{"id":1908,"date":"2018-01-10T17:39:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T22:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2018-01-11T18:24:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T23:24:32","slug":"vocabulary-infundibuliform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1908","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary: Infundibuliform"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s A.Word.A.Day from wordsmith is infundibuliform, a neat word for funnel-shaped.\u00a0 The word has been used in at least two dozen patents and in the claims of five:\u00a06,276,549,\u00a04,747,343,\u00a04,416,404,\u00a04,288,982,\u00a0 4,054,970.\u00a0 In U.S. Patent No. 4,747,343, claim 6 is directed to the\u00a0 infundibuliform shape of the end of an auger, which is described in the specification:<\/p>\n

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One can imagine circumstances where a fancy word like infundibuliform might enhance the prestige of an invention, but for most applications good old “funnel-shaped” is probably the best choice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s A.Word.A.Day from wordsmith is infundibuliform, a neat word for funnel-shaped.\u00a0 The word has been used in at least two dozen patents and in the claims of five:\u00a06,276,549,\u00a04,747,343,\u00a04,416,404,\u00a04,288,982,\u00a0 4,054,970.\u00a0 In U.S. Patent No. 4,747,343, claim 6 is directed to the\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-vocabulary"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions\/1911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}