{"id":5115,"date":"2026-01-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5115"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:03:22","slug":"january-3-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5115","title":{"rendered":"January 3, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On January 3, 1995, U.S. Patent No. 5,377,411 issued to Demetrios Andriotis on a Hair Cutting Appliance:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-5-scaled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"697\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-5-697x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5117\" style=\"width:562px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-5-697x1024.png 697w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-5-204x300.png 204w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-5-768x1128.png 768w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-5-1046x1536.png 1046w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-5-1394x2048.png 1394w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-5-scaled.png 1743w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Demetrios created a haircutting appliance comprising &#8220;an enclosed housing having a hollow handle connecting the housing to a vacuum source to carry away cut hairs from a subject&#8217;s head.&#8221;  It sounds like a Flowbee, patented by Rick E. Hunts:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"547\" height=\"848\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-6.png 547w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-6-194x300.png 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Hunts started in 1988 selling Flowbees from his garage before finding success with late-night informercials.  By 2000, he had sold more than two million Flowbees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 3, 1995, U.S. Patent No. 5,377,411 issued to Demetrios Andriotis on a Hair Cutting Appliance: Demetrios created a haircutting appliance comprising &#8220;an enclosed housing having a hollow handle connecting the housing to a vacuum source to carry away &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5115\">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-5115","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\/5115","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=5115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5119,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115\/revisions\/5119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}