Jean-Claude van Damme could do...

The splits.

Now you can too, with your very own Leg Stretching Apparatus.

US Patent 4456247

Climbing on your woman is not a good idea.

But climbing on your naked lady ladder, that's a different story.

This one belonged to a good friend of mine who examines over in the ladder field. It didn't get a patent, but did make the rounds in the office - funny ones always do!

Colleen, this one's for you. US Application Publication 2009/0014398.

Camouflage is great, but a good blind is better.

Especially when it's the Head-Blind.

US Application Publication 2005/0081272, the Camouflage Hood Assembly. It never got a patent.

If you loved your bellbottoms, you needed this.

It's the Disco-tastic version of the bustle, updated for the highest fashion of the 1970s.

US Patent 3877079, "Method for making an article conformable to a variably shaped cylindrical surface"

Yessuh.

Unbelievable. The things I find in the oldest corners of my art. 

Presenting Mr. William J. Lynch's Improvement in Supporters for Cotton-Pickers.

US Patent 173100

One of MY Very Own!

Once in a while, you'll see me staring at something (usually an umbrella or tent, okay, we're not talking about the other things I stare at) and most of the time it's just because it is a device that I've seen before in the patent database. But every so often, it's really - REALLY - familiar. And that's because it's one that I issued. Even better is when it's covered in a national medium like a popular magazine...

So, for the first time on GMABC, here's one of my own little patent babies, as touted by my boys over at Men's Journal, US Patent 8360082. This one took a lot of work to get all the details right before I was able to issue it, so it's especially satisfying.

Redneck Wheelchair

I ran across this one and to be honest, was shocked that I hadn't seen something like it before.

I present... The Redneck Wheelchair (aka Boudreau's pride and joy), US Patent 4575113

See, what it is, is... A lawn chair with wheels so Grampy can get around the trailer as quick as a greased gopher!