The state herald., 1893-10-06
ON PATENTS
Row TO GET TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED DOL
LARS FOR NOTHING.
The winner has Clear Oft " . Small
Tortunt.. and the Losers Fave
Patents that may Bring them In
Ntill More.

uyou hko 70 make twenty-five hundred
doilarsf II you would. read carefully what fol
lows and you msy SEQ a way to do II.
The Press Claims Company devotion much
attention TO patents. Il has handled thousands
Of applications for inventions. but 1t wsuld
like to handle Thousands more. There Ia plenty,
OF inventive talent at largo In this country
needing nothing but encouragement to pIotluor
practical results. That encourage mont the Prsas
Claims Company proposes to give.
Net 10 Hare - II Seems.
patent strikes most people q an appallin~ly
formidable thing. The idea Il that IN inveator
must b natural genius, like Edison o. Ball
that he must devote yesrs to delving In complies.
ted mechanical problems and that be must speod
fortune on delicate experiments before be can
get a nsw device to apatentahis dogrse Of ps<feo.
ton. This dciusion the company desires TO dispel
1t desires to get into tho head Of the public oisss
comprehension Of tho fact that II Il not the sreat
complex, and expensive inventions that bsins
tho host returns to their authors, hat the little,
| simple. and cheap ones-ths thinss that seem %
absurdly trivial that the average citison voold
fsel somewhat ashamed OF bringing them TO thu
attontioA Of the Patent Office.
Edison says that tho pro6ts he Ass rscslvsd
from the patents on nilhis marvellous inventions
have not boon sufficient to pay tho cost Of his az.
pcriments. But tho man who conceived the itss
Of fastening bit Of rubber cord to child's ball,
sothat 1t would came hack to the hand when
thrown. made y fortune out Of his scheme. Ths
modern sewing machine Ia miracle Of ingenuity
tho product Of tho toll Of hundreds Of busy
brains through hundred and fifty years, but the
whole brilliant result rests upon the ample de.
vice of putting the eye Of the needle at tho poin
instead Of ut tho other end.
The Little Things the Most Valuable.
Comparatively few people regard themselves
as inventors, but almost everybody has been
struck, at ono time or another, with ideas that
seemed calculated to reduce some Of tho little
frictions oflfc Usually such ideas arc dismissed
| without further thought.
why don't the railroad company make its
car windows 40 that they can bc slid up and down
without breaking the passongers' backsf" ex.
claim- tho traveller. "If were running the road
would make them in such a way"
What WINS the man that made this saucspap
thinking orr grumblcs the cook. ale never had
to work over store. or he would have known
how II ought to have been fixed"
Hang such collar buttonr' growls the ma,
who Is late for breakfast. "If were In the busi.
| noes I'd mako buttons that wouldn't slip out, or
break Oft, or eougc out the back Of my neck"
And then tho various sufferers forget nlout
their grievances and begin To think Of somethins
else. II they would sit down at the nc1t conyen-
lent opportunity, put their ideas about car win
DOVE. saucepans, and collar buttons into practi.
cal shape. and then apply for patents, thoy mxht
ind themselves AS independently wealthy - tho
man who invented the iron umbrella ring, or the
ono who patented the fifteen puzzle.
A Tempting ORer.
To induce people to keep track Of their brixh,
ideas rnd see what there is in them, tho Press
Claims Company has resolved to offer a prize.
Ts the person who Submits 70 u the
ainplest and most prsnisinx inven.
ttoR. from = commercial psins sf view,
the company Will give tweaty-av
hundred dollars In cash, In addition to
refaading the fees for securing the
pateat.
II will aiss advertise the invenss>a
fire. o. charge.
This offer In subject to the follovinQ ajsIoos:
Every cosapetitorl must ebaasw . psssae for
his invcution through tho cuuqany. He muse
nst apply for preliminary sssroh.ths cot Of
which will bo i've dollArs, Should thi. search
show his Invention to be unpss-es.i,Is.
no can withdraw without fur-
ther expcnss. Otherwise no will b.
expected tocomplete his application and take out
patent 10 the regular way. Tho total expcnse,
including 0oyernmcnt and Bureau fcss, will bc
seventy dollars. fot this, whether he sscusrs the
prize or not, the inventor will have patent that
ought to bc valuable property to him. Tho priss
will be awurici by Jury consisting Of three ron
utnblc patent attorneys of Washington. Intending
competitions should al cut the following blank.
"A MI fnPtrn Al 10 srtsl, sl.tr