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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1978)
Clothes hanger radio gets protection Patent office adds 75.000 inventions in ’77 WAbnlNu I UN (AP) — A radio disguised as a clothes hanger and an electric cigarette holder for people who need to be shocked into kicking the habit were among the thousands of gimmicks and gadgets that received U.S. pa tents last vear. A total of 75,000 inventions were patented last year, but the Patent Office rejected about 25,000 other wild flashes of im agination. Any potential marketer of the clothes hanger-radio presumably would have to aim for a rather un usual market — people who want music in the closet or those whc don’t mind walking around with clothes hangers held to their ears There were plenty of gadget: last year aimed at helping smok ers stop smoking or at helpinc non-smokers stop breathmc smokers’ smoke. The electric cigarette holde may have been the ultimate ir aids for those who want to stof smoking. It is a tube connected tc a six-to-nine volt battery. Wher the tub touches the lips — zap!’ For those smokers whosr smoke is annoying to the family o 1 office workers, patents were i awarded for something called the Smoke Reducer for Cigarette : Smokers, a gizmo about the size of a cigarette package that covers l the lit end of the cigarette. Also, I there is the Nicotine Removal Process for taking the nicotine out of tobacco. A wide assortment of brain storms is available for the aggres sively lazy, such as No. 4,068,573, a Utensil for Cracking Eggs. The scissors-like gadget not only cracks the egg, it sepa rates the yolk from the white. And for the scientific mind in the kitchen there is the Carrier for Art cles Such as Eggs, a “two-hook shaped gripper” suitable for hand ling “an article having its longitud inal axis oriented substantially horizontally” — that means it’s shaped like an egg. How about a disposable chef’s hat? Or the Automatic Baster? The latter item is a pan with a tube positioned above the item to be basted. Water drips from a “plural ity of holes” in the tube. And since there is already an abundance of dental hygiene in struments to brush, pick, spray and do about everything but pull teeth or fill them, there obviously was the need for a new dentifrice No. 4,066,745 has “visible bub bles of gas containing volatilized flavor material.. . of the diameter in the 1 to 4 millimeter range.” Shelf life of the bubbly stuff is six months. Meanwhile, bad news for the health insurance industry. Patented last year was a new game — Professional Malpractice Board Game Apparatus, com plete with cards such as “Bad Services Rendered,” “Jury Duty,” “Retain Lawyer” and "Litigation Steps Plaintiff.” Feds finally put finger on fugitive PENSACOLA. Fla. (AP) — A mystery man arrested in a high speed chase punctuated by gun fire was identified by the FBI Thursday night as Ted Bundy, a former Washington state man on the FBI Most Wanted list. The FBI said Bundy is wanted for questioning in 36 sex killings in the Rocky Mountains and western states. The 31-year-old Bundy, ar rested early Wednesday in this Gulf Coast community, was iden tified through fingerprint compari sons. In a news release from Washington, D C., acting FBI Di rector James B. Adams said the arrest was made by Pensacola police Officer David Lee. The FBI said Lee saw what was termed a "suspicious" vehicle which he discovered was stolen. When he attempted to stop the car, it took off at a high rate of speed. The fleeing car stopped even tually and Bundy got out and ran. Lee fired shots at him and Bundy fell to the ground. The FBI said Bundy was not hit by the gunfire. Bundy initially identified himself as Kenneth Raymond Misner, then refused to identify himself further. 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