{"id":4525,"date":"2025-01-13T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4525"},"modified":"2025-01-12T10:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T16:38:07","slug":"january-13-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4525","title":{"rendered":"January 13, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On January 13, 1942, Henry Ford received U.S. Patent No. 2,269,451 on an Automobile Body Construction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"482\" height=\"742\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-14.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-14.png 482w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-14-195x300.png 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The body comprised a steel tube frame supporting plastic panels.  Henry Ford began work on the plast car in the 1930s, resulting in a 2,000-pound vehicle (an average of 1000 pounds lighter than a conventional car) with a tubular steel framework surrounded by 14 plastic panels that were made from soybean and hemp. The &#8220;Soybean Car,&#8221; was first displayed at a community festival in Dearborn, MI, in August 1941.  Ford eschewed petroleum-based plastics, hoping to integrate agriculture and industry with plant-based plastics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahead of its time, Ford&#8217;s problem was timing &#8212; with the world ramping up for World War II, production of the car was deferred and never started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 13, 1942, Henry Ford received U.S. Patent No. 2,269,451 on an Automobile Body Construction: The body comprised a steel tube frame supporting plastic panels. Henry Ford began work on the plast car in the 1930s, resulting in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4525\">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-4525","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\/4525","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=4525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4527,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions\/4527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}