Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-03-02

what follows and you may see way 10 doit.
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. 1t has handled thous-
ands OF applications for inventions, but it
would like to handle thousands more There
| 10 plenty of inventive talent at large in this
| country, needing nothing but encouragement
to produce practical results. That encour-
| agement the Press Claims Company pro-
poses to give.
NOI so BARD As IT SEEMS
A patent strikes most people aDpall-
ngly formidable thing. The idea is that an
inventor must be natural genius, like Edi-
son Bell; that he must devote years to
delvng in complicated mechanical problems
and that he must spend fortune on delicate
experiments before he can get new devics
| to paten table degree of perfection. THIS
| delusion the company desires to dispel II
desires to get into the head of the public
| clear comprehension OF the fact that it is
not the great complex and expensive in
ventons that bring this best returns to their
authors, but the little, simple, aud cheap
one-the things that absurdly
trivial that the average citizen would feel
somewhat ashamed of bringing the IN to the
| attention of the Patent Office.
| Edison says that the profits he has re-
ceived from the patents on all his marvellous
| inventions have not been sufficient to pay
the cost of his experiments. But the man
who conceived the idea of fastening bit of
| rubber cord to a chd's ball, SO that it
would come back to the hand when thrown,
made fortune out of his scheme Iha
modern sewing machine is a miracle Of in
genuity-the product Of the toll OF hundreds
of busy brains through hundred and fifty
| years but the whole brilliant result rests
upon the simple device of putting the eye
| nj ha NADIA n tha mint ina ~ ut
other end.
TIE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST VAL
| LIABLE.
Comparatively lew people regard them
selves as inventors, bat almost every body
has been struck, at one time or another,
with ideas that seemed calculated to reduce
some OF the little frictions of life. Usually
such ideas are dismissed without further
thought
"Why don't the railroad company mako
its car windows so that they can be slid up
and down without breaking the passengers
backs" exclaims the traveller. IF | we're
running the road | would make them in
such way
"What was the man that made this sauce
pan thinking of:' grumbes the cook"
"He never had to work over a stove or he
would have known how it ought to havs
been fixed"
. Hang such collar button ~ growls the
man who is late for breakfast. 'lf | were
in the business Ia make buttons that
wouldn't slip out, or break of, gougs
out the back of my neck. ="
And then the various sufferers forget
about their grievances and begin to think of
something else. If they would sit down at
the next convenient opportunity, put their
IDEAS about windows, ssucepans, and
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then apply for patents, they might find
themselves as Independently wealthy as the
man who invented the iron umbrella ring,
or the one who patented the fifteen puzzle.
TEMPTING OFFER
To induce people to keep track of their
bright ideas and see~what there is in them,
the Press Claims Company has resolved 70
offer prize.
To the person lrho submits to il the
simplest and most promising inrention,
from commercial poili Of rie'c, tie conn
pang ,cW gire t,centy.frs handred dollars
in cash, IN addition to ret,mdtag the
fees for securing the patent.
II ,cW also udrcrtise the iarcution free
of charge.
Thi, offer is subjec. to the following con-
dtions
Every competitor must obtain a patent
for his invention through the company. He
must first apply for preliminary search,
the cost of which will be five dollars.
Should this search show his invention to be
unpatentable. he can withdraw without
further expense. Otherwise he will be ex.
pected to complete his application and take
out a patent in regular way. The total ex-
pense including Government and Bureau
fees, viii be seventy dollars. For this,
whether he secures the pri2s not the in
ventor will have patent that ought to he
a valuable property to him. The prize Will
be awarded 10y jury consisting OF three
reputable patent attorneys Of Washington.
Intending competitors should fill out ths
, following blank, and forward it with their
applications
"-., 1893
81 submit the within described invention
in competition for the Twenty-Five Hun
bred Dollar Prize offered by the Press
Claims Company.
no BLANKS IN THIS COMPETITION
This is a competition OF rather an un-
usual nature. 1t Is common TO offer prizes
for the best story, or picture, or architec'
tural plan, all the competitors rishing tds
loss OF their labor and the successful one
merely selling his for the amount OF tina
prize. But tue Press Claims Company's
offer is something entirely different. Zach
person is asked merely 10 hep himself, and
the one who helps himself to the best nd
vantage is to be rewarded for doing 1t.
The prizo is only II stimulus TO do some.
thing that would be well worth doing with.
out it. The architect whose competitive
plan for a club house on certain corner ia
not accepted has spent mis- labor on some-
thing of very little use TO him. But tha
person who patents simple aud useful de-
=. vice in the Press Clsima Company's COM
n petition, need not worry il he fails to So
cure the prize. He has a substantial result
|, to show for his work-one that will COM
c mand its value in the market at any time.