Glass cutter wheels mounted in a notch instead of a fork, and a bevel-edged on one side only. Then you wouldn’t have to allow for the offset of the cut.
By A.Vena, Philadelphia.
July 1961
You can purchase glass cutting wheels from Amazon…
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Abrasive tape backed with a pressure-sensitive adhesive. You could wrap it around a rod or any other handy object to sand those hard-to-manage pieces.
By John Lubin, New York City.
July 1961
You can purchase abrasive tape from Amazon…
Highway divider stripes colored to tie in with route numbers. How easy it would then be for a driver to follow his color line through a maze of city streets!
By Lloyd Smith, Elmira, New York.
July 1961
A file shaped like a gullet on a circular saw blade. That way you could avoid the nicks and notches that spoil the contour after a few sharpenings.
By Carl Bombard, Holyoke, Mass.
July 1960
Buy yourself a brand new circular saw from Amazon!
Rotary-mower air filters at the top of a tubular handle. Placement far from the discharge chute should eliminate clogging and carburetor trouble.
By E.Dodd, Middletown, N.J.
July 1960
You can purchase lawn-mower filters from Amazon…
Throw-away bottles and jars with some salvage value. Squared off like milk cartons, they’d stack to form glass-brick room dividers or garden screens.
By S.Levine, Oakdale, New York.
July 1960
Not quite glass bricks, but you can purchase waterproof stained glass brick pattern film from Amazon…
Disposable car seat covers for riders in beach or work clothes. Made of waterproof paper or thin plastic, they’d be sold by vending machines at gas stations.
By R.C.Miller, Santa Monica
July 1960
You can purchase disposable car seat covers from Amazon…
Rooftop swimming pools on garages. This way it would be impossible for children to stray into them (any exterior stairs would be removable) and they wouldn’t rob garden space.
By Koriun Nigian, Los Angeles.
July 1960
You can purchase a portable swimming pool from Amazon…
Ribbon-renewing rollers on typewriters. As the ribbon fed through, it would be re-inked and never need replacement until the fabric was worn.
By John Ryder, Little Falls, N.J.
July 1959
Nursing and care homes constantly struggle with providing evidence of regular checks on the elderly to check they are alive. My idea is to create a barcode that fades if the body becomes cold.
This would allow a carer to scan the individual and provide a record of these checks. If the person has died the barcode will not be visible and thus the carer will not be able to successfully scan the individual.
By Richard Gilliard, Leeds, UK
You can purchase a bar code scanner from Amazon by clicking on the image below! (affiliate link)
