Patent Room

A design for a store front or the like. We're not sure what the pig has to do with the design. This could easily be turned into a goat parlor, chicken parlor, ... 1931. Invented by Truman B. Buchanan.

The Trylon and Perisphere were built as the central structures of the 1939 New York World's Fair and housed the "Democracity" diorama. A ramp, called the Helicline, connected the two structures. 1937. Invented by Wallace K. Harrison and Jacques Andre Fouilhoux.

A midway design for an amusement park building. 1930. Invented by Emil C. Hoppe.

A dispensing stand for orange soda assigned to the Orange Crush Company of Chicago. 1928. Invented by Joseph B. Benge.

An office building of Texas design made to look like an oil derrick. 1934. Invented by Luther B. Robertson.

A novelty rocket building for a vendor. 1956. Invented by Theodore L. Beach, Jr.

Frozen custard is an adaptation of a French vanilla ice cream recipe that features high quality ingredients, including egg. To complete the winter theme of this frozen custard shop, "the four walls of the building are covered with composition plaster, substantially sprinkled with flaked mica." 1932. Invented by Cecil Turner and Ray Turner.

A store front design for the Nip & Sip diner. 1933. Invented by Alexander W. Porter.

A building design for The White Castle System of Eating Houses Corporation, Wichita, Kansas. 1934. Invented by Norman J. Schlossman and John Demuth.

A refreshment bar that would fit in at a Masonic lodge. 1937. Invented by Jean Brown Richardson.