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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 |
| 7184364 | Armored seabed laid seismic cable and method and apparatus for manufacturing same A method for wrapping continuous strands of steel wire about a seismic cable including interconnected sensor sections and conductor sections where a cross sectional diameter of the sensor section is at least four times that of the conductor section. Two layers of ar... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7175341 | Wrist-portable apparatus To provide a wrist-portable equipment that may prevent malfunction of an internal rotational ring. There is provided a wrist-portable equipment including: a case, an internal rotational ring to be used as a display member for rotating independently and separately fr... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7025494 | Wrist-portable apparatus A wrist-portable apparatus has a case housing a rotational display member and an operational shaft for undergoing rotational movement and sliding movement relative to the case so that the operational shaft may be axially displaced between a pushed-in position, in wh... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6947351 | Watch equipped with means for determining a location longitude The invention concerns a watch equipped with means for determining a location longitude and a device for determining the sun's altitude above the horizon. Said watch comprises a mobile element (16) doing one full rotation in 12 hours and bearing a hour hand (... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6923065 | Apparatus for testing aramid fiber elevator cables An apparatus and method for inspecting and calculating the residual strength of an aramid fiber rope driving an elevator to determine when such rope is in need of replacement. The apparatus comprises a transmitter for introducing an acoustic wave that will travel al... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6249485 | Bit serial mechanical adder A mechanical device converts one time base to another without using gears to do so. A mechanical adder adds a constant into an accumulator at regular intervals. The interval is generated by the overflow of the accumulator. In the case where a signal is to... | 06/19/2001 |
| 5519673 | Clock with constellation display A clock is formed by a front frame (11) for forming a clock body, a back frame (35) fixed with the former, a transparent dial plate (17) fixed with the front frame and having scale marks on the periphery for representing month and day, a constellation dis... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5269065 | Compass including means for displaying constellation data A compass wherein positional information regarding a predetermined terrestrial location is stored; present time, corresponding to the terrestrial location whose positional information is stored, is measured and displayed; and constellation data is stored.... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5253225 | Compass watch of the mechanically or electromechanically driven type and bezel specifically intended for such a watch This invention concerns a compass watch as well as a bezel specifically intended to fit out such a watch. The invention comprises at least one time indicating element (4) kinematically driven in rotation by a mechanical or electromechanical horometric mov... | 10/12/1993 |
| 4486077 | Digital meter with uniform illumination and less inadvertent setting A multiple function, multiple digit meter includes a light directing structure (18) for providing uniform illumination to digits (14) of display (12). A block (20) of clear plexiglass has a surface (22) facing the display (12). Edges (24, 26) of the block... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4295212 | Linear acoustic array A linear acoustic array for use in oceanographic work in either a towed or a vertically suspended configuration utilizes a flexible cable in which strands are woven or braided into a tube, the strands of which can be separated sufficiently to insert a hyd... | 10/13/1981 |
