Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-04-20
PRIZES ON PATENTS,
How to Get Twenty-Five Eup
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner has "a Clo ar Gift OF
Small Fortune, and tho
Losers Have Patents that
May Bring Them in
still More,

Would you like 10 mako twenty-five hun.
dred dollars? If you would, read carefully
what follows and you may see a way to 10 g.
Inc Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. 1t has handled tbous.
snds OF applications for inventions, but il
would like TO handle thousands more There
is plenty Of Inventive talent at large IN this
country, needing nothing but encoursgemont
to produce practical results. That sacour-
egement the Press Claims Company pEo-
poses to give.
NOl SO HARD rs IT SEEAIB.
"A patent strikes nost people es 10 ucali.
ingly formidable thing. The idea is taat an
inventor must bo a natural gonius, hko Edi-
son or Bell; that he must devote years Ia
deiving in complicated mechanical problems
ana thet be must spend fortune on delicate
experiments before he can get q new de vice
to a patentable degree Of perfection Th!s
deiusion the company desires to diarel Ii
desires to get into tue head OF the public q
clear comprehension Of the feet that il ia
not the great comp!sT and expansive In
ventons that bring tbs best returns to beir
authors, but the little, simple, aad cheap
one-tho things that seem 70 absurdl5
trivial that the average citizen would feel
somewhat ashamed OF bringing them to tho
attention of the Patent Office
Edison says that the profits he has ro-
ceived from tho 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 g bit Of
rubber cord to q childs bail 50 that il
would come bnck to the hand when thrown,
made fortune out OF his scheme The
modern sewing machine il a miracle OF in
genuity-the product Of thu toll OF hand reds
of busy brains through hundred and fifty
years, but the whole brilliant result res;a
upon the simple device Of putting the eye
of the needle at the point instead Of at the
other ond.
THE LITTLE THINGS TIE siCsr VAL
UAELE.
Comparatively few people regard them
selves as inventors, but almost everybody
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 DOM the railroad company mako
its car windows that they can be slid IN
and down without breaking the passengers
backs?" exclairns the travelsr 1T wore
running the road / would make them in
such a way
What wes the man that mado this sauce-
pan thinking ofr'' grutnbles the cook"
lie never had to work ovsr q stove. or no
would have known how it ought 10 have
been fixed
''Haag such collar button - growls the
man who is late for breakfast. ~ we're
in tas business I'd make buttons that
wouldn't slip out, or break of, or gouga
out the back Of my neck -
And then the various sufferers forGat
about their grievances and begin to ;hiuk Of
somsthing else. It they would sit down at
the next convenient opportunity, pat their
Ideas about car windows, gaucep0as, and
collar buttons into practical shape, aud
then apply fer patents, thoy might find
themselves as Independently wealthy Is tas
man WHO invonted the iron umbrella ring,
or the one who patented the afreen puzzle.
TEMPTING OFFER.
To induce people to keep track OF thair
bright ideas and sec what thor. Is in the,p.
the Press Claims Company haa resolved to
offer prize.
To the person ,rLo su5,n lis 70 il Tho
simplest and most promising iuueation.
from a commercial point Of rietc, the conc
pony lcW gre tcsntg.Grs hundred dollars
in CASH, i3 addition 10 retuaGtag me
fees for securing the patent
It aeH also o9rertise the invention r.cd
Of charge.
This oGsr is subjoo. to the following con-
ditions:
Every competitor must obtain g patent
fer his Invention through the company. He
must first apply for a preliminary search.
the cost OF which will be avo doi!ars.
Should this search show bis invention to be
unpatentoble, he can withdraw without
further expense. Otherwise he viii be OK
pected to complete his eppiicatiou md taxa
out patent in regular way. Tho totalex-
pense including Government and Bureau
fees, will be seventy dollars. For tais
whether he secures the prizs or not. the in,
ventor will have patent that ought to be-
a valuable property to him. The prize will
be awarded by jury consisting of thros
reputable patent attorneys Of Washington.
Intending competitors should Ill cut tho
following blank and forward it with their
applications
81 submit the within described invention
In competition for the Twenty-Five Hun
dred Dollar Prize offered by the Press
Claims Company.
NO BLANKS IN TETS CoAPETITIoN.
This is competition OF rather an IN
usual nature. Il is common TO offer prizes
for the best story, or picture, or arcaitec-
tural plan, all the competitors rsking the
lors OF their labor and the successful ono
merely selling his for the amount Of tho
prize. But tao Press Claims Company's
offer is something entirely different Each
person ia asked marsly 10 help himself and
the one who hsips himself 10 the beet adj
vantage is to be- rewarded for doing it,