...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 |
| 8082762 | Wearable article with band portion adapted to include textile-based electrodes and method of making such article A circular knit tubing adapted for making a wearable article has a first knitted single layer tubular portion and a second knitted single layer tubular portion separated by a junction portion. The second tubular portion is folded over the first tubular portion at a ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 6272888 | Clothes for small children including baby and infant Clothes which are used for small children including babies and infants are formed of elastic knitted fabric having thread knitted by a knitting machine. The thread of a belly part of the clothes, a crotchpart thereof, sidepart thereof and sleeve part ther... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6263707 | Opaque heat-moldable circular knit support fabrics having very high spandex content A fabric and method to support garments comprising opaque heat-moldable circular knit fabrics having relatively high amounts of spandex material as well as sufficient amounts of other fibers to simultaneously provide maximum support and maximum comfort to... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6070438 | Bound knitted fabric Each stitch of the last course of a front knitted fabric of a tubular knitted fabric is overlapped with a stitch, one stitch interior, of an immediately preceding course of the front knitted fabric. Each stitch of the last course of a back knitted fabric ... | 06/06/2000 |
| 5935116 | Garment for fixing a urine bag and a method for manufacturing such garment A garment (1) is disclosed for fixing a urine bag (2) on the leg (3) of a user. The garment includes a tubular part (6) having elastic bands (9, 10) at its ends, said bands fitting tightly around the leg (3) of the user. The tubular part is provided with ... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5931023 | Process and apparatus for knitting fabric with non-elastic yarn and bare elastomeric yarn and sweater knit fabric construction A sweater knit fabric containing hard yarn plaited together with bare elastomeric yarn is provided. The elastomeric yarn has substantially uniform draft along each course in the fabric. The fabric is made by a process in which the bare elastomeric yarn is... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5517832 | Panty brief with wide leg openings A panty brief is made by flat knitting a front piece (1) and a back piece (1'), leg openings (8,9) being formed at a marginal edge zone (6) at the bottom of the panty brief. The marginal bottom edge zones (6) are partially made of soluble yarn (8) for for... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5377507 | Method for making joined fabric A method for producing a flat knitted fabric, which may include first and second fabrics joined together with their respective wale directions perpendicular to one another, using a flat knitting machine. In accordance with one embodiment of the method, en... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5214941 | Process for producing a fully fashioned flat fabric for a garment equipped with sleeves In the process for producing a fully fashioned flat fabric for a garment equipped with sleeves, first one of two body part, for example front parts (10), and additionally the two sleeves (11, 12) are knitted with separate yarn guides (A, B, C) to the comp... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5131100 | Athletic compression shorts A relatively wide elastic waistband is provided to encircle the waist of the wearer and has elastic stretchability primarily in the longitudinal direction. A pair of tubular legs is provided with upper ends connected to the waistband. The upper end portio... | 07/21/1992 |
| 3956908 | Knitting method A knitted sleeved garment is made from a blank comprising sleeves and body joined together on the knitting machine by sleeve and body shoulder portions knitted integral with one another and formed with wales of different lengths by taking successive needl... | 05/18/1976 |