Patents
A toothbrush designed to be bitten
Invented by Anthony John Heath and granted British patent GB 2167995A.
Posted By: Alex - Wed May 22, 2024 -
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Category: Patents, Teeth
Headache Hanger
Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 15, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, Patents, Medicine, 1910s, Head
Nightmare Prevention Mattress
Walter Cleasby was granted a UK patent (GB2263399A) in 1995 for his "nightmare prevention mattress."As far as I can tell, Cleasby believed that infant nightmares were caused by physical factors such as a) the hardness of cot mattresses, and b) pressure on a baby's heart from body weight.
His invention addressed these issues by having an inward slope as well as a recess "to protect the main organ of the body, (the Heart,) from excessive pressure."
Posted By: Alex - Fri May 10, 2024 -
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Category: Dreams and Nightmares, Patents, 1990s
Fresh Air Breathing Device
Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue May 07, 2024 -
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Category: Body, Inventions, Patents, Firefighting, Arson, Wildfires, Infernos and Other Conflagrations, Danger, Risk, and Peril, Excrement
Device to self-administer gas
This curious device was featured in Mechanix Illustrated (July 1938), but no info was given about the inventor.
So I searched the patent archive. This patent granted to Justin Sholes in 1939 seems to be it:
Posted By: Alex - Thu Apr 25, 2024 -
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Category: Drugs, Patents, 1930s
Trick Gun for Secret Society Initiations
Imagine the sheer delight of the person being initiated, when the realistic looking gun is pointed at them, a loud explosion occurs--but only water emerges! High-larious!Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 24, 2024 -
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Category: Clubs, Fraternities and Other Self-selecting Organizations, Guns, Patents, 1900s, Pranks
French Fry Injector
Why slather your fires with ketchup or cheese or mayo like a peasant, when you could laboriously inject the condiment into each individual fry?Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 19, 2024 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Inventions, Patents, Junk Food, Twenty-first Century
Multi-dimensional rotating chess
Recently patented by Craig Wallace Coulter. Patent No. 11,896,913.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Apr 15, 2024 -
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Category: Games, Patents
Trick Chair
Bang! And down goes the victim!Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 09, 2024 -
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Category: Clubs, Fraternities and Other Self-selecting Organizations, Patents, 1900s, Pranks
Ornamental Ash Tray
The entire patent, figure and text, is given below. How I wish the inventor had gone on at length about his design.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 05, 2024 -
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Category: Obscenity, Patents, Smoking and Tobacco, 1940s
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