by side by a support frame with each post having mounted thereon for sliding movement therealong a respective one of a plural... | 05/28/2002 |
| 5352081 | Goods handling apparatus and method A plurality of goods contained at random or in a predetermined arrangement, particularly in a three rows or more in a container such as a corrugated fiberboard box and a plastic container, etc., are stored in a goods storage device arranged in no more tha... | 10/04/1994 |
| 4645221 | Arrangement of a container on a vehicle A container such as a fuel tank pivotally mounted on a vehicle for movement between an operation position adjacent the vehicle and an assembly position remote from said vehicle. The pivotal movement is accomplished by having a support for the container th... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4312454 | Modular construction element for building a pigeonhole-type wall A modular construction element for building a pigeonhole wall has planar front and back faces flanking a central plane. A rectangular back panel has upper and lower edges bridged by side edges and is formed along the full length of its lower edge with a 4... | 01/26/1982 |
| 4103778 | Display rack A display rack for bolts of fabric and the like includes a plurality of freely rotatable display arms mounted on an elongated support member. In a prefered embodiment of the invention, two tiers of display arms are disposed.... | 08/01/1978 |
| 3976000 | Rotatable and vertically adjustable rack In the preferred form the present invention is directed to a cavity having a side opening and a rack adapted so as to be rotatable between a position within the cavity and a position outside of the cavity. The rack is mounted on a threaded member having a... | 08/24/1976 |