{"id":5258,"date":"2026-07-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5258"},"modified":"2026-07-03T10:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:49:17","slug":"july-4-2026-patent-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5258","title":{"rendered":"July 4, 2026, Patent of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today’s patent of the day was not issued on the day, but is about the day. U.S. Patent No. 978489 issued to Malcolm Salmond on an Amusement Device:<\/p>\n\n\n

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The invention is a patriotic jack-in-the box, which is triggered by a fuse. Unlike traditional fireworks the device is much safe, and reusable, when the diaphragm and fuse are replaced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s patent of the day was not issued on the day, but is about the day. U.S. Patent No. 978489 issued to Malcolm Salmond on an Amusement Device: The invention is a patriotic jack-in-the box, which is triggered by a … Continue reading →<\/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-5258","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\/5258","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=5258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5260,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258\/revisions\/5260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}