Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-06-25

Patent Lawyers Who Make a Go"d Dea
of Money Numerou. Patents for Rail
road Invention, A List of Queer Pat
ents Perpetual Motion.
The extent OF the WORK OF the patent OF
ice is wonderful, ami it increases every
year" said gentleman standing very higt
III the patent office There were >,UUJ more
patents granted last year than there were
tn years ago, and the applc catlons fllcd fOi
patents last year numbered .Lp,UUL The pat
ent office l. the only office Of the govern
ment, | think, that more than pays ITS OK
penSes Ii has a surplus OF over s!,Hn, ,OJJ
in the treasury department, and it made a
clear : ~, 90 above ali It's expense, last
year"
do inventors generally make money out
Of patent,,7
No aS rule the money i male by poo
pie who buy or swIndle the invent Drs out
of their rights In 5entors are nearly always
poor mon They work their brains IoT
III .ir bread and butter They are vision
AIRY set o. fellows, ami have not the money
making sense. They get in with business
Inen IN order TO develop their patents, All
these euchre them out OF their pronta The
man " no invented the elevated railroad /.
New \ oTk died "A p,'Or man, and while b.
Was alive the people iauS he'd at his idea II
Is so with nun IredS OF other pa ents, ami II
you viii look over the Listor, OF the patent
Oinoe you Will find 1t Is the business men
who make the money, while the inventor,
do the work
Some patent lawyers make a great dea
OF money, and there are "A number III Wash
ft,trf ,Rh. hU., .t,R.,- 81,
practice There is man here who ha,
made a fortune in the Patent law. tie haI
something TO do with the Goody ear rubi,er
patent ami he has been Lru,perIng ever
since, lie owns II fine mansion on Seven
teenth street, and tried the experiment ON,
time of maNlng stable for his horses in til,
basement All the modern improvements
however, in the shape OF water would not
do away with the smell, and he finally gave
it up as a bad Joa. Many patent lawyers
when they see that man has a good thing
contract with INN to get out his patent Tor
Il certain amount OF money and some share,
in the stock OF the patent They get paid
Tor their work with the money and have d
fair chance OF making u fortune out OF the
patent II II turn, out veil here are hun
dreds of patent lawyers in Washington
them are making money.
NUMERDU> KAiLnOAD PATENTS
Il see they talk about having cable street
railroads here Is there much advance
ment in this line of pateIts"
y eS indeed there Is a great deal The
cable road is a co uparativeIy recent inven
ton, and there are hundreds of patents
tiled for grips and other things connected
Npu yKpIlf l.aS N In,
how many patents are applied for rail
road inventions New ideas for rails
switches, and ties are being put forward
every day. The railroad tie of the future
Is Yet TO be pat MED 1t re Iuires very good
hard wool to make JIe and this class 0.
WOO is being fas. cut cut Of the country.
Railroad building has reached such point
that there is not enough wood To supply the
ties, and new invention has got TO be
made. There are now something un ler
5OU,Uu miles Of railroad in the world, and
about l2U,U miles of these are III the
nited States Ties wear out, and the
time will come when there will BE- no wood
10 replace them We have already patents
given out on glass ties, ties OF iron, and ties
made Of paper ami wood pulp Another set
OF articles that has been patented largely OF
late years in fences and fence post The
Old wooden fence has seen its bestS days
and the wire fence is rapidly taking it,
place"
A great many inventors devote them.
selves solely 10 making patents for kitchen
utensils, and other work upon machines re
LatIng entirely to water. A great many OF
the railroads and machine shops and Iacto
ries Of various kinds keep inventors who
do nothing e.se but wOrk upon the special
ties of the factories in which they are EN-
ploysL Women make a great many patents
but those deal chiefly with household mat
'erS or with their own work. 1 here has
teen a great deal of electrical invent on
during the past few years, and it is per
fectly wonderful how rapidly patents com
in after any success in any artIcular
branch of invention A great accident al.
ways brings in patents to prevent its occur,
renee in the future, and when big fire oc-
ours at any of the biz hotels with grert
loss Of life the fire escapes Ioll in by the
hunlreds
Have yoU many patents for perpetual
notion
Yes, hundreds are applied for, but they
are not granted | remember one a man
walkel from kentucky TO Washington Il
patent perpetual motion, and one OF your
ohio newspaper men, not long ago, tele-
graped to the Associated Press that the in
v-ntion of perpetual motion had at last been
conceived somewhere in Ohio | should
think that Washington would be a good place
for an in entor to work BY going to the pat
ent office he could see all that had a ready
been done in the line upon which he was WORK
ing, and he might see where a cog here and d
[ Wheal thara Wouli L soma tani
which would then be worth tens OF thou
sands Of dollars where it is now worth moth
ing. "-"Carps Letter in Cleveland Lsad,r
MUST THE HEADLIGHT GO!