-----Original Message-----From: Ian Miles [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: (Fwd) FC: U.S. Patent Office awards patent for swinging on swing
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Date sent: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 09:33:21 -0700
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From: Declan McCullagh <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: FC: U.S. Patent Office awards patent for swinging on
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[The most innovative patent yet! What will those cunning inventors
think of next? Here's my favorite excerpt: "It should be noted that
because pulling alternately on one chain and then the other
resembles
in some measure the movements one would use to swing from
vines in a
dense jungle forest, the swinging method of the present invention
may
be referred to by the present inventor and his sister as 'Tarzan'
swinging. The user may even choose to produce a Tarzan-type yell
while
swinging in the manner described, which more accurately replicates
swinging on vines in a dense jungle forest. Actual jungle forestry
is not required." --Declan]
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:22:05 -0400
From: Gabriel Rocha <[log in to unmask]>
To: Declan McCullagh <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Patent for swinging on a swing sideways.
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I still haven't been able to bring myself to believe it, but it is on
the official uspto site, so I don't know what to think. This is the
abstract for patent number 6,368,227 issued on April 9, 2002 (if the
date had said April 1 I would not have believed it at all) --Gabe
Abstract
A method of swing on a swing is disclosed, in which a user
positioned
on a standard swing suspended by two chains from a substantially
horizontal tree branch induces side to side motion by pulling
alternately on one chain and then the other.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-
Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PA
LL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='6,368,227'.
WKU.&OS=PN/
6,368,227&RS=PN/6,368,227
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