{"id":4559,"date":"2025-01-24T07:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T13:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4559"},"modified":"2025-01-24T07:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T13:09:10","slug":"january-23-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4559","title":{"rendered":"January 23, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On January 23, 1968, U.S. Patent No. 3,364,616, issued to Samuel Speers on a Toy Deep Sea Diver Outfit:<\/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\/2025\/01\/image-28.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"890\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-28.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4560\" style=\"width:490px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-28.png 625w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-28-211x300.png 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This outfit was for GI Joe, which Speers also designed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speers began working for Hassenfeld Brothers in 1960.  He was quickly put in charge of product development for GI Joe who he patented (U.S. Patent No. 3,277,602) a few years earlier in 1966: <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-29.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"492\" height=\"748\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-29.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-29.png 492w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-29-197x300.png 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In 1969 after several hits including GI Joe and Mr. Potatohead, Hassenfeld Brothers rebranded as Hasbro, and Speers was an integral part of their success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 23, 1968, U.S. Patent No. 3,364,616, issued to Samuel Speers on a Toy Deep Sea Diver Outfit: This outfit was for GI Joe, which Speers also designed. Speers began working for Hassenfeld Brothers in 1960. He was quickly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4559\">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-4559","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\/4559","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=4559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4562,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions\/4562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}