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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 |
| 4094014 | Workman's glove The improved glove of the present invention is particularly adapted for protective use by a mechanic or other workman who may encounter sharp and/or heavy solid objects, such as exposed parts of an engine or chassis. The glove includes a protective, hand-... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094015 | Neck roll for helmet A neck roll of cushion material to be affixed to a helmet or similar protective device to become an integral part thereof, which neck roll stays in the proper position between the shoulders and the bottom edge of the helmet shell regardless of orientation... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094016 | Artificial hand and forearm An artificial hand and forearm comprises an elongated housing open at its rear end adapted to receive the stub of a human forearm and adjacent upper arm, adapted for securing thereto. A plate within the housing pivotally mounts a series of finger assembli... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094017 | Knee joint prosthesis with patellar-femoral contact A knee joint prosthesis of the type described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,868,730 has a pair of inwardly sloped radially merging extensions of its condyle runners forming a patella-guiding trough above and between the runners. The extensions merge smoothly into ea... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094018 | Bottom douche for flush toilets A bottom douche for flush toilets comprises arms supported with one end on the toilet; spray nozzles carried at the free ends of said arms; duct means for passing water through said arms to said nozzles; a handle associated with the toilet, and a linkage ... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094019 | Retractable toilet bowl assembly An assembly havng a retractable toilet bowl incorporates conduit means in the bowl trunnion for delivering water to the toilet bowl via pipes on its underside. The trunnion conduit means incorporates a Sloan valve of standard commerical type to provide ad... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094020 | Urine specimen collector A urine specimen collector includes first and second tubes disposed alongside one another. The first tube is closed at its lower end and has a mouth at its upper end engageable around the urethral orifice. The second tube is open at its lower end. A duct ... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094021 | Swimming pool cover A pool cover in sheet form is provided with tie members which are connectable to tie-anchoring members which are secured to the side walls of the pool just below the coping. The cover is provided with depending skirt portions around its edges which extend... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094022 | Apparatus for the removal of water from a swimming pool duct Apparatus for use with a swimming pool having a drain opening on a vertical surface, the apparatus consisting of an open-topped, open-sided enclosure with edges which engage the surface around the drain and with a pump on the interior for removing water.... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094023 | Ventilated toilet seat A toilet seat is provided on its underside with a suction tube having perforations that are in communication with the interior of the toilet bowl when the seat rests on the upper edge of the bowl with a sealing gasket arranged on the underside of the seat... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094024 | System for controlling relative movement of portions of a bed System for controlling selective relative positional movement of portions of a bed structure with respect to a main supporting bed base frame, such as in a hospital bed, in which a single common motor controllable, e.g. by suitably actuatable switch means... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094025 | Water mattress A water mattress which can be adjusted to all intermediate degrees of softness between hard and completely soft. The water mattress consisting of water container, open upwards and with a bottom shaped to contain a minimum of water. A flexible elastic wate... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094026 | Beehive An indoor observation beehive is disclosed which comprises an enclosed brood chamber and an enclosed honey chamber which can be isolated from the brood chamber. Two gated passageways are provided between the two chambers, and a queen excluder is mounted a... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094027 | Interlocking two piece hull for a catamaran The invention is a molding process for forming a hull for a catamaran which has a sidewall that includes a first layer of fiberglass and polyester resin forming its exterior surface and a second layer of fiberglass and polyester resin forming its interior... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094028 | Automatic inflating lifesaving buoy An automatically inflating lifesaving buoy device having a gas generating device in which the gas generating composition is ignited by an electric ignition device powered by a water-activated electric cell or battery. The gas then generated is cooled as i... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094029 | Shoe fastener An integrally molded fastener for a shoe includes a pair of elongated carrier members hinged together at the bottom ends thereof and which can be releaseably secured together. Flexible string-like members extend from carrier members for passing through th... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094030 | Shoe hanger A shoe hanger including individual inserts that deform and frictionally engage the inner surfaces of a shoe between the insole and vamp. Each insert includes an elongated core and protruding resilient surfaces spaced along the length of the core for frict... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094031 | Cleaning apparatus for selected small areas of a swimming pool Cleaning apparatus for cleaning selected small areas of a swimming pool comprising hand operated vacuum inducing means, water inlet tubes attached to the vacuum inducing means, and debris retaining and removal means within said tubes.... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094032 | Cleaning device A cleaning device includes a cylindrical brush which is mounted in a housing for rotation about an axis transverse to the direction of movement of the cleaning device over the surface to be cleaned. The brush has at least two sections which are independen... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094033 | Cleaning device A cleaning device includes a housing which bounds an internal space, and an electric motor and bearings for the shaft of the rotor of the electric motor are accommodated in such space. A blower element shares in the rotation of the shaft and advances air ... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094034 | Floor treatment machines A floor treatment machine of the rotary brush type in which, in operation, the weight of the machine is, to at least a significant extent, supported by the rotary brush or brushes, in which a brush mounting member is flexibly suspended between resilient e... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094035 | Curling broom Brooms made of synthetic fibers and having the necessary characteristics to be used for curling. Brooms of synthetic fibers wherein the essentially non-springiness of such fibers is compensated by inserting a resilient means within the bundle of fibers, s... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094036 | Floor cleaning device A floor cleaning device includes a holding member which is of generally U-shaped cross-sectional configuration, including a bight interconnecting two arms, which together bound a recess for partially receiving a cleaning element so that a cleaning edge of... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094037 | Wiping device A wiping device includes an elongated wiping blade of elastically yieldable material, a handle, and an arrangement for replaceably mounting the blade on the handle, including an elongated mounting member of U-shaped cross-section which is supported on the... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094038 | Windscreen wipers for automobile vehicles Windscreen wiper of the type comprising a pivotal arm and a blade detachably mounted on the free end of the arm, a pin integral with the arm or with the blade and journalled in a bore formed in the other part, that is, the blade or the arm respectively. T... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094039 | Windshield wiper bayonet clip with double latch A connector clip for use in connecting a bayonet type windshield wiper arm to the superstructure of a windshield wiper assembly has a main body which includes means for connecting the clip body to the windshield wiper superstructure and a sleeve which is ... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094040 | Hinge A hinge is provided for mounting a frameless glass door or the like on a fixture. The hinge includes a part-cylindrical body portion adapted to be inserted in an opening in the door, the cross-section of the opening being defined by a chord which provides... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094041 | Dressing holder for small game A holder from which the carcass of a small animal, such as a squirrel, may be suspended in a head-down position for partial skinning and a head-up position for completing the dressing out of the carcass, has a diamond-shaped frame adapted to be hung from ... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094042 | Method for removing meat from bone fragments Apparatus for removing and recovering meat from trimmed and untrimmed bone fragments comprises a hollow sleeve open at one end for receiving a quantity of bone fragments to be processed. Hydraulic cylinders raise the sleeve to bring one end into engagemen... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094043 | Roller gin with grooved square rotobar A roller cotton gin including a ginning roller and a stationary knife to which seed cotton is conveyed by the friction surface of the ginning roller for separating lint fibers from the cotton seed, and a rotary stripping blade device adjacent the stationa... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094044 | Tensioning device for tightening and securing a holding strap A tensioning device for tightening a holding strap and for securing a holding strap in a tightened position which includes a bracket having opposed arm portions to which there is pivotally connected a handle for rotation between an operative and inoperati... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094045 | Coupling device and method A coupling device and method for attaching a length of flexible line thereto. The device is a spring member composed of first and second sections of aligned coils providing a longitudinally extending central channel having an entrance and exit port. The f... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094046 | Seat belt buckle A safety belt coupling device includes a buckle having a hollow body provided with a front tongue receiving opening and an upwardly projecting latch member having an inclined front face. A coupling tongue having a front latch opening is slideable through ... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094047 | Snap shackle A snap shackle has a generally U-shaped closure link, the shanks of which are bridged by at least a part of a fastener body. One of the shanks of the closure link is rotatably and displaceably mounted in the fastener body and the other shank is provided a... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094048 | Method of heat forming of workpieces A method for hot metal forming of workpieces with at least two secondary adjacent form elements lying non-symmetrically to the axis of the main form element and slightly spaced from each other, particularly for the manufacture of crankshafts, whereby a ro... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094049 | Casting rolling mill for wire A rolling mill structure is provided especially for wire and like products having a continuously operating casting unit providing a cast metal strand and a rolling mill receiving the strand, the rolling mill being installed on a sliding carriage that is c... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094050 | Backup roll of the built-up type A backup roll of the built-up type has its shrinkage-fitting surface formed between an arbor and a sleeve divided into two portions, i.e. one an inward stepped shrinkage-fitting portion and the other an outward shrinkage-fitting portions, the former being... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094051 | Method of making sheaves A series of adjoining concentric rings are cut from a metal plate. The same number of hubs, all the same shape, are also cut from plate material as are annular web plates to fit around hubs, but the outer diameters of the web plates are different from one... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094052 | Lock removal tool A handy tool is disclosed which forcibly withdraws a lock cylinder out from its housing by using means which engages underneath an outside flange on the lock cylinder and exerts a pulling force thereon.... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4094053 | Forging process Process for manufacturing a forged article in which a preform is generated by filling a semi-rigid liner with powdered metal, providing the liner with a sealing element, and isostactically compressing the liner and its contents. The liner is then removed ... | 06/13/1978 |
