{"id":4031,"date":"2024-08-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4031"},"modified":"2024-08-15T16:04:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T21:04:14","slug":"august-17-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4031","title":{"rendered":"August 17, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Solymon Merrick received the first U.S. patent on a wrench (U.S. Patent No. X9030) on August 17, 1835:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-42.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"466\" height=\"673\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-42.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4033\" style=\"width:479px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-42.png 466w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-42-208x300.png 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Of course wrenches existed before Merrick&#8217;s invention, and they have continued to be improved ever since.  One such improvement is U.S. Patent No. 1,133,236, which issued March 23, 1915, on the &#8220;Crescent&#8221; wrench:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-43.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"487\" height=\"754\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-43.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-43.png 487w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-43-194x300.png 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solymon Merrick received the first U.S. patent on a wrench (U.S. Patent No. X9030) on August 17, 1835: Of course wrenches existed before Merrick&#8217;s invention, and they have continued to be improved ever since. One such improvement is U.S. Patent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4031\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patent-of-the-day"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031","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=4031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4035,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions\/4035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}