Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-05-25
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get Twenty i've Hundred
Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner Has q Clear Gift OF q Small
Fortune, and the Losers Have
Patents That Nay Brisg
Them Still More.


Them Still More.
Would you like to make twenty-five
hundred dollars? II you would, read
carefully what follows and you may see
a way to do It.
The Press Claims Company devotcs
much attention to patents. 1t has han
died thousands of applications for inven-
tions, but 1t would like to handle thou
sands more. There is plenty Of inven-
tive talent at large in this country, need.
ing nothing but encouragement to pro-
duce practical results. That encourage
ment the Press Claims Company pro-
poses to give.
NOT so HARD As IT SEEMS.
A patert strikes most people as an
appallingly formidable thing. The idea
is that an inventor must be natural &C.
MUS, like Edison or Bell; that he must
devote years to delving In complicated
mechanical problems and that he must
spend fortune on delicate experiments
before he can get new device to pat
entable degree Of perfection. This delu-
sion the company desires to dispel. 1t
desires to get into tLe head Of the public
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 alb
surdly trivial that the average citizen
would feel somewhat ashamed of bring
Ing them to the attention Of the Patent
Edison says that the profits he has re-
ceived from the patents on all his mar
velous inventions have not been suffl-
cient to pay the cost Of his experiment..
But the man who conceived the idea OF
fastening bit Of rubber cord to child'e
ball, so that 1t would return back to the
hand when thrown. made fortune out
of his scheme. The modern sewing ma
chine Is a miracle Of ingenuity-the pro.
brains through hundred and fifty years
but the whole brilliant result rests upon
the simple device of putting the eye Of
the needle ut the point instead of ut the
other end.
THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST VALUABLE
Comparatively few people regard them.
selves as inventors, but almost every.
body has been struck, at one time OF
another, with ideas that seemed calcu
lated to reduce some OF the little fric
tions of life. Usually such ideas art
dismissed without further thought.
"Why don't the railroad company
make it's car windows so that they cal
be slid up and down without breaking
the passengers backs?" cxclaims tn,
traveller. "If were running the road
would make them in such way"
J "What was the man that made THU
saucepan thinking off" grumbles tn,
cook. "He never had to work over
stove, or he would have known how i
ought to have been fixed."
} Chang such collar button!" growl
the man who is late for breakfast. 81
were in the business I'd make buttons
that wouldn't slip out, or break off, o.
gOuge out the back of my neck"
And then the various sufferers forge
about their grievances and begin to thinl
of something else. If they would 81
put their ideas about car windows, sauce
pans, and collar buttons into practica
shape, and then apply for patents, they
might find themselves rs independently
wealthy as the man who invented TIN
iron umbrella ring, or the one WHIT
patented the fifteen puzzle.
A TEMPTING OFFER.
To induce people to keep track Of thei
bright ideas and see what there is il
them. the Press Claims Company ha
. resolved to offer prize.
To the person ssho submits to !
the simplest and most promising in
veatio's, from a commercial point O
vie,c, the company ,ciA give t,centy
, toe hundred dollars in cash, ~ ad
dition to refanding the fees for secur
ing the patent.
1t sciU also advertise the inven
ton free Of charge.
! This offer is subject to the followin.
, conditions:
Every competitor must obtai6 paten
for his Invention through the company
He must first apply for a preliminary
! search, the cost of which will be five dol
lars. Should this search show his inven
ton to be unpatentable, he can Withdrew
!, without further expense. Otherwise h
will be expected TO complete his applica
ton and take out patent in the regula
] way. The total expense, including gov
. eminent and bureau fees, will be seventy
dollars. For this, whether he secures
the prize or not, the inventor will hav,
: paten. that ought to be n valuabl,
} property to him. The prize will b,
awarded by jury consisting of thre,
reputable patent attorneys Of Washing
ton. Intending competitors should I'll
out the following blank, and forward 1
with their application: ~
= "-7, -, 1898.
81 submit the within described inven
, ton In competition for the Twenty fiv,
! Hundred Dollar Prize offered by tn,
Press Claims Company"
NO BLANKS IN THIS COMPETITION.
, This is competition of rather an un
usual nSturc. IL is common to offel