Tag: Patents
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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…
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Peculiar Patents – Neck Parachute
In what may be perhaps the funniest patent I have come across, a man named Benjamin Oppenheimer filed on the 26th Of March 1879 a device which if you happened to be in a burning building, would help you escape by, get this…. A person may safely jump out of the window of a burning…
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