{"id":4295,"date":"2024-11-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4295"},"modified":"2024-11-09T09:51:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T15:51:57","slug":"november-10-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4295","title":{"rendered":"November 10, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On November 10, 1970, Samuel Young received U.S. Patent No. 3,538,508 on a Combination pillow and Crash Helmet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"894\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-4.png 600w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-4-201x300.png 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The patent explains that the device &#8220;is useful as a courtesy pillow for the comfort of airline passengers, and doubles as a crash helmet which may be put over the head of the passenger when he is forewarned of an impending crash landing.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pillow never caught on, but one can imagine the eerie sight the FAA and NTSB would encounter investigating a crash and finding all these bodies with their heads in a cloth envelope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 10, 1970, Samuel Young received U.S. Patent No. 3,538,508 on a Combination pillow and Crash Helmet: The patent explains that the device &#8220;is useful as a courtesy pillow for the comfort of airline passengers, and doubles as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4295\">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-4295","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\/4295","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=4295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4297,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions\/4297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}