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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 |
| 7273158 | Golf ball dispensing and retrieving system A golf ball dispensing and retrieving system for efficiently assisting a golfer in practicing putting. The golf ball dispensing and retrieving system includes an elongated tube having a lower opening, a clamp extending from a side of the tube for removably attaching... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7232025 | Electromagnetic conveyor stop A conveyor stop assembly for stopping objects traveling along a conveying path includes a magnetically attractable stop member pivotally mounted for movement out of the conveying path when contacted by an object traveling along the conveying path and an electromagne... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7207464 | Effervescent tablet dispenser The effervescent tablet dispenser may be assembled onto the open end of a container tube (2). It consists of an annular lower part (3) which may be assembled onto the open end of a container tube (2). For this there is a lid (4) for closi... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7189167 | Game apparatus having ball drop and pick-up mechanism A game apparatus is able to drop the balls one by one on the ground and to pick-up the balls on the ground one by one. The game apparatus includes a ball guide to store a plurality of balls to be movable by their own weight, an upper support provided at an upper por... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7175045 | Article-dispensing or vending machine The present invention provides an article-dispensing machine or a vending machine, which includes a main body, one or more tracks for holding articles, one or more selection elements for selecting at least one article and one or more dispenser-controlling assemblies... | 02/13/2007 |
| 6968975 | Selectively cascadeable storage management apparatus, method, and system A selectively cascadeable storage unit allows a variable number of containers to be stored and dispensed in a first-in, first-out manner. The storage unit includes a receiving area, a storage track, a dispensing area, and a selectively engageable stop. The storage t... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6845880 | Dispensing container for symmetrical articles A container for holding and dispensing articles such as beverage cans and bottles wherein a first set of said articles are laid horizontally in a row over a slanted floor, and are retained therein by a vertically movable plate resting upon said row. A barrier projec... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6488593 | Game apparatus having a spherical object drop mechanism A spherical object drop mechanism for a game apparatus has a mechanism allowing to drop spherical objects one by one on the desired position on the ground. The spherical object drop mechanism includes a ball guide to store a plurality of spherical objects... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6440007 | Game apparatus having a spherical object drop mechanism A game apparatus has a mechanism allowing to drop spherical objects one by one on the desired positions on the ground. The spherical object drop mechanism includes a housing for storing a plurality of spherical objects to allow vertical movements of the s... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6357624 | Lid dispenser A lid dispenser for storing and dispensing plastic drink lids. The dispenser has an elongated body within which the lids are stacked upside down and a dispensing slot in a sidewall facing a user. A gravity biased finger rides in a vertical trackway in a s... | 03/19/2002 |
| 5901878 | Ball can vending machine A ball can vending machine comprises a cylindrical storage drum including a housing section sized to hold a plurality of ball cans with the longitudinal axes of the cans disposed parallel to the cylindrical axis of the housing section. The housing section... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5894942 | Gravity feed flow-rack apparatus A gravity-feed flow rack apparatus for multiple articles with rack modules arranged vertically. The rack apparatus include main module, front and rear auxiliary modules having article conveyance skid rails, insert joint for joining said modules, tiltable ... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5582325 | Portable golf ball dispenser Distributor of the type comprising ball storing means and an articulated arm supplying a ball to the striking area. According to the invention, the ball storage means consists of a prismatic housing including, adjacent to each of its ends, supporting devi... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5560515 | Cigarette weight control Apparatus for regularly weighing groups of cigarettes comprises a suction drum arrangement (4,6) for picking up a predetermined number of cigarettes from a multi-layer flow of cigarettes (2) on a conveyor (3) and for feeding the cigarettes as a row (25) o... | 10/01/1996 |
| 4511059 | Vending machine with side mounted escrows A vending or dispensing machine is operable in triple depth, double depth, and single depth operating modes. A cradle which is rotatable through 360° is used to separate cylindrical articles from a number of tandem nonstaggered vertical columns. The rota... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4511060 | Antitheft side mounted escrows for vending machine A vending or dispensing machine is operable in triple depth, double depth, and single depth operating modes. A cradle which is rotatable through 360° is used to separate cylindrical articles from a number of tandem nonstaggered vertical columns. The rota... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4289254 | Article dispenser with cam actuated gate Disclosed herein is a can dispensing mechanism for releasing containers from a row of containers stored in an automatic vending machine. A slide driven by a motor or solenoid operates a can control gate and a row gate which are in the form of L-shaped lev... | 09/15/1981 |
| 4217991 | Device for storing and readying of magnetic tape cassettes Disclosed is an article storing and dispensing device adapted for storing and readying magnetic tape cassettes so that they can be automatically, individually dispensed from the device. The device comprises a supporting frame structure including two oppos... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4212381 | Anti-runout device and conveyor apparatus An anti-runout device adapted to be mounted below the running surface or pass line of an inclined lane, gravity feed package conveyor and upstream from a package release mechanism at the discharge end of the conveyor is described. The device acts as a bra... | 07/15/1980 |
| 4037613 | Washer for bearing races A bearing washing machine is provided having cleaning stages through which disassembled bearing races are continuously processed. The machine includes a pair of parallel support tracks selectively spaced from one another which are disposed at an angle to ... | 07/26/1977 |
| 4004701 | Handling and dispensing system and apparatus for cylindrical objects A dispensing system apparatus for storing and dispensing cylindrical objects such as rolls of floor covering has a sloped rack on which the rolls are supported and further contains serially arranged dispensing and retaining blades for dispensing a roll ne... | 01/25/1977 |
| 3991907 | Solid merchandise dispensing system for mechanical or electrical control A dispensing and control system, adaptable to coin operated vending machines, for selective operation of one of the dispensers acting as a means for releasing and dropping a selected merchandise to a delivery location using a mechanical or electrical cont... | 11/16/1976 |
| 3970216 | Coin controlled vending apparatus Coin controlled article vending apparatus which features a hydraulic system to release a selected article from stacked horizontal position for dispensing.... | 07/20/1976 |
| 3970180 | Retractable stop A solenoid actuated retractable stop including a pivoted arm selectively operable to block or pass articles moving along the surface of a roller conveyor characterized by a positive stop linkage adapted to resist impact engagement and cumulative loading o... | 07/20/1976 |
