{"id":4318,"date":"2024-11-16T18:57:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T00:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4318"},"modified":"2024-11-16T18:57:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T00:57:04","slug":"november-16-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4318","title":{"rendered":"November 16, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On November 16, 1841, U.S. Patent No. 2359 issued to Napoleon Guerin on an Improvement in Buoyant Dresses or Life-Preservers:<\/p>\n\n\n

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The patent explains that the invention consists of a jacket, waistcoat, or Coat composed of any kind of tissue in which is introduced a quantity of from eighteen to twenty quarts of rasped or grated cork. This was not the first U.S. patent on a life preserver, but it was the first patent on a life preserver made of cork, see U.S. Patent No. 679, 1595, and 1596.<\/p>\n\n\n

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On November 16, 1841, U.S. Patent No. 2359 issued to Napoleon Guerin on an Improvement in Buoyant Dresses or Life-Preservers: The patent explains that the invention consists of a jacket, waistcoat, or Coat composed of any kind of tissue in … 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318","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=4318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4324,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions\/4324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}