...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 |
| 7328532 | Method and a kit for shaping a portion of a woody plant into a desired form A method of shaping a portion of a woody plant into a desired form is provided. The method is effected by providing a root of a woody plant, shaping the root into the desired form and culturing the root under conditions suitable for secondary thickening of the root.... | 02/12/2008 |
| 6964126 | Tree stabilizing assembly An assembly includes a plurality of elongated and rectilinear support posts having opposed end portions. The assembly further includes a plurality of U-shaped fastening members removably positional through a primary support member. The primary support member is prov... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6931798 | Modular protection device for underpinning A modular protection device for underpinning for protecting underpinning from lawn care equipment includes an elongated trough having a first end and a second end. The first and second ends are open. The elongated trough includes a bottom wall, a front wall and a ba... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6922953 | Diamond post stabilizer A device for stabilizing a plurality of spaced posts comprising an outer frame member; a plurality of bracket assemblies mounted to the outer frame member at a first set of spaced locations thereon to receive the posts; and a plurality of bracing members extending b... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6726184 | Fence made of foaming agent A fence made of foaming agent is disclosed. A bottom of the fence has at least one inserting portion, and the inserting portion is inserted to a seat. The seat is inserted to an inserting hole for being inserted by the inserting portion. ... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6523300 | Slope guard A slope guard device having one or more panels formed of impervious material, interlocking along their periphery to form a rigid annular unit capable of encircling a planted area on a slope. The panels define an inner side adjacent to roots, and an outer ... | 02/25/2003 |
| 5134803 | Method of cultivating cut flower of rose The invention relates to cultivation of a rose plant in a greenhouse and the like which is capable of growing a rose so that an object twig with a flower can be cut in about a waist-high position, and picking cut flowers with long stems and of a high qual... | 08/04/1992 |
| 4984619 | Free standing baby gate A free-standing, self-supporting baby gate consisting of: a gateframe composed of two posts adapted to rest on opposite ends of a top stair and connected by a horizontal beam at the level of the horizontal plane of the top of the stairway; a flat, rigid m... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4872647 | Decorative attachment for a chain link fence An assembly of a hedge-like element and a chain link fence is formed of a multitude of densely packed, relatively stiff leaf-like filaments are carried in elongated support to extend therefrom in a planar brush-like array. When a plurality of the camoufla... | 10/10/1989 |