Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1920 — MONEY MADE IN ODD IDEAS [ARTICLE]

MONEY MADE IN ODD IDEAS

Practically No Limit to Inventions That Have Been Granted Patents In / United States. -J* 'A to enumerating some of the strange patents sanctioned by the patent office an attorney mentions a tornadoproof house, the Invention of a New England man. It is built on a pivot so that every breeze turns It With its head to the wind. Among other Inventions Is a “pedal caloriflcatbr " with which one can blow upon one’s toes to warm them. It Is a tube, worn under the clothes, with a branch leading to each foot a mouthpiece at the top. Then there are a polisher for false teeth—merely the end of a corncob stuck on a stick; a sanitary pocket for carrying chewing gum, a wooden bit for preventing snoring, a noiseless alarm clock that yanks the sleeper’s arm instead of ringing, another that starts a mechanism that throws him out of bed, and a machine for counting eggs as they are laid. " /O' _____________