...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 |
| 5321858 | Closure assembly for a pit commode An automatic closure assembly for use with an outhouse or pit commode is disclosed which includes a frame having open upper and lower ends attached to the underside of a bench so as to frame an opening therein over which a toilet seat is hingably mounted ... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5088134 | Portable non-flushing toilet A portable toilet device has a disposable waste receiving bag situated therein. The device is operable from an open or in-use position to a closed or non-use position which causes rotation of the waste receiving bag to temporarily close or seal the bag.... | 02/18/1992 |
| 4054958 | Toilet of compost type Compost toilet having in the waste receptacle thereof a gate in the form of two hinged companion wings swingable into closed and open positions in and out of the path, respectively, of urine passed into the receptacle by a user of the toilet in standing p... | 10/25/1977 |