The weekly tribune., 1893-05-19

The Winner has Clear Gift of A.
Small Fortune. and the Losers
Have Patents That may
Bring them in Still
More.

Would You like to make $25OO? II YOU
wouli, read carefully what follows and you NAV
see q way to do it.
Inc Press Claims company devotes much al
tentlon to patents. 1t has handled thousands of
apphcatlons for inventions. but it would like
10 handle thousands more. There is plenty of
inventive talent at large in this country need
ing nothing but encouragement to produce
practical results. That announcement the
Press Claims CON pany proposes 70 give.
NOT SO HARD AS 1T SEEMS.
patent strikes most people as an appalling
yentor must be a natural genius, like Edison or
Bell; that he must devote years to deIyinp in
complicated conn mechanical problems and that he
must spenda fortune on delicate experiments
before ne can get a new device to a patentabie
degree of perfection. This deluson the com.
h hhany G desires to dispel. 1t desires to get into
OF the TACT that it lis not the great, complex and
expensive inventions that bring the best re-
turns d to their authors but the little, simple,
and chefp ones-the things that seem SO ab.
TSonld feel somewhat ashamed Of bringing
them to the attention of the patent Office.
Edison says that the profits he has received
lions s have not been sufficient to pay the cost CT
the idea Of fastening bit of rubber cord to a
Gniids Gd ball. so that it would come back to the
gna sshnn when rt tthrown made fortune out of his
scneihe. Inc modern sewing machine is a mir
ac!e OF lngenqty-the product of the toll of
nnnhoredS OF busy brains through hundred and
nifty .ais, but the whole brilliant result rests
upon the single device of putting the eve the
needle at the point instead of at the other end.
THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST
Valuable.
Comparatively few people regard themselves
as inventors but almost everybody has been
struck, at one time or another. with ideas that
franeu fr;n cacpated to reduce some of the little
lricilons OF life: Usually such ideas are dismiss
ed without further thought.
Why don't the railroad company make its
car windows SO that they can be Slid up and
down withoat breaking the passengers' baGks;''
eGciaims the traveller. IF were in the bust
nesS Svh would make them in such way"
:, nat was the man that made this saucepan
thih1klng mn OF grnmbles the cook. "He never
had to work over stove, or he would have
kn1Tn Munn how it ought to have been fixed
who is late for breakfast. "lf 1 we're in the
business ~ make buttons that wouldn't slim
OUT or break OF, or gouge out the back of ny
=, And then the various sufferers forget about
tlin thGlr grievances and begin to think of some
convenient opportunity, put their ideas abJut
ca car windows saucepans, and collar buttons in
tPa 70 shape and then apply for patents
wealthy. AZ the man who invented the iron nm.
oreIia ring, or the one who patcl ted the IF
teen puzzle. C1Car
- IEMPTlNGGOFFE
TO induce people TO keep track of their bright
TIt Ieas ana see what their is in them, the Press
'iaiins company has resolved to offer prize.
OTo the person who submits to it
the simplest and most promising in
vention, from a commercial point of
view: the company will give twenty
hnnNy.nH dol
ditiOn to reflInding the fees for Sc
curing the patent.
1t will also advertise the invention
free of charge.
j, ;i;a ihis offer Is subject to the following con-
ent Tor his invention through the company
ne ne must nn, frsi apply f2r preliminary search
thG H. eost or Tne Will be hve dollars Should
able ne can withdraw without further expense
otherwise he will be expected to complete his
ntnp,1eStioT tar sS T ana take out patent in regu
ment and bureau fees. will be seventy dollars
for in this, whether he secures the prize or not,
be valuable property to hin,. The prize will
be awarded by Jury consisting of three re-
reputable patent attorneys of Washington. In
tending competitors should fill ont the follow
ing blank, and forward it with their applica-
ton:
u submit the within described invention in
for the twenty five hundred dol
lar prize offered by the Press Claims com
pany." ''----T
NO BLANkS IN THIS COMPLETION,
This is a competion of rather an unusual ma
nre. 1t Is common to offer prizes for the best
story or picture, or architectal plan, all tho
competitions isking the loss of their abors
and the successful one merely selling his for
amount lai,
COMPANY = offer is something entirely different.
Each person is asked merely to help himself
ana the one who helps himself to the best ad-
irchitnrt AuLnnn III. IL