Five Real Patents

PurpleSlinky has posted a list of five idiotic, but real, registered US patents. Like this one under number U.S. Patent 1,493,222 about “A weighing device especially adapted for weighing feces as excreted…� �The operation is obvious. After the feces are deposited a reading is made. Then to wash the tray, the finger is pressed down on the cap 18 and the closet simultaneously flushed.”. Amazing. Click to read more.

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