...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 |
| 8006591 | Adjustable wrench A adjustable wrench comprises a body used to operate the adjustable wrench including a fixed jaw extending outward therefrom and having a holder mounted on a top end thereof, including an arcuate recess fixed on a middle portion of a front side thereof; a movable ja... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7114416 | Rotatively operating tool for rotatively operated member having a pair of engaging surfaces In a rotatively operating tool, a lever (5) having a head (4) at its tip end is turnably connected to a handle (6) provided at its tip end with a lower jaw (12). The head (4) is provided with an upper jaw (7) brought into en... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7024745 | Fan clutch holding tool A holding tool is adapted to be used in removing and replacing a fan clutch assembly threadably attached and detached relative to a shaft of a hub connected to a pulley on an internal combustion engine of a vehicle by a series of fasteners. The holding tool includes... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6971288 | Automatically adjusting self-tightening wrench A self-adjusting wrench having a handle and a jaw member rotationally attached thereto. A smoothly curved handle face opposes a planar face on the jaw member which adjusts for distance from the curved handle face by following a generally circular path around a pinne... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6305251 | Universal wrench A universal wrench includes a handle that is made of flat parts that are connected by pins and are provided with a coating. The flat parts have clamping parts on their ends and have offsets which form a support slot for a clamping body. The clamping body ... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6026714 | Adjustable wrench An adjustable wrench is composed of a handle and a clamping member fastened pivotally with the handle and provided with two clamping surfaces forming therebetween an angle of 120 degrees. The clamping member is capable of turning on a pivoting point which... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5247715 | Multiple use spanner tool An adjustable spanner wrench and combination tool for use by firefighters provided. An elongate handle has first and second ends between which a variety of firefighter's tools are defined. A first jaw portion is affixed on one end thereof to one end of t... | 09/28/1993 |
| 4893528 | Adjustable spanner An adjustable spanner includes a handle having a mounting end having a pressure edge and a thinned portion, a movable piece having a multi-angular surface capable of cooperating with the pressure edge to grip therebetween a tubular article and an engaging... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4753140 | Wrench A wrench comprises a lower jaw member which has a handle portion, and is provided with a lower grip teeth portion formed in its front end surface adjacent to which a longitudinal guide hole is formed therein; an upper jaw member which has a substantially ... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4729781 | 3,6-dichloro-2-methoxybenzohydroxamic acid derivatives and use as herbicidal agents Disclosed are herbicidal compounds of the general formula I: ##STR1## wherein A is O-alkylene of 1 to 5 carbon atoms, O-alkenylene of 3 to 6 carbon atoms in which the unsaturation is non-adjacent the oxygen atom thereof or NH-alkylene in which the al... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4483220 | Adjustable spanner wrench This invention relates to an adjustable spanner wrench for rotating a cylindrical rod guide cap having a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart openings. The adjustable spanner wrench includes an elongated handle with a first and a second arm member ... | 11/20/1984 |
| 4151764 | Pipe wrench locking device On a conventional pipe wrench, an L-shaped lever arm has the short bisected arm segment cooperatively disposed over and secured by a fixed pivot to a linear extention of the threaded section of the adjustable pipe jaw. A free pivot disposed at the terminu... | 05/01/1979 |