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.
When we have done something good, it is entirely possible that someone will give us a pat on the back. But when no one is around to do that, there is a novel idea that we can just give one to ourselves. But because it is anatomically complicated to it by ourselves (just ask your local orthopedic doctor), someone has patented a way to accomplish the task with a little mechanical assistance.
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