The following is an article from The Annals of Imp... ...irely deter those who would purloin bicycles.U.S. patent #650082 for a “bicycle attachment,” w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/07/05/Plucked-From-Obscurity-Bicycle-Seat-with-Needles/Margaret Knight went to work in a cotton mill in N... ...who’d seen her invention had gone ahead and patented it. That meant war. Read about Margaret Knight an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/05/31/The-Origin-of-the-Paper-Bag/(Image: US Patent Office)Recently, in the office, while passing by... ...I could have escaped if only I had Albert Cohen's patented apparatus for simulating a high five. It is made... ...f some high five action. Cohen writes in his 1993 patent paperwork that his machine is des...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/27/Machine-That-Simulates-a-High-Five/The following is an article from The Annals of Imp... ...n lint removal. That changed, slightly, in 2007.A patent application (US #2007/0041923) filed by Takao Oka...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/05/The-OkajimaFujinami-Navel-Lint-Invention/The following is an article from The Annals of Imp... ...d an inventive cloak to kissing, resulting in two patents .Wooden Adaptations to Kissing“Kissing Shiel... ...ions to Kissing“Kissing Shield,” U.S. patent 5787895, granted August 4, 1998 to Deloris Gray W... ...granted August 4, 1998 to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/01/Plucked-From-Obscurity-Kissing-and-Tongue-Shields/The following is an article from The Annals of Imp... ...uo;I.D. Socks (Identification Socks),” U.S. patent 4734938, issued Apr 5, 1988, to Bruce R. Anderson... ...38, issued Apr 5, 1988, to Bruce R. Anderson. The patent document explains:A sock (hosiery) with identific... ...to Facilitate Matching of C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/12/22/Inventions-to-Match-Up-Matching-Socks/The following is an article from The Annals of Imp... ...vie comedies. Based on an Uplifting PrincipleU.S. patent #7,014,147, granted to Mr. Egeresi on March 21, 2... ..., of Taichung, Taiwan. Mr. Hsieh was granted U.S. patent #6,219,959, on April 24, 2001, for what he calls... ...ire further details may obta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/11/03/Plucked-from-Obscurity-Anti-Hijack-Device/Christian Kent Nelson experimented with many diffe... ...mo Pies. What sank the company he founded was the patent he applied for, which his advisors didn’t t... ...chocolate coating. So one would imagine that the patent would have described precise specifications for m... ...or the number of seconds to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/10/22/The-Eskimo-Pie-Patent-Saga/The following is an article from The Annals of Imp... ...and Photographically Recording Them” (U.S. patent 1749090, granted 1930) tried to ensure that crimi... ...Thibault’s “Burglar Trap” (U.S. Patent 1807944, granted 1931) improves on a long traditi... ...quo;s “Crime Preventio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/02/25/Further-Advances-in-Miscreant-Trapping/The follwing is an article from The Annals of Impr... ...y radio, await his arrival.1. Detail from Pizzo's patent for trapping and disposing of an airplane hijacke... ...ing of an airplane hijacker.For details, see U.S. Patent #3811643, "Anti Hijacking System for Aircraft," g... ...awarded the 2007 Ig Nobel P...
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