{"id":5032,"date":"2025-11-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5032"},"modified":"2025-11-27T20:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T02:11:18","slug":"november-29-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5032","title":{"rendered":"November 29, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On November 29, 1932, Laurens Hammond (of Hammond organ fame) received U.S. Patent No. 1,889,729 (one of his more than one hundred patents) on a Card Table with Automatic Dealing Mechanism:<\/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\/11\/image-18.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"814\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-18.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-18.png 500w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-18-184x300.png 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The table was designed to automatically deal four bridge hands of 13 cards, and was actually manufactured:<\/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\/11\/image-19.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"657\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-19.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5034\" style=\"width:453px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-19.png 657w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-19-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-19-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 29, 1932, Laurens Hammond (of Hammond organ fame) received U.S. Patent No. 1,889,729 (one of his more than one hundred patents) on a Card Table with Automatic Dealing Mechanism: The table was designed to automatically deal four bridge &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5032\">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-5032","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\/5032","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=5032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5035,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions\/5035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}