{"id":5279,"date":"2026-07-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5279"},"modified":"2026-07-08T22:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:08:17","slug":"july-9-2026-patent-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5279","title":{"rendered":"July 9, 2026, Patent of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On July 9, 1872, U.S. Patent No. 128783 issued to John F. Blondel on an Improvement in Doughnut Cutters:<\/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\/07\/image-12.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"478\" height=\"756\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-12.png 478w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-12-190x300.png 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Thomaston was a sea captain, and apparently a baker.  However, credit for invention the hole itself goes to Hanson Gregory, a young sailor who first perforated a doughnut in 1847.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 9, 1872, U.S. Patent No. 128783 issued to John F. Blondel on an Improvement in Doughnut Cutters: \u00a0Thomaston was a sea captain, and apparently a baker. However, credit for invention the hole itself goes to Hanson Gregory, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5279\">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-5279","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\/5279","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=5279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5281,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279\/revisions\/5281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}