Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-07-13
Prizes on Patenrs-
How to Get Twenty five Hundred
Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner has Clear Git of Small
Fortune, and the Losers Have
Patents that may Bring
Them In Still
More.

More.
Would you like to make TWENTY-FIVE
hundred dollarsp IT you would read
carefully what follows and you may see
q way to do it.
The Press Claims Company devotes
much attentiot TO patents. It has han
died thousands OF applications for in
veDtions, but it would like to handle
thousands more. There is plenty of in
ventive talent at large III this country,
needing nothing out encouragement to
produce practical results. That en-
couragementlh the Press Claims Company
proposes to give.
NOT so HARD AS 1T SEEMS.
patent strikes most people as an
appallingIy formidable thing. The idea
IL that an inventor must be q natural
genius, like Edison or Bell, that he
must devote years to delvlng IN COM
plicated mechanical problems and that
he must spend fortune on delicate
experiment. before he can get a new
device to a patentable degree OF per-
lection. This delusion the company
desires to dispel. 1t desires to get into
lAC bCbO Vi tuC RuQllC ClcdI COIuQTE-
hension of the fact that 1t Is not the
great. complex. and expensive lnven-
tions thai bring the best returns to their
authors, but the little, simple, and
cneap ones--the things that seem so
absurdly trivial that the average citizen
would feel somewhat ashamed of bring
ING them TO The attention of the Patent
Office.
Edison says that the profits he re-
ceiged from the patents on ali his mar
velous Inventions have not been suilici-
ent to pay the cost of his experiments,
But the man who conceived the idea of
fastening bit of rubber cord to .
cnild's ball, so that it would come back
to the kaGd when thrown, made for
tune out OF his scheme. The modern
sewing machine is miracle of ingenus
ity-the proouct of the toll of hun
dIeds Of busy brains through hum
dred and fifty years, but the whole
brilliant result rests 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 yALU-
ABLE.
Comparatively few people regard
themselves as inventors, but almost
everybody has been struck, at one time
or another, with ideas that seemed CAL
culated to reduce some of the little fric-
ton of life. Usually such ideas are
dismissed without further thought,
"Why don't the railroad company
make its car windows so that they can
be slid up and down without breaking
the passenger backsp" exclaims the
traveller. ''lf were running the road
would make them in such way. -
"What was the man tha. made this
saucepan thlnklng ot' grumbles the
cook. ssHe never had to work over a
stove, or he would have known how 1t
ought to have been fixed.n
.'Hang such a collar button!'' growls
the man who is late to breakfast. ssIf
were in the business I'd make buttons
that wouldn't slip cut, or break off, or
gouge out the back OF my neck.
And then the various sufferers forget
their grievances and begin to think of
something else Ifthey would sit down
at the next convenient opportunity, put
their ideas about car windows, sauce-
pans and collar buttons into practical
shape. and then apply for patents. they
might find themselves as independently
wealthy as the man who invented the
iron umbrella ring, or the one who pat
ented the fissssn puzzle.
A TEMPTING OFFER.
To induce peop.e to keep tract Of
their bright IDEAS and see what there IS
In them, the Press Claims Company has
resolved to offer prize.
TO the person who submits to it the
simplest and most promising invention,
from commercial point Of view, the
company will give twenty-five hundred
dollars in cash, in addition to refundlng
the fees for securing the patent.
1t viii. also advertise the invention
free of charge.
This offer is subject to the following
conditions Every competitor must
obtain a patent for his invention through
the company. He must first apply tor
. preliminary search, the cost Of which
will be five dollars. Should this search
show his invention to be unpatentable,
he can withdraw without further ex-
pense. Otherwise he will be expected
to complete his application and take
out q patent in the regular way. The
total expense, including Government
and Bureau fees, will be seventy dollars
For this, whether he secures the prize
or not. the inventor will have patent
that ought 20 be valuable property 10
him. The prize will be awarded 6y Z
jury consisting Of three reputable patent
attorneys OF Washington. Intending
competitors should fill out the following
blank, aud forward it with their appli-
cation.
", -, 1892.
| II submit the within described in
vention in competition for the twenty,
] five hundred D,,llar Prize nffared b,