One of those who heard of Nelson's original 1919 discovery that melted chocolate could be made to adhere to ice cream was Harry Burt, a confectioner and ice cream parlor operator in Youngstown, Ohio. Burt, who had successfully marketed a lollipop called the Good Humor Sucker, was always looking for new ideas, so in 1920 he decided to try to replicate Nelson's feat. After a series of failures, late one night Burt emerged from his hardening room and presented his new ice cream bar to the family to taste. His daughter approved but thought the bar "too messy" and asked why he did not put it on a stick like his famous lollipop. Father Burt went back to the hardening room and tried a new prototype model with a stick in it. A bond was formed by ice crystals interlocking with the wooden handle and it stuck. He immediately applied for a patent on the Good Humor Ice Cream Sucker. Burt liked the name "Good Humor" because it expressed his belief that the humors of the mind were regulated by those of the palate. After three years of waiting, the Good Humor patent had still not come through, so Burt's son, Harry, Jr., was sent to Washington with a five-gallon can of Good Humors which he carried to the Patent Office. Young Harry literally forced his evidence into the mouths of patent officials, who then agreed that it was an original idea and granted the patent.