The Opelousas courier., 1893-11-25
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How TO Get Twenty-Five Hun.
dred Dollars fore Nothing.
The Winner has a Clear Gift OF q
Small Fortune, and the Losers
Have Patents hat may
Bring them in Still
More.

Would YOU like to make twenty-five nun
dollars If YOU would, read carefully what
follows and Won may see Il way 10 40 IL.
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. 1t has handled tho"s.
ands of applications for inVehtlohS' nut II
would like to handle thousands NOR tL;s
is plenty of inventive talent at large III inns
c%onntry. needing nothing but encouragement
to nrodnre practical results. That encourage
ment the Press Claims Company proposes 10
give.
NOT so HARD AS 1T SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people as an .ap,
pallingIy formidable thing. The idea Is that
an inventor must be "A natural genus IKE
Edison or Bell that he must devote years 10
drlyinp in complicated mechanical problems
and that he must spend a fortune OH deilcale
governments before he can get a new device
TO a patentable degree OF perfect!on. Inns
delusion the company desires 10 "l"pSi. IL
desires to get into the head OF the pubic Il
clear comprehension OF the tact ina II IL non
the great, complex, and expensive ihvrnii""s
that bring the hest returns to their authors
hut the little, simple and cheap "neS-the
tbinrs that seem so ahanrdly trivial That the
average citizen would feel somewhat ashamed
of bringing them to the attention. OF the
Patent Office. ,
Edison saws that the profits he has received
from the patents on all his marvellous lnvtn'
tions have not been sufficient to pay the cost
of his experiments. But the man who con
ceiyed the idea Of fastening a bit OF Rubber
cord TO a child'a ball, so that II would come
hack to the hand When thrown, made a i"r-
tune out of his scheme lhe modern sf"'nE'
machine is a miracle of ingennity-the pro,
duet of the toll If hundreds OF busy brains
through a hundred and fifty wears, bur the
whole brilliant result rest upon the SIMPLE
device of putting the eye of the needle at the
point instead of at the other end.
THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST VALu-
ABLE.
CnmparatiyeIy 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 %frictlons OF LIE. Usually ShcI
IDEAS are dismissed without further thought
"Whv don't the railroad company make its
| car windows so that they can be slid up and
down without breaking the passengers
| Racket" exclaims the traveller. ''lf | were
rnnnjno the road I would make them in surf
a way"
nan thinking Off" grulnhles the cook. He
never had TO work over a stove, or he woulC
ave known how it ought TO have beer
fixed"
"Hang such a collar bnston!' growls the
man who is late for breakfast. III l were IL
| the business I'd make buttons that wonldn.
| SID out, OF bIt0$ vi, vi S'"S' '"h 'NS '"
of my neck"
And then the various sufferers forget about
their grievances and begin to think OF some
| thing else. If they would sit down at the
next convenient opportunity, put their tdea:
about car windows, sancepans, and cola
buttons into practical shape ana then app
for patents, they might find themselves a:
independently wealthy as the man who Ill
vented the IRON umbrella ring, or the ont
who patented the fifteen puzzle.
A TEMPTING OFFER.
To induce people to keep track OF thel
| brioLt IDEAS and see what there is in them
| the Press Claims Company has resolved t.
offer IA prize.
To the person who submits to it the
simplest and most promising inven
ton, from a commercial point of view
the company will give twenty-five
hundred dollars in cash, in addition tx
refunding the fees for securing the
patent
1t will also sdve1tige the invention
free of charge,
This offer is subiect. to the following cond
tons:
Every competitor must obtain ii patent TO
his invention through the company. He mus
first apply for preliminary search, the cost 0
which will be five dollars. Should this searcl
show his invention to be unpatentable, he cal
withdraw without further expense. Other
wise he will be expected to complete his ap
plication AID take out a patent in the reguia
wag The total expense, including Govern
ment and Bureau fees, will be seventy dol
lars. For this, whether he secures the priz
or not. the inventor will have a patent tina
ought to he II valuable property to him. TIL
prize will be awarded by II jury consisting o
three reputable attorneys Of Washington
Intending competitors should fill out the fol
lowing blank, and forward il with their appll
cation: