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Peculiar Patents – Spaghetti Fork

This is perhaps the coolest patent and the invention that I think can comfortably fall under “didn’t know I needed it”. The device when held would contain a spiral mechanism which when depressed twists the fork and clicks. For some reason I could not find the initial design first patented by one William J. Miscavich…
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Peculiar Patents – Madman Of Patents

In perhaps what may be the most bizarre individual to grace the floors of the UK patents office, we are presented with inventor Arthur Paul Pedrick who some have dubbed the “King Of Wacky Patents”. Being himself a former patent examiner stationed in the UK office, Pedrick viled a vast and somewhat absurd list of…
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Peculiar Patents – Shoot Yourself In The Foot Gun

If necessity is the mother of all invention, these few cases will make you wonder if you, yourself could be an inventor. Under US patent No. 1,187,218 lies a particularly humorous rifle, designed by one Jones Whister and officially filed on the 15th March 1916, the rifle had a curved barrel that would – Deflect…







