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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 |
| 7887383 | Buyoant infant safety seat A safety seat for a child for use proximate a body of water is disclosed. The safety seat may be fixed with a vehicle, such as a boat, or used independently on a ground surface. A seat is adapted to hold the child in a seated position therein. A base engagement is f... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7083487 | Emergency flotation and recovery device An emergency rescue and recovery device includes a portable bundle with an inflatable bladder in a storage position. In one example, the inflatable bladder has a substantially toroid geometry when inflated. The portable bundle further includes a gas canister in comm... | 08/01/2006 |
| 6394867 | Emergency self-inflating flotation device A vehicle seat comprising a seating substrate, an outer seat covering, and a housing containing an integrated self-inflating floatation device. The self-inflating flotation device includes one or more inflatable flotation bladders and an inflator that is ... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6036563 | Chair floatation device A new chair floatation device for permitting a person, such as a child, to float comfortably in a body of water. The inventive device includes a hollow body member with a back wall portion forming a backrest, a seat portion, and a front wall portion. A pa... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5970651 | Multi-purpose fishing bucket apparatus A multi-purpose fishing bucket having a bucket member and a cover-seat member in which the cover-seat member includes a floatable ring, a detachably-engaged separate middle portion, and a line secured to the ring and to the middle portion such that, detac... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5514020 | Buoyant child safety seat for boats A child- or infant-sized safety seat is disclosed with relatively horizontal seat and relatively vertical back support elements designed with flotation effecting materials sufficient to keep said child or infant at the water's surface and with critically ... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5476404 | Inflatable recreational inner tube toy An inflatable recreational inner tube toy comprising a seat further including a toroid-shaped inflatable primary tube having a bottom surface, a top surface, an inner periphery defining a hollow interior, an outer periphery, a plurality of straps extended... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5439405 | Combined tote bag, semi-submergible floating chair/recliner and beach chair/pad A combination tote bag, floating chair/recliner and beach chair/pad (10) comprised of buoyant cushioned sections, all of which are covered with material (53) and are fastened together with zippers in a number of different ways for a variety of purposes. A... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5335882 | Combination seat cushion and life vest particularly adapted to an aircraft chair A combination seat cushion and life vest particularly adapted for use as an aircraft chair includes a generally rectangular buoyant main rear panel and a buoyant segmented front panel hingedly joined to the rear panel in substantially covering relationshi... | 08/09/1994 |
| 4822309 | Combined life preserver cushion and tote bag The invention comprises generally square buoyant cushions. A separate fabric skirt is attached to each side of each cushion. Each skirt has fastening means so the skirts on one cushion can be fastened to the skirts on another cushion. If the cushions are ... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4727821 | Detachable pod and kayak A kayak (10) is an elongated hull (12) having a hull interior (20) and an upper hull portion in which a cockpit (18) is formed for accomodating a boater in a seated position. A perimeter hull flange (22) is formed in the upper hull portion of the kayak de... | 03/01/1988 |
| 4619623 | Life-jacket assembly The present invention relates to a life-jacket assembly primarily intended for aircraft passengers, including a buoyant body (7) furnishing at least the principal part of the buoyancy, and straps or the like adapted to retain the life-jacket assembly in p... | 10/28/1986 |
| 4295680 | Utility bucket seat A portable bucket seat is provided said seat being lightweight and sized so that it fits the open end of a standard bucket of the type that are commonly used by fisherman. The bucket seat is buoyant and is used for a cover for said bucket in order to keep... | 10/20/1981 |
| 4287250 | Elastomeric cushioning devices for products and objects Devices for packaging and/or cushioning products and objects, the devices including permeable elastomeric sheets sealed together at predetermined locations to form separate and discrete chambers, or intercommunicating chambers, inflated initially with a g... | 09/01/1981 |
