The Opelousas courier., 1893-11-11
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get Twenty-Five Hun.
dred Dollars for Nothing.

The Winner has a Clear Gift of &
Small Fortune, and the Losers
Have Patents that may.
Bring them in Still .
More.
Would you like to make twenty-five hun
dollars If yOn would, read carefully what
follows and you may see "A way to do 1t. =,
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. 1t has handled thous-
ands of applications for inventions, but 1t
would like to handle thousands more. There
is plenty of inventive talent at large III tins
country, needing nothing but encouragement
to produce practical results. That encourage
mcni the Press Claims Company proposes to
give.
NOT SO HARD AS 1T SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people as an APP
pallinglv formidable thing. The idea is that
an inventor must be a natural genius, like
Edison or Bell that he must devote years to
deIving in complicated mechanical problems
and that he must spend IL fortune on delicate
experiments before he can get a new device
to a patentable degree of perfection. This
delusiOn the company desires to dispel. 1t
desires to get into the head of the public a
clear comprehension of the fact that it is not
the great, complex, and expensive inventions
that bring the best returns to their authors,
but the little, simple and cheap ones-the
things that seem so absurdly trivial that the
average citizen would feel somewhat ashamed
of bringing them to the attention of the
Patent Office.
Edison says that the profits he has received
from the patents on all his marvellous inven.
lions have not been sufficient to pay the cost
OF biz experiments But the man who con
reived the idea of fastening a bit Of rubber
cord To Il childs bail. 40 that 1t would come
back to the hand wien thrown, made IA for
time ont of his scheme. The modern sewing
machine is a miracle of ingennity-the pro
duct of the toll of hundreds Of busy brains
through a hundred and fifty wears, but the
whole brilliant result rest upon the simple
device of putting the eye OF the needle at tn"
point instead of at the other end.
THE LITTLE THINGS III MOST VALU-
ABLE.
Comparatively few people regard them
selves as inventors, hut almost everybody has
been struck, at one time or another, with
ideas that seemed calculated to reduce some
of the little trictlons OF life. Usually such
ideas are dismissed without further thought.
why don't the railroad company make its
car windows so that they can he slid up and
down without breaking the passengers
backs eXciaimS the traveller. If | were
running the road l would make them in such
a way
What WAS the man that made this sauce
pan UNI VI Fl - ii'fi' II NoOh- i J
never had Ia work over a stove, or he would
have known how it ought To have been
fixed"
Hang such "A collar button - growIs the
man who is late for breakfast. IF | were in
the business I'll make buttons that w0nidn't
out, or brea@otf, or g0uge ont the back
of my neck
Aud then the various sufferers forget about
their grievances and begin to thiuk of some
thing else. If they would sit down at the
next convenient opportunity, put their ideas
about CAT windows, saucepans, and collar
buttons into practical shape, and then apply
for patents, they might find themselves as
wealthy as the man who in
the iron umbrella ring, or the one
who patented the fifteen puzzle.
a TEMPTING OFFER
To induce people to keep track of their
bright ideas and see what there is in them,
he Press Claims Company has resolved to
,tfer IA prize.
To the person who submits to it the
simplest and most promising inven-
ion. from a commercial point of view,
he company will give twenty-five
hundred dollars in cash, in addition to
-efunding the fees for securing the
1t will also sdvertise the invention
of charge.
This offer is subject to the following condi
Every competitor must obtain a patent for
lis invention through the company. He must
apply for preliminary search, the cost of
which will he five dollars, Should this search
how his invention to be nnpatentahle, he can
withdraw without further expense. Other
he will lie expected to complete his APP
a"d rake ont a patent in the regular r
The total expense, including Govern :
lent and Bureau fees, will be seventy dol !
ars. For this, whether he secures the prize
r not, the inventor will have a patent that
ught to he a valuable property to him. The
rize will he awarded by IA jury consisting of
hree reputable attorneys Of Washington.
Intending competitors should fill ont the fol
blank, and onward it with their appli-
alton:
- | submit the within described invention +