Buckminster Fuller - Patents

Patents

(from the Table of Contents of Inventions: The Patented Works of R. Buckminster Fuller (1983) ISBN 0-312-43477-4)

• 1927 U.S. Patent 1,633,702 Stockade: Building Structure
• 1927 U.S. Patent 1,634,900 Stockade: Pneumatic Forming Process
• 1928 (Application Abandoned) 4D House
• 1937 U.S. Patent 2,101,057 Dymaxion Car
• 1940 U.S. Patent 2,220,482 Dymaxion Bathroom
• 1944 U.S. Patent 2,343,764 Dymaxion Deployment Unit (sheet)
• 1944 U.S. Patent 2,351,419 Dymaxion Deployment Unit (frame)
• 1946 U.S. Patent 2,393,676 Dymaxion Map
• 1946 (No Patent) Dymaxion House (Wichita)
• 1954 U.S. Patent 2,682,235 Geodesic Dome
• 1959 U.S. Patent 2,881,717 Paperboard Dome
• 1959 U.S. Patent 2,905,113 Plydome
• 1959 U.S. Patent 2,914,074 Catenary (Geodesic Tent)
• 1961 U.S. Patent 2,986,241 Octet Truss
• 1962 U.S. Patent 3,063,521 Tensegrity
• 1963 U.S. Patent 3,080,583 Submarisle (Undersea Island)
• 1964 U.S. Patent 3,139,957 Aspension (Suspension Building)
• 1965 U.S. Patent 3,197,927 Monohex (Geodesic Structures)
• 1965 U.S. Patent 3,203,144 Laminar Dome
• 1965 (Filed – No Patent) Octa Spinner
• 1967 U.S. Patent 3,354,591 Star Tensegrity (Octahedral Truss)
• 1970 U.S. Patent 3,524,422 Rowing Needles (Watercraft)
• 1974 U.S. Patent 3,810,336 Geodesic Hexa-Pent
• 1975 U.S. Patent 3,863,455 Floatable Breakwater
• 1975 U.S. Patent 3,866,366 Non-symmetrical Tensegrity
• 1979 U.S. Patent 4,136,994 Floating Breakwater
• 1980 U.S. Patent 4,207,715 Tensegrity Truss
• 1983 U.S. Patent 4,377,114 Hanging Storage Shelf Unit