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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 |
| 7546694 | Combination drawing/measuring pen A combination drawing/measuring pen constructed of an elongated, hollow body portion having a cavity therein, an aperture at a front end and an on/off switch at a rear end; a pen having a roller ball tip in the cavity operatively moving up and down by a first button... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7414235 | Handheld locating device with a sensor for detecting motion parameters A handheld device. In particular a locating device, includes a housing (10), which is movable with a handle unit (12) over a surface of an item being examined and which has a sensor unit (16) for picking up a first motion parameter. At least one... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7310882 | Measuring device Measuring device for measuring the path and/or speed of a moving object in relation to a structural component, with a measuring wheel (20) and with a rotary encoder (10), such that the measuring wheel (20) is coupled to the encoder shaft (16 | 12/25/2007 |
| 7238895 | Multi-purpose digital scale for travelers A portable scale that allows travelers to calculate the weight of their luggage and compare the weight against weight limits that are imposed by common carriers. The scale includes circuitry for calculating weight and a memory for storing weight limits. Weight and o... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7131216 | Distance measuring apparatus A distance measuring apparatus having a frame and a wheel rotatable relative to the frame around a first axis. The wheel has a peripheral surface that can be rolled against a surface upon which a distance measurement is to be taken. The distance measuring apparatus ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7089679 | Measuring apparatus and method therefor An apparatus for measuring linear distances comprising a wheel to be rolled along a surface to be measured, wherein the wheel comprises a plurality of incremental line markers to facilitate measurement of selected intervals, and wherein the wheel is maintained withi... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7086162 | Method and apparatus for distance measurement A device for measuring physical characteristics includes a beam generator component generating first and second beams at two points. The device further includes a protractor that measures the angle between the beams. The device measures the distances to the two poin... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7075459 | Vehicle speed sensor for navigation system A vehicle navigation system includes a vehicle displacement sensor comprising a wireless transmitter generating a signal indicating rotational displacement of a vehicle component. A complementary wireless transmitter receives the signal from the transmitter. A compu... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7036241 | Rolling electronic length measuring device An electronic measuring device is disclosed which includes a pair of wheels connected to an axle that passes through a drive gear. The drive gear is enmeshed to a second gear which, in turn, is coaxially connected to an encoder disk. The encoder disk has spaced-apar... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6957499 | Depthometer A depthometer for measuring a length of an elongate line. A main wheel is mounted upon a main body component and is in communication with a registering mechanism. Line guides are mounted upon a lower body component. An inner handle connected to the main body compone... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6886269 | Locating device A positioning device includes a housing (10) and a display unit (12), in particular a display for graphic representation of measurement information, which display is movable for locating purposes using a handle unit (14) over a surface of an art... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6775914 | Surface profiling apparatus A surface profiler comprises at least one mass resiliently supported in relation to the frame of the profiler to exert a downward force opposing upward movement of the frame when the wheels pass over an obstacle. Two such masses may be constrained for substantially ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6708478 | Device and procedure for regulating the bale length of a square baler The invention pertains to a device and procedure to regulate the bale length in a square baler. Sensors determine both the forward and backward movement of the crop bundle and transfer these measurements to an evaluation electronic. The evaluation electronic adds th... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6637278 | Measuring system for determining the surface line of a body A measuring system has a freely movable measuring instrument and a computer for processing the measured data. Two measuring devices are in the measuring instrument, each with two acceleration sensors. Two of the sensor each in a common plane and the two m... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6415518 | Apparatus for laying out a building foundation An apparatus for laying out a building foundation is provided. The apparatus according to the present invention includes a first member for engaging a wire and a second member mounted to the first member and movable between a range of positions. The secon... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6199292 | Electromechanical dimensioning device An electromechanical dimensioning device measures dimensional attributes of an object and transmits the dimensional attributes from the dimensioning device to a remote receiving device. The dimensioning device converts rotational motion of a measuring whe... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6035542 | Surface profiling apparatus and method A surface profiler 10 has a forward support wheel 20, an intermediate support wheel 21 and a rearward support wheel 22 for travelling along a surface, the profile of which is to be measured. The wheels 20, 21, 22 are spaced apart at predetermined distance... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5806398 | Method and apparatus for determing the number of sheets in a stack A method and apparatus are disclosed for determining the quantity of sheets of material in a stack containing an unknown quantity. The method can be practiced with existing machines which perform various operations on the sheets of material while they are... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5477622 | Electronic hand-held measuring device for obtaining the dimensional weight of a shipment of freight A hand-held measuring device for measure the dimensional weight of the boxes in a shipment of freight includes a gun shaped housing having a tracing wheel located at a front end of the elongated portion of the housing. A handle is located at the back end ... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5365674 | Device for measuring the displacement of a swivel of a drilling mast A device for measuring the movement of a drill pipe string, the end of which is held during drilling by an attachment assembly (12) movably along at least one guide rail (16), comprises a sensor assembly (38) mounted on the attachment assembly with a roll... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5297346 | Device for measuring distance and determining position from a reference point, and method of using same An apparatus for determining and indicating the location of an end portion of a probe inserted into an external body. As the probe moves it rotates a measuring wheel to indicate linear translation, and optionally also moves another measuring wheel to indi... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5174038 | Method and apparatus for profiling terrain A terrain profiling apparatus for quick and inexpensive profiling of relatively large areas of ground. A prime mover pulls a sled across a terrain to be profiled. A gyroscope on the sled indicates slope and a measuring device records distances moved. Slop... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5107598 | Surface profiler A surface profiling apparatus comprises a vehicle with a body having ground engaging wheels for supporting the body. An arm is pivotally mounted on the body at one end of the arm and a sensing wheel is rotatably connected to the arm at the other end there... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5099775 | Device for measuring the passage of a predetermined length of cloth at right angles to the needle of a sewing machine A device for measuring the passage of a predetermined length of cloth at right angles to the needle of a sewing machine comprises a frame carrying an arm mounted about a shaft and urged resiliently towards the cloth by a spring adapted to put a pinion in ... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5035064 | Linear measuring devices A measuring instrument comprises a portable case (45) housing a drum (11) on which is wound a flexible mesuring line or tape (10) which runs over a rotary capstan (15) provided with teeth (16) engaged by a sensor (24) acting as a pulse generator to an ele... | 07/30/1991 |
| 5003704 | Distance measuring device and method for use with vehicles A means is provided for measuring distance travelled by a vehicle having a wheel coupled to a vehicle axle disposed within a vehicle axle housing, with the wheel haivng at least one nonmagnetized metal region which rotates with the wheel defining an orbit... | 04/02/1991 |
| 4858329 | A surveying and mapping apparatus for indicating the level differences of the ground travelled in relation to the distance travelled A surveying and mapping implement indicates the level differences of the ground over which it travels, in relation to the distance travelled. It comprises a carriage consisting of a swivelling front wheel, two center wheels attached to the outside of a U-... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4788773 | Apparatus for measuring lateral inclination of a roadway with error compensation An apparatus for measuring the lateral inclination of a supporting surface comprises a lateral inclination indicator (5) arranged on a vehicle (1). A second indicator (6) delivers information corresponding to the velocity of the vehicle. There are means (... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4680864 | Drawing guide A first body part having a rubber rim wheel and a second body part having a rubber rim wheel are interconnected by a vertical hinge. The first body part has a pencil holder between its wheel and the hinge and the wheels have distance measurement scales. A... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4628613 | Bend detector for a pipeline pig A bend detector for use on a pipeline pig assembly comprising a front pig element and a rear pig element pivotally connected to the front pig element by the bend detector; the front pig element having a longitudinally disposed housing with a forward drive... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4233742 | Apparatus for area measurement of elongated strips Apparatus for area measurement of elongated strips of different widths is described, which strips may be film to be treated, the strip to be measured preferably being initially delivered between driven rolls carried on parallel shafts, the strip passing o... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4231257 | Slope sensor for a vehicle First and second sample-hold circuits sample and hold the atmospheric pressure alternately every time when a vehicle travels a predetermined distance. A signal representing a difference between the holding values of the first and second sample-hold circui... | 11/04/1980 |
| 4156970 | Apparatus for area measurement of elongated strips Apparatus for area measurement of elongated strips of different widths is described, which strips may be film to be treated, the strips to be measured being delivered manually or driven between rolls carried on parallel shafts, the number of rolls on one ... | 06/05/1979 |
| 4149318 | Apparatus for measuring the square footage output of diazo printing machines and the like Most Diazo printers and other such copy machines have an automatic feed capability provided by a drive roller for receiving light-sensitive paper from copy paper rolls of varying widths and feeding the paper into the machine. To provide a square footage c... | 04/17/1979 |
| 4053985 | Mechanical protractor A device for measuring and indicating the angle between two lines includes a housing having two wheels rotatably mounted therein. The wheels are spaced from each other at a distance predeterminedly related to the radii of the wheels. In one embodiment, a ... | 10/18/1977 |
| 3999298 | Watch with distance measure A measuring instrument for rotatively measuring point to point distances in operative combination with a watch is provided. The measuring instrument comprises a wheel rotatably connected to the watch and having a discrete, continuous, rotative edge which ... | 12/28/1976 |
