{"id":218,"date":"2006-04-11T08:24:06","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T13:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2006-04-11T08:24:06","modified_gmt":"2006-04-11T13:24:06","slug":"flatus-apparatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Flatus apparatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying very hard to avoid regurgitating content from other blogs but I couldn&#8217;t help myself in this case: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/04\/10\/patent_for_fartpower.html\">a post on boingboing<\/a> about a fart-powered missile launcher:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTo operate the assembly, the player who may be fully clothed places the inlet of the tube with its valve open adjacent his anal region from which a colonic gas is discharged. The piston is then withdrawn to a degree producing a negative pressure to inhale the gas into the combustion chamber to intermix with the air therein to create a combustible mixture. The ignitor is then activated to explode the gas in the chamber and fire the missile into space.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So since I have no real direction in life, I thought I&#8217;d contribute to their post by extracting the original patent&#8217;s images from the US Patent Office&#8217;s website, whose document image system is very cumbersome to deal with.  Highlights:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/crackbaby\/fartpatent1.jpg\" title=\"fartpatent1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: thin solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/crackbaby\/fartpatent3.jpg\" alt=\"fartpatent3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/crackbaby\/fartpatent2.jpg\" title=\"fartpatent2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: thin solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/crackbaby\/fartpatent4.jpg\" alt=\"fartpatent4.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It must be fun to work at the patent office sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the full page extracts of the original patent:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/crackbaby\/fartpatentpagecover.jpg\">Cover<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/crackbaby\/fartpatentpage12.jpg\">Pages 1 and 2<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/crackbaby\/fartpatentpage34.jpg\">Pages 3 and 4<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/crackbaby\/fartpatentpage56.jpg\">Pages 5 and 6<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying very hard to avoid regurgitating content from other blogs but I couldn&#8217;t help myself in this case: a post on boingboing about a fart-powered missile launcher: To operate the assembly, the player who may be fully clothed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=218\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-meaningless","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}