US Patent and Trademark Office is one of the greatest repositories of practical knowledge in history. But along with a great deal of very serious and edifying material, much legally advised and/or required verbiage, and inventor-inspired general-purpose pleonasms, there are some items in their records that are highly amusing. In this series, occasional examples of such patents and patent applications are going to be extracted and put up for their amusement value.
Over the last several months, a great many people have purchased a truly amazing amount of toilet paper. But there are interesting questions about how to optimally achieve convenient dispensing of those squares or rectangles. But do they really have to be rectangular? Is there an advantage to a different shape? And is putting the paper's free end next to the wall, or further away from it, a better decision? The inventor here definitely suggests the end should be away from the wall.
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