Historic Patents Celebrating the New Year

US Patent Number 5,339,741 / August 23, 1994:

Precision Fireworks Display System Having a Decreased Environmental Impact: “A system and method for launching projectiles, such as fireworks projectiles, which explode in the air into a pyrotechnic display. The explosive additive causes the exploded particles to be rapidly burned and consumed to form lightweight, inert flakes that fall harmlessly to the ground.”

Fun fact: Disney Patented Precision Firework Displays.



US Patent Number 5,352,148 / October 4, 1994:

A shape to confetti which creates a new dramatic and spectacular matter of creating a visual display such as an indoor firework. The invention provides a “novel shape of confetti such that the individual pieces float and flutter as they fall to the ground thereby doubling or tripling the hang time during which they are in the air.” 

Fun Fact: This year, 2,000 pounds of confetti descended on Times Square to ring in the new year made from wished written on post-its comprised of people's wished from the NYE Wishing Wall in New York City.



US Patent Number: 1,923,091 / August 22,1933: The foil seal/cage on top of the cork:

“Invention relates to closures for bottles and the like, and contemplates an arrangement in which there is a primary closure that is effective to seal the container hermetically; and an ancillary or secondary closure that covers the primary closure, protects the external portions of the bottle adjacent the mouth against contamination, serves as a sanitary partial closure after the primary closure has been removed and where all the contents of the bottle are not to be used immediately; and gives a finished appearance to the complete package.”

Patent Number: 6,260,989 B1 / July 17, 2001:

The invention “discloses an illuminated celebratory device having a confetti blower housing with LED digital display and other visual and sound effects mounted on top of a vertically standing pole having tracks thereon upon which a movable ball is slidably mounted. The ball also has digital displays and lamps thereon. The pole is mounted on a base stand. In operation, at a predetermined time, the ball begins its descent from atop the pole and as it descends pole lamps illuminate and the LED's show the appropriate time. When the ball reaches its destination at the bottom of pole, the LED's indicate the appropriate time and all celebratory features of the device activate.”



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