{"id":4692,"date":"2025-04-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4692"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:26:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T20:26:29","slug":"april-14-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4692","title":{"rendered":"April 14, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On April 14, 1914, Stacy Gulick Carkhuff received U.S. Patent No. 1,093,310 on a Vehicle Tire:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-6-646x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-6-646x1024.png 646w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-6-189x300.png 189w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-6-768x1218.png 768w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-6-969x1536.png 969w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-6-1291x2048.png 1291w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-6.png 1975w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Carkhuff&#8217;s tire was literally and figuratively non-skid, with raised letters spelling out NON-SKID providing the increased friction that improved traction:<\/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\/04\/image-7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"502\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4695\" style=\"width:241px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-7.png 502w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-7-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Carkhuff was the Secretary of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company from 1905 to 1943, and a driving force behind its success.  His tire design was a brilliant combination of functionality and marketing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"357\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4699\" style=\"width:283px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-11.png 357w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-11-199x300.png 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-12.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-12-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4700\" style=\"width:317px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-12-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-12-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-12-1152x1536.png 1152w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-12.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-13.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"455\" height=\"504\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-13.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4701\" style=\"width:614px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-13.png 455w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-13-271x300.png 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 14, 1914, Stacy Gulick Carkhuff received U.S. Patent No. 1,093,310 on a Vehicle Tire: Carkhuff&#8217;s tire was literally and figuratively non-skid, with raised letters spelling out NON-SKID providing the increased friction that improved traction: Carkhuff was the Secretary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4692\">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-4692","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\/4692","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=4692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4704,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692\/revisions\/4704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}