The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-11-17
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
HOW TO GET TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED
DOLLARS FOR NOTHING.
The Winner has Clear Gift Of Small
Fortune, and the Losers Have Patents
2 that NAV Rrino them in Still More.


Would YOU like to make twenty-five
hundred dollars? If you would, read
arefully what follows and you may see
a way tn do it:
The Press Claims Company dcvotes
much attention tn patents. 1t has
handled thousands of applications for in
yentinns. but it would like tn handle
thousands more. There is plenty OF in
vent.ve talent at large in this country,
needing nothing but couragement To
produce practical results. That encour-
agement the Press Claims Company pro-
| poses tn give.
NOT so HARD AS 1T SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people rs an APP |
! pallinglv formidable thing. The idea Is
4 that an inventor must be II natural genius !
like Edison ar Bell; that he must devote |
Years tu dcl,lng in complicated mecham-
cal prublems. and that he must spend
fortune On delicate experiments before
he calI ptt new device to pateutaule
d., .rrep at perfection. This delusiun the
company desires to dispel. 1t desires to
yet into the head of the public clear
comprehension of the fact that it is not
the great complex and expensive inven-
lions that bring the best returns to thtlr
authors, but the little, simple and cheap
nnes-rhe things that seem so absurdiy
trivial that the average citizen wonld feel
,mewhat ashamed of bringing them To
the attention of the Patent Office.
Edison says that the profits he has re-
ceIyed from the patents on all his mar
velous inventions have not been sufh-
cient to pay the cost of his experiments.
But the man who conceived the idea of
| fastening a rubber cord to n ball, so that
! IL would come back to the hand when
7 thrown, made fortune out OF his
e scheme. The modern sewing machine is
g = miracle of ingenulty-the product OF
y the toll of many hundreds of busy brains
through hundred and fifty years, but
) the whole brilliant result rests upon the
n simple device of putting the eye OF the
a needle at the point instead of at the other
3, end.
2, THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST VALUABLE
d Comparatively few people regard
t. themselves as inventors, but almost
everybody has been struck. ut one time
% or another, with ideas that seemed calcu
d lated to reduce some of the little fiictions
r. of life. Unusually such ideas are dis
n missed without further thought.
a why don't the railroad company
~ make lis car windows so that they cal
-, - he slid up and down without breakins
=. the passengers backsl" exclaims thu
=. =, traveller. IF / were running the road
nc would make them in such way"
n 'What was the man that made Thu
W saucepan thinking otP" grumbled TIL
cook 'IIe never had to work over
NJ stove, or he would have known how l
rs ought to have been fixed"
NJ "Hang such u collar button!' growl
es the man who is late for breakfast. ~
OF were in the business I'd make button
all that wouldn't slip out, or break of, o
set I,o hArly IF nv mock ~
ct And then the various sufferers forge
mis- about their grievances and begin tn thin
it'll of something else. If they would s.
down at the next convenient opportunii
ks nut their ideas about car windows, sauce
ere mans and collar but'o into practic;
al shape. and then apply for patents, the
10 might find themselves as independent
er, wealthy as the mn who invented III
md iron umbrella ring, or the one VII" pa
DE. entcd the fifteen puzzle.
rst A TEMPTING oFFFR
inn To induce people to keep trick OF me
,ile bright ide?s and see W at there Is
tile them, the Press Claims Company has ]
It'll solved to offer prize.
vas To the person l1ho submits to II The $i'
w., pIpst aud most promising inreHtiOR, fro
ner a commercial punt Of riew, he c%wPd'
- DjH gire twenty-five hundred dOUdrs
Inc
20 securing the patent.
,n " 1t riU also adrertiSe the patent free
charge. E.
T. This offer is subject to the follow
III conditions:
IONS Every competitor must obtain pate
ely, for his invention through the compai
out He must first apply for Pieliminaa
the search, the cost of which will be five d
avi- lars. Should this search snow his inv'
very tion to be unpatentabie, lie can vi
pon draw without further expense. OH
und wise he will be expected 10 COMPLETE
into al plcatiOn and take out patent IN
regular way. The total expense, in, j.
inc Government and Bureau fees, Will
seventy doll1rs. For this, whether
+hot secures the prize or not, the Inventor
t anS have patent that ought to be a valma
anu property to him. The prize will
pu!s awarded by jury consisting Of tn
10 70 reputable patent attorneys ct wash
very ton. Intending competitors should
us out the following blank, and forward
with their applications: -
'hese -, --, 1S9;
when CT submit thp within described inv