The state herald. (Holyoke, Logan County, Colo.) 1887-1921, 1893-08-25
ON PATENTS
HOW TO GET TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED DOL
lars FOR NOTHING.
Tho Winner has Cloar Gift of Small
fortuut,, aud tho Losers Have
Patents that may Bring them In
Etill More.

Wouldyou like to make twenty-five hundred
doilars1 If you would, read carefully what fol-
lows and you mny SEQ way to do II.
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. 1t has handled thousands
of applications for inventions. but It wsuld
like to handle thousands more. There Is plenty.
OF inventive talent at large in this country
needing nothing but encouragement to p,otluco
practical results Tint encourage nent the Press
Claims Company proposes to give.
Not NO Hard az II seems.
patcnt strikes most people ms nm appallingly
formidable thing, The idca is that an inventor
must BIO natural genius, like Edison or Boil;
that he must devote years to delving In compiled.
ted mechanical problems and that he must spend
fortune on delicate experiments before no can
geta new device to apatentable degree Of pcrfcc-
ton. This dclusion the company desires to dispcl
1t dcsircst to get into tho head the public clear
comprehension Of the fnct that 1t is not tho great
complex, md expensive inventions that bring
the best returns to their authors, but the little,
simple. md cheap ones-thc things that seem 30
absurdly trivial that the nvcrogs citizen would
feel somewhat ashamed Of bringing them to the
attention of the Patent Office.
Edison says that the profits he Inns received
from the patents on his marvellous inventions
have not been sufficient to pay the cost of his ex.
perimcnts. But the man who conceived tho idea
Of fastening bit Of rubber cord to child's ball,
80 that 1t would came back to tho hand when
thrown, made fortune out Of his scheme. The
modern sewing -machino is u miracle of ingenuity
the product Of the toll Of hundreds Of busy
brains through n hundred and fifty years. but the
whole brilliant result rests upon the simple de.
vice of putting the eye OF the needle at the poin
instead of mt tho other end.
me Sittic Ihings the Most valuable.
comparatively lew people regard themselves
as inventors but almost everybody has been
struck, nj one time or another, with ideas that
seemed calculated to reduce some of tho little
'rcti"ns oil NE. Usually such ideas arc dismissed
without further thought
why don't tho railroad company make its
chr windows no that they can be slid up and down
without breaking the passengers backsi' OK
claims tho traveller. "lf were running the road
would make them in such way"
h"' WAS the man that made this saucepan
,h'hkiiisotf gruinb'es the cook. HE ncverh had
!" work over stove. or he would have known
now !" o"fh' TO nave been txed.'
hahs such a collar bntton!' growls the man
VINO Is late Tor breakfast. IF were in the bust
ness ID make buttons that wouldn't slip out, or
break oil, or sougc ont the back Of my neck
And then the various sufferers forget about
Their Grievances and begin to think Of something
else. II thcy would sit down at the next conyen-
iehtopportnnity. put their ideas about car win
aows' sancenans' and collar buttons into practi'
cai shnpe' and then apply Tor patents, they might
hhu themselves Us Independently wealthy ns the
man VINO invented the iron umbrella ring, Or the
one who patented the fifteen puzzle.
n tempting Offer.
To iniucc people to keep tack Of their bright
ideas and sec whn, there is in them. the Press
Chains Connnpy has ,,soI,o,, ~, o,T.r -.