1932 banana-ice cream injector patent

Steve Schnier

#1 – 10:16 AM August 25, 2009

Why, with one of these - I COULD RULE THE WORLD!

TJ S

#2 – 10:22 AM August 25, 2009

Is it weird, that the first thing I noticed here is the author's impeccable penmanship?

FonHom

#3 – 10:48 AM August 25, 2009

I'd like to know how long it took before it was repurposed as a penis pump.

buddy66

#4 – 10:48 AM August 25, 2009

Two new words for me today: "productized" and "skeletalized." BB's a font of, um, knowledge.

Checkr

#5 – 11:22 AM August 25, 2009

"The device was never productized,"
Productized? Lrn2English.

"but I believe at least one working model must have been made to accompany the patent application (working models were a requirement for patenting until recently)"

Only required through 1880.

Frank W

#6 – 11:25 AM August 25, 2009

As a great sage once said, time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

SednaBoo

#7 – 11:38 AM August 25, 2009

You just had to one-up yourself didn't you?

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/12/odd-new-product-crem.html

HornCologne

#8 – 11:47 AM August 25, 2009

ZOMG WANT!

JoshP

#9 – 1:04 PM August 25, 2009

seriously,
noone else looks at that and sees caulk gun?

liatach

#10 – 2:51 PM August 25, 2009

There is a guy in Brisbane who sells banana's piped full of different types of chocolate moose and resealed with wax. so you still get to peel the banana properly
http://lifehacker.com/5311002/open-a-banana-like-a-monkey
They are awesome, like why am I not eating one right now, awesome

Semaine

#11 – 3:38 PM August 25, 2009

A variation of this did make it into production.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrccEj-nSXI

Trust in Ron.

Piers W

#12 – 5:27 PM August 25, 2009

Nope. It's a syringe with a handle.

SkullHyphy

#13 – 6:40 PM August 25, 2009

This would be great for carrying around just to be able to say "Hey, I got your banana injector right here!"

Anonymous Anonymous

#14 – 10:01 PM August 25, 2009

is Cory going to get the EFF to fight to have this patent overturned and then have the banana ice-cream injector released under a Creative Commons license?

overunger

#15 – 12:53 AM August 26, 2009

Sweet Jeesus, why has this NOT been made!!!??

Gilbert Wham

#16 – 4:47 AM August 26, 2009

I might make one of these, the world needs this awesome device bringing back from the grave. You could make out like a goddamn bandit on a sunny day in the park, too.

SSsssssshhhhh. Don't tell the patent office though...

heydemann3

#17 – 6:43 AM August 26, 2009

This exists today, from a company in Brazil. I haven't been able to order one, even though I am a professional. I guess I need some one who can translate Portuguese.

Rob Beschizza

#18 – 8:24 AM August 26, 2009

"is Cory going to get the EFF to fight to have this patent overturned and then have the banana ice-cream injector released under a Creative Commons license?"

The patent is so old that it will have expired anyway!

dculberson

#19 – 8:35 AM August 26, 2009

"I haven't been able to order one, even though I am a professional."

I need to use that line in my life.

Kerry

#20 – 10:50 AM August 26, 2009

I can see why this never caught on. The mental image is terrifying.

flytch

#21 – 11:09 AM August 26, 2009

the idea seems cool... ice-cream in a chocolate covered banana :) Yuummmmmmm... but try finding constantly straight bananas (or constantly bent ones for that matter)... LOL

Dave

#22 – 6:03 PM August 26, 2009

productized? read PRODUCED !!!! twerp.

FutureNerd

#23 – 11:39 PM August 26, 2009

"I.C. Wiener!?"

Seriously, folks, productized is totally a word among people who, er, productize things.

@TJ S: It very well may have been produced by a patent draftsman. Draftsmen used to do their letters and numbers by hand in prescribed styles; maybe patent illustrations had their own lettering style, it certainly looks patent-like.