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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 |
| 7364102 | Pill crusher with gear rack A pill crusher having a rack and pinion advancing a platen. Pill crushers are used to crush pills into powder for various medicinal reasons, such as ease of mixing or dosing. A rack on a slide way is linearly advanced by rotational movement of a pinion on a handle. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7302887 | Kitchen hand tool A kitchen hand tool for crushing, slicing, or juicing food products. The tool is operated by closing two handles that rotate a drive gear that engages the ratcheting tooth portion of a crush paddle resulting in the movement of the crush paddle toward a basket, crush... | 12/04/2007 |
| 6928739 | Tool force transmitting method and apparatus A method and apparatus for transmitting a force around a corner is provided. The apparatus includes a force transmitter comprising a first and second rounded end, a connecting member connecting the first and second rounded ends having a smaller diameter than the fir... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6279232 | Apparatus for removing eggshell The present invention relates to an apparatus for removing an eggshell, which provides a body and handle for holding an egg softly by linkage between them, a removing plate for breaking the eggshell with the handle, an operating device for expanding the r... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6041697 | Apparatus for controlled cracking of nut-like fruits and the like An apparatus for the controlled fracture of the outer hull of a nut-like fruit wherein a reciprocable piston is moved within a frame and is supported and guided by arms that interfit with the piston to guide it or non-rotating movement into and out of eng... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6041504 | Device to progressively break the woody shell, particularly of fruits of the drupe type A device for progressively breaking the woody shell on fruits of the drupe type includes a double handle, of which a first handle is static and second handle is dynamic. The first handle includes a spoon-shaped seat to hold the fruit whose shell is to be ... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5596807 | Hand tool and method for use thereof A hand tool for compressing objects has first and second opposing pivotally connected members for receiving an object and an extension of the first pivotal member permitting striking of the extension to effect sudden and rapid compression of the object. T... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5361688 | Combination nut cracker and nibbler A combination nut cracker and nibbler comprised of an upper moveable jaw, a lower fixed jaw, a front pivot arm secured to the lower fixed jaw, a lever arm secured to the front pivot arm and the upper moveable jaw, a back arm secured to the upper moveable ... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5351402 | Hard nut kernel extractor A hand operated, hard nut kernel extractor device comprising: scissor action leverage handles, chipper blade, concave constructed blade seat with a spoon shaped extension to serve as a nut support and blade guard for safety; used to chip the hard shell of... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5169076 | Crushing tool A crusher comprises a housing defining a crushing chamber for restraining an object to be crushed and a plunger for applying force on the object to be crushed when the plunger is actuated by a handle. The handle is mounted on the housing for pivotal movem... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5012580 | Macadamia nutcracker employing sliding force arm driven by lever with fixed end and floating intermediate pivots A nutcracker for macadamia or other hard nuts (46) comprises an elongated slide bar (21) having an anvil jaw (43) attached to a working end thereof, a parallel elongated arm (35) having a mating jaw (33) attached to a working end thereof, and a hand lever... | 05/07/1991 |
| 4843715 | Lever actuated nutcracker A nutcracking apparatus having a base and a member attached at the bottom thereof to the front and top portions of the base and extending upwardly therefrom. A first nut contacting blade is attached to the one side of the member. An elongated plunger has ... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4641430 | Nut splitter A nut splitter is shown which includes a base for supporting the splitter upon a planar surface. A jaw having a cutting wheel rotatably mounted thereon is pivotally mounted on the base and is movable between an open position allowing placement of a nut on... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4598475 | Nutcracker with automatic adjustment means A nutcracker (10) is disclosed which is characterized by an automatic adjustment to differing-sized nuts during the cracking motion. Nutcracker (10) includes a base (11), an upright support (12) carried by base (11) and a slide bar (16) mounted for limite... | 07/08/1986 |
| 4554737 | Nutcracker A nutcracker having two lever arms having first ends, a hinge pin connecting the two lever arms to each other, a press cup having an open top and substantially plane press surfaces, and press jaws, each of which is disposed at the first ends of the two le... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4395823 | Shell fish opener The invention is concerned with a device for opening a shell fish of the type having two shell halves normally held closed against each other by a muscle. The device of the invention comprises means for supporting the shell fish with one shell half restin... | 08/02/1983 |
| 4255855 | Nutcracker A nutcracker which includes a plunger slidable in a stationary sleeve, so that an adjustable end of the plunger is exerted against a nut abutted against a rigid anvil, so as to break open the nut shell, a pivotable handle providing a leverage force agains... | 03/17/1981 |
| 4087910 | Nutcracker device A hand-operated device, in the form of a gun, shatters nut shells and the like. The gun has an inertia weight and a limited movement hammer bolt between which a nut shell is inserted and held in place by pressure applied on a trigger against a pistol grip... | 05/09/1978 |
