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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 |
| 7243688 | Device for reforming socket contacts An apparatus for reworking contacts of sockets is provided with an elongated member having a first formation tip, and a pair of arms having second formation tips, to respectively impart first and second profiles to first and second surfaces of a contact of a socket.... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7234376 | Holding device for a fastening element A holding device for fastening elements which is securable to screw-driving power tool and includes at least two clamping members (20) which abut a stem (74) of the fastening element in a release position of the clamping members and which are displacea... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7104994 | Heating pen, tack seating device, and tap and surgical implantation methods using same A method, apparatus and system for applying bio-resorbable membranes or plates to bone for internal fixation of bone defects is disclosed. ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 6997086 | Locking screwdriver A locking screwdriver which engages and locks to the head of a screw preventing unseating of the screwdriver from the screw during screw removal and firmly holding and guiding self-tapping screws during their placement. ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6952983 | Power drive-in tool A power drive-in tool (4) for use in a stand-up tool includes a holding device (16) arranged in a front, in a drive-in direction, section of the drive-in tool and in which a fastening element (18) can be automatically received and released, a gu... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6415693 | Sleeve-shaped device to retain screws while these are turned into an object such as a bone by means of a screw driver A device to retain screws during insertion into an object such as a bone by use of a screw-driver. The device comprises comprising a gripping sleeve the free end of which has a radially expandable portion for receiving the screw and the other end of which... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6314845 | Clamp for screwed fastening member Clamp for screwed fastening member, including: a main body formed with an internal axial passage; a rod body connected with the main body; two clamping members each having a bottom clamping end, the clamping members being pivotally disposed on the main bo... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6189422 | Screwdriver A screwdriver for introducing and screwing a screw into the human or animal body and/or for unscrewing and removing a screw from the human or animal body has a handle and a shaft whose front end has a blade that can be brought into engagement with a screw... | 02/20/2001 |
| 5791212 | Fastener holding device A fastener holding device is designed for use with power tools. The device securely engages a fastener, such as a screw, and automatically disengages the fastener when the device is pushed against a work material. The device includes a driving bit assembl... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5355752 | Screwholder for screwdriver A screwholder adapted to be mounted over a screwdriver shank that includes an outwardly flared blade section adjacent a screwdriver tip is disclosed. The screwholder includes a hollow extension tube that mounts over the screwdriver shank. One end of the h... | 10/18/1994 |
| 4759241 | Screw driver In a screw driver with a turning tool placed at the front end of a shank which is torsionally connected with a handle, the turning tool can be reliably prevented from slipping off the head of the screw to be turned by the fact that the turning tool is emb... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4478113 | Tool for aiding in thread connecting a spark plug or other object in place A device is disclosed herein for aiding in properly connecting the threaded segment of one object, for example a spark plug, to a complementary threaded segment of a second object, for example an engine block including a complementary threaded hole. This ... | 10/23/1984 |
| 4363250 | Device for driving screw, pin, rivet or the like A device for driving a screw, pin, rivet or the like into a threaded or drilled hole is disclosed which is adapted to operate a nozzle comprising a pair of nozzle halves to pinch it. When driving a screw by means of the device as a screw driver, a thrust ... | 12/14/1982 |
| 4354403 | Screw driver apparatus Screw driving apparatus in which a slide is movable back and forth on a support and is formed with a chute extending in the slide away from the support toward an open end of the chute, and with an access opening to the chute. A driver is mounted on the su... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4003417 | Self locking and unlocking clamp for automatic fastener driving tools A self locking and unlocking clamp for use in cooperation with an automatic fastener driving tool. The clamp includes a fastener receiving head having a pair of jaw members pivotably mounted thereto. The jaw members are operated to securely hold individua... | 01/18/1977 |
| 3965950 | Fastener driver and fastener holding nosepiece Nosepiece comprises an adapter for mounting on a tool such as a power screw driver and a slide on the adapter movable parallel to the stroke of the driver. Lever-type jaws are pivoted onto the slide for holding and releasing a screw shank. Balls carried b... | 06/29/1976 |
