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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 |
| 6688876 | Liquid-fuel combustion system A process for combustion with the aid of a liquid fuel and a gaseous oxidizer containing from 20% to 100% volume of oxygen, in which the fuel is injected with the aid of an injector. The injector, which has a height "d", is placed inside a glory hole. The... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6448539 | Electric heating element and method for its production On the one hand is provided an electric heating element (15, 31) consisting of a semiconducting ceramic (28, 32) as well as a method for its production. The semiconducting ceramic material may be porous or foamed to thus contain pores (29, 34) open outwar... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6174160 | Staged prevaporizer-premixer Method and apparatus to prevaporize and premix liquid and/or gaseous fuels with air in two stages at two different temperatures prior to combustion. The invention is directed to the entry of a finely atomized liquid fuel, such as No. 2 diesel, into an inl... | 01/16/2001 |
| 5928605 | Device for dispensing a volatile substance A device for dispensing a volatile substance includes a gas-fueled, portable heat source. The device includes a catalyst support structure to flamelessly combust liquid or gaseous fuel and thereby provide a lower temperature heat source than a heat source... | 07/27/1999 |
| 4698014 | Method and apparatus for the low-wear atomization of liquid highly viscous and/or suspended fuel intended for combustion or gasification in burner flames A method and apparatus for the combustion or gasification of highly viscous nd/or suspended fuel in a burner flame. The fuel is introduced, in a nozzle, and in the form of a continuous, thin, annular layer, into a stream of atomizing medium, with the aid o... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4365952 | Liquid gas burner A liquid fuel burner for burning liquid fuel in the form of a gaseous mixture with air. The liquid fuel burner has a porous member provided at least with a fuel receiving section for receiving the liquid fuel supplied to the burner and a fuel evaporation ... | 12/28/1982 |
| 4259058 | Burner apparatus using vaporized fuel A burner apparatus is specially designed for vaporized fuels such as alcohol vapor for use by campers, aboard small boats, in vans, and the like. Extremely efficient combustion is achieved by an annular air/fuel mixer plate with a plurality of circular op... | 03/31/1981 |
| 4243380 | Method and device for distributing liquid fuel to a fluidized bed Liquid fuel is distributed in a fluidized bed of refractory particles through the gas constriction plate of a fluidized bed incinerator. The fuel is supplied from a distribution system of circulation pipes situated well below the constriction plate and pa... | 01/06/1981 |
| 4226582 | Process and apparatus for the instantaneous combustion of diafanous liquid petroleum, diesel or similar fuels A process and apparatus for the production of heat, equivalent in clarity and cleanliness to that of propane, butane or natural gas, but at a lower cost and without the problems or dangers of storage nor risks of fire or explosion during handling, by mean... | 10/07/1980 |
