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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 |
| 7025427 | Wheel arrangement A wheel arrangement is provided which has reinforcing rings adjacent inboard and outboard tire bead seats. The outboard reinforcement ring has a radial width which is substantially greater than the radial width of the inboard reinforcement ring. ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 5673482 | Method of banding vehicle hub This invention is directed to the repair of cast composite vehicle wheel hubs used specifically on trucks. Such hubs typically have a plurality of spokes extending from a boss with webs extending between the spokes. The hubs are cast of composite metal al... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5135288 | Method and device for reinforcing a solid tire The invention provides a method of reinforcing a solid tire mounted upon a cylindrical hub such as, for example, a solid rubber fork lift truck tire. Tires have a solid flexible outer layer bonded to an inner cylindrical metal band. The hub is press fit w... | 08/04/1992 |
| 4425004 | Banded vehicle hub Prior art truck hub has central boss with central axis, a plurality of spokes extending from the boss, and webs extending between the spokes. End faces of spokes commonly crack and by using method of repair the hub can be salvaged by removing from outer e... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4345795 | Wire wheel with disc brake clearance A wire wheel for fitting to a vehicle having a brake disc and a brake caliper extending around a portion of the edge of the disc, comprising a circular rim (10), a hubshell (15) having an inner mounting end and a smaller outer end and having an outer diam... | 08/24/1982 |
| 4315360 | Truck hub and method of banding same Prior art truck hub has central boss with central axis, a plurality of spokes extending from the boss, and webs extending between the spokes. End faces of spokes commonly crack and by using method of invention the hub can be salvaged by removing from oute... | 02/16/1982 |
| 4181364 | Strengthening means for decorative automotive wheel centers The invention is applicable to automotive wheels which comprise a rim and a center, where the center comprises a "knuckle" or bent over portion, and comprises various forms of strengthening members on the rear side of the knuckle.... | 01/01/1980 |
| 4056285 | Collapsible tire wheel A collapsible wheel rim structure adapted to support an inflated tire including a rim formed from pivotally mounted rim sections, and an internal plate support for the rim which fits into an internal track on the rim. The disc is formed from sections slid... | 11/01/1977 |
