“Ice Cream Stick Research” (read the article free, here online) is a featured article in the special ICE CREAM issue (volume 28, number 1) of the magazine, Annals of Improbable Research.
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Ice Cream Stick Production Tradeoff
Tradeoffs vex the production of even the most pleasure-producing products, such as ice-cream-on-a-stick treats. This study studies some of those tradeoffs: “Energy and Economic Analysis of Ice Cream Stick Production with Brine Tank Machine,” Riswanti Sigalingging and Lukman Adlin Harahap, Researchers World, vol. 2, no. 3, 2011. The authors, at the University of North Sumatra, […]
The Nutty Ice Cream Stick Machine Patent
The Nutty Ice Cream Stick Machine patent is now more than 60 years old: “Ice Cream Stick Machine,” William A. Nutty, U.S. Patent 2,866,420, issued December 30, 1958. The inventor, in Chicago, Illinois, explains (in the patent): This invention relates to a method and apparatus for forming an ice cream novelty, and more particularly to […]
The Three Legged Pogo Stick (an abandoned patent)
If you’re an enthusiast of Pogo Sticks, you may have been wondering whatever happened to the 2002 US patent application from inventors John Hackworth, Kirk Hackworth and Mark Soderberg for their tripodic Pogo Device . “A more stable pogo stick device, which may or may not be steerable, employs multiple spring legs, at least one […]
