{"id":5336,"date":"2026-07-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5336"},"modified":"2026-07-17T22:48:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:48:55","slug":"july-19-2026-patent-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5336","title":{"rendered":"July 19, 2026, Patent of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On July 19, 1892, U.S. Patent No. 479,207, issued to G.Q. Seaman on a Time Alarm Bed:<\/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-38.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"522\" height=\"787\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-38.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-38.png 522w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-38-199x300.png 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The bed is constructed to &#8220;eject the occupant of the bed, so that the said occupant will not only be awakened, but must necessarily arise.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is probably the logical escalation of Samuel S. Applegatte&#8217;s Device for Waking Persons form Sleep, (U.S. Patent No. 256265), which merely employed 60 bells suspended over the bed to wake the occupant:<\/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-39.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"511\" height=\"825\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-39.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-39.png 511w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-39-186x300.png 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 19, 1892, U.S. Patent No. 479,207, issued to G.Q. Seaman on a Time Alarm Bed: The bed is constructed to &#8220;eject the occupant of the bed, so that the said occupant will not only be awakened, but must &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5336\">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-5336","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\/5336","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=5336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5339,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5336\/revisions\/5339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}