Patent: Anti-Eating Face Mask

Patent Number/filing date: 434424, filed in 1980

Having trouble losing weight because you can’t stop eating? Well, instead of learning some will power or eating less fatty foods, try the anti-eating face mask! No, this isn’t a joke. The anti-eating face mask is a cup shaped apparatus that is placed over your mouth and chin. It is made with a hard material with breathing slits. Its purpose is to make you less likely to eat anything in front of you because you have something over your mouth preventing you from eating it. It probably doesn’t come as a shock to you that this didn’t fly in the consumer market. After all, what’s preventing you from simply taking off the silly thing? Actually, a better question is, why would you be seen wearing it in the first place?