{"id":5325,"date":"2026-07-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5325"},"modified":"2026-07-17T23:01:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T04:01:40","slug":"june-17-2026-patent-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5325","title":{"rendered":"June 17, 2026, Patent of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On July 17, 1888, Jack W. James received U.S. Patent No., 386,403 on an Apparatus for Preventing Collisions of Railway Trains:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-32.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"716\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-32.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-32.png 480w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-32-201x300.png 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The invention is a telescoping extension from the front of the train, which when it contacts actuates the brakes and reverses the engine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-34.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-34.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-34.png 850w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-34-300x105.png 300w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-34-768x269.png 768w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-34-500x175.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A few years later, H.L. Simmons solved the problem a different way &#8212; providing a ramp so that one train can pass harmlessly over the other one:<\/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-41.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"465\" height=\"740\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-41.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-41.png 465w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-41-189x300.png 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 17, 1888, Jack W. James received U.S. Patent No., 386,403 on an Apparatus for Preventing Collisions of Railway Trains: The invention is a telescoping extension from the front of the train, which when it contacts actuates the brakes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5325\">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-5325","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\/5325","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=5325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5344,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325\/revisions\/5344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}