Someone named P. Marchio filed this patent for a “banana extractor and ice cream injector” in 1932. What a wonderful idea! Unfortunately, there’s no evidence that this was ever actually made, nor is there any sign that a banana with ice cream in it will ever replace the classic banana split.
[via Gizmodo]
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Why, with one of these – I COULD RULE THE WORLD!
Is it weird, that the first thing I noticed here is the author’s impeccable penmanship?
I’d like to know how long it took before it was repurposed as a penis pump.
Two new words for me today: “productized” and “skeletalized.” BB’s a font of, um, knowledge.
“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.
As a great sage once said, time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
You just had to one-up yourself didn’t you?
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/12/odd-new-product-crem.html
ZOMG WANT!
seriously,
noone else looks at that and sees caulk gun?
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
A variation of this did make it into production.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrccEj-nSXI
Trust in Ron.
Nope. It’s a syringe with a handle.
This would be great for carrying around just to be able to say “Hey, I got your banana injector right here!”
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?
Sweet Jeesus, why has this NOT been made!!!??
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…
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.
“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!
“I haven’t been able to order one, even though I am a professional.”
I need to use that line in my life.
I can see why this never caught on. The mental image is terrifying.
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
productized? read PRODUCED !!!! twerp.
“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.