New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-09

,,, y, has n bright idea hestates
q long time before he makes UP us i'in" " "'s
$50 or 800 IL costs to SET the P'en -, ,,,,,,, :.
tbon believes capitalists are going TO tnro" .,'nos a.
Linn for share OF 10. large proporUo" - '' ''"n,
uscfu! patents are for little Improvements o o'
things by tho manufacturer or nus "oFho"' W '''"o
mean ,,o t.,os hls dcvee to the manufacture These
,."..'.s ILL., better the device the same
prce OR make it as good at less cost Tow years ago
be cranpers became much exasperated agahst patents
There was probably good deal OF shaf pl'"uce Dy
saIosrnen which stirred up the- wratb Incy were
specially cxasperated about the driven-" "u paro'o
wire patents. They forgot tnat tncy 'oto ''ot COM
PEELED to use those things and they w'''u no. na'o
wanted TO use them II they had not p.n ''uiy "u
vantageous Wel they hired lawyc rom onicaSo
TO come here and go before the senap Committee oh
Patents to try and break up the whon p'."s -
The committee gave him hearing au't no "'i'eu
Iearnedly As an example he took aharNs'cr ninu
featured by wcllknown firm and pohteupu' ui's "i0
machine was advertised being coyerd some lorty
patents In the first place, he @idi tnere e cl
not be forty lawful patents on the ny n'"o ,.. W.
he said So so was low estimate 4 ''ya A..
each patent Thus 1t appeacs, said Pc .". s"o
Door farmer who buys this MACHINE 1e",es -.
OF 500 in royalties over and above ia.i p''U M.
the machine. which / suppose is VI " ~
attorney for the manufacturers. VINO fippone" " ~
present interrupted the speech by ofll"s " o.pp'
any number OF the machines at $Oo, ~" 81
count for cash; and when his turn cys ne !.
his offer 10 the committee 1t Seequ '''' ii"'' "
the forty patents were on saving II .ns
improved wrist pin saved 100 cents n"'"''0
cane saved 20 cents one or two rr'Nenieh.' '",eu
a dollar o. two each, and all toiQneS paa D'o.s'
the price from 1925 down to $50 fna Oc''cr h"oino
and paid, besides q fair nanuiacf"' p''i'' '0e
think like 10 cents a patent, or vi "ia'"N'' -
inventors royalties. 1870. o,,ou
"By the way, inventors coyalLs arc ltseS o'''
estimated Ten per cent ON COST very pc"'s.
man who gets 10 cents EACH oi" POPULAR ''"e
machine, or bicycle, or gum mas pre''y so'u
thing. -,,.,, ..v,ou
"what are the most profitable F'eh.lonS
1 suppose the telephone beats q"h all ior oash io
turns. l ascribe success or fapi NUN Hio'o nv
auentIy to business managomenYiai " .l'o hoi' y.
dcmert Of the Invention Inc "epnpio uu "o. ~
promising. 1 could have bough1' pretty so'u ~
at the start for 81 ,000-enough nave in"uo io ",'
times millionaire now PeriA' uuii ""'' w -
money | know didn't haT the cohhuehoo' ~
happened this way was Youhs ASSISTANT LIN
incr In the Patent Office WHO the tihhs was liz liz
brought. 1t was the talkngteiegrapn Inen. in'
Commissioner Of Patents, Genefi Lees'''' my i"n
ate chief Professor E. H. Kng1 VINO was INC auino "
tho best dictionary OF mecnafes cHIl pun .,S aonn a
Ar' osoTiI, a. ~ INV countr had been out To SEQ
some experiment with Gray SteIePnoh11 oohno1 hour
hack and chatted about 1t dFllg lle intTac to
In their Judgment was a. S9dSg sGSnS So
ac,l coege 10 show the mTvels OF electricity Dui,
thev said :Bsiness will neve be cone by te.esraP'
which makes no record. 'uSlnoS' "'A-
Now this was the CANDID opinion OF three rec Ic
ablest men In America. is any WQlnes nc. IL
of the rest Of us shoot wide estimating inc pr'pOI'
value of inventions ProbsE & myrnto s aid to
cess has been as profitable " tno i n,'or s,atsd
the world as any English mention Be,seIner sSv 10
recently that he started to make NC lnVGoh w ri
great advantage Of knowing nothing SoGu. MI
ness. 1t isn'G every man, wen though ne ne pITS
bralny, who can succeed m a. NV NV n.ndp
but some do. There n Cromwell inc PPSt
folder man. who was btleve sao ,0t ana h mex NN
next TO nothing about prning or paper uhti nc Vo
hold with Hoe Il Co. and made their press do almost
everything about a newspaper but read the he"' u
you" -, .n -. tho automatic
cutoff arrangement which made the Zallsky uy % ~
gun or tube success, AMI he now OWNS IIe ls' ~ ~
make the gun in caibres u three inches ana lgss'
was at his suggestion that Lieutenant ZanhSnyd n
took special interest in the subject OIL tro"Hs " ~
mite or nitro glycerine by ar pressure