{"id":23529,"date":"2013-08-15T15:54:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T19:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=23529"},"modified":"2013-08-15T15:55:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T19:55:16","slug":"national-store-chain-gives-inventor-an-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=23529","title":{"rendered":"National Store Chain Gives Inventor An Oppor- tunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY LEON B. CREWS<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sentinel Staff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When <strong>Cornelius Pate, Sr.<\/strong> decided he wanted to shed a few pounds last year, he discovered there weren\u2019t any weight devices that were adjustable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I wanted was something I could hold in my hand, and be able to adjust the weight without changing the device. That\u2019s when I came up with the concept for fitness sticks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFitness sticks are a pair of hand-held weights that can be made lighter or heavier by removing some of the weight bars inside.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Pate<\/strong> spent a year working on his fitness sticks, and has developed a prototype.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s when I heard that Wal-Mart was giving inventors an opportunity to get their products on their shelves. They started out with 5,000 inventors, and now I\u2019m among the 1,000 that will enter the next phase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI contacted an engineer to design the fitness sticks for me, and I\u2019ve gotten them patented and trademarked. I\u2019ve introduced them to sporting good stores in the area, and they were all very receptive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pate<\/strong> said his wife, <strong>Lyette<\/strong>, has been very helpful in helping him with his invention, and taking care of their five children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy wife and I have been married for 25 years, and we both are college graduates. I need people to go on the Wal-Mart website, and vote for them to adopt my fitness sticks. The contest ends September 3rd, and my website is<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> http:\/\/www.fitnesssticks.com\/<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pate<\/strong> is an Associate Pastor at Freedom M.B. Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY LEON B. CREWS Sentinel Staff Writer When Cornelius Pate, Sr. decided he wanted to shed a few pounds last year, he discovered there weren\u2019t any weight devices that were adjustable. \u201cWhat I wanted was something I could hold in my hand, and be able to adjust the weight without changing the device. That\u2019s when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}