Old oil drums will be one of the more traditional musical instruments at
London’s Notting Hill Carnival this weekend. But Deborah and Timothy Sadler are
trying to patent a new use for old oil drums—this time as trendy kitchen
furniture (GB 2356802). They cut oval openings in the sides of a drum to create
storage space, fix a wooden chopping board to the top and put castors on the
bottom, so the whole thing is mobile. “Furniture embodying the invention has a
striking, unusual appearance,” say the Sadlers of their “kitchen island
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