Hello and welcome to the SciShow Tangents Patreon bonus episode for all of our lovely Patreon patrons. Thank you for supporting what we do.

And this week on the SciShow Tensions Patreon patron bonus podcast bonus podcast. Bebe-be-Boo-Boo-Bee, yeah, we've got something that Sarah's planning on doing, and I don't know what it is. Sam doesn't know either. It's a secret. I can write a game. Yeah, I did get a document in my email that said, don't open this. You're allowed to open it now. Okay. Yeah, you can open it. What the heck? This is involved. This game is called patently obvious. Okay. And here's how it works. I will give you an image from a US patent along with the name of an inventor and the year it was patented and that's what's in

the secret doc. And because this is an audio medium, I will also give an image description,

also because I can always be practicing my alt tech skills.

Yep. Then you two discuss based on logic or wild speculation what you think this invention

was for. Whoever gets closest gets a point and

whoever gets the most points wins. All right. There are five of them. That sounds great.

Patent 1 is by Virgil A. Gates in 1876. And the image you're seen, the image labeled

Figure 2 is a sketch of a narrow, curved, and concave shield that was intended to be made of a material like vulcanized rubber or metal.

There is an elastic cord attached to each of the two ends and a loop at the end of each elastic cord.

What is this invention for?

That's got for people that got under bites. You yank the bites. It goes around your ears.

That goes around your chin. The curved, vulcanized rubber goes around your little chinny chin chin.

And then that elastic yanks yanks your drawback into place. It's not, is it going to work? No.

That's not how jaws work.

But that's what it was. Your ears would totally not be strong enough to handle that.

Or is it for keeping people quiet? Does the yank in their mouths shut? No, you can't talk. You're not allowed to talk anymore.

Or for biters to stop the, stop the biting children from doing all of the biting.

That seems like the most logical explanation to me. I don't, or for protecting your teeth from something. Maybe it's an early mouth guard for sports activities.

Maybe it's an early mouth guard. And that thing goes, I don't know why they thought. Yeah, it like goes between your teeth and your teeth and you can chew oh or maybe you that's for like anesthetic when they're like chopping your leg off they wrap it around your ears and that way the stick doesn't come out of your mouth and you chew on the rubber I feel like the I feel like the around your ears part is really that's tripping me up a lot

because it seems like you can just put some rubber in somebody's mouth. But this guy's amputated a lot of legs and sometimes it falls out. And then you're like, I can't go pick up his rubber right now. I'm busy song. I'm halfway through a leg. Okay. I'm going to go with my sports mouth guard theory though. You're going to go a sports guard? Okay. Yeah.

I'm going to stick with underbite.

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