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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 |
| 6041492 | Spoke inserting apparatus A spoke inserting apparatus for inserting spokes into a hub of a wheel of a bicycle. The operation for adjusting a position, a direction and the like of driving apparatuses, photo-sensors and spoke entanglement preventive apparatuses constituting the spok... | 03/28/2000 |
| 4799304 | Method for assembling a wheel for a bicycle A method for automatically assembling a wheel for a bicycle comprising: aligning spokes mounted on a hub; leasing the aligned spokes to form an assembly; transferring the assembly of hub and leased spokes to a device for loosely tightening said leased spokes; loose... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4257651 | Pneumatic wheel and method of making same An all-welded wire spoke wheel for a pneumatic tire includes a pneumatic tire rim formed with a relatively wide groove or depression in its inner face which extends all around the rim. An elongated metal strap is formed having a length, width and thicknes... | 03/24/1981 |
| 3958315 | Method of tightening spokes of wire wheels A method of tightening spokes of spoke-type wheels in which spokes are divided into eight groups and in which four sets of two groups each are tightened in sequence, groups of a set being oppositely positioned.... | 05/25/1976 |
