Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-06-28
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get Twenty five Hundred
Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner Has o Clear Gift OF q Small
Fortune, and the Losers Have
Patents That MAY Bring
THEM Still More.

Would you like to make twenty-five
hundred dollars? If you would, read
carefully what follows and you may see
a way to do it.
The Press Claims Company devotes
much attention to patents. 1t has hand
led thousands Of applications for patents
but it would like to handle thousands
more. There is plenty of inveo:ive tai
ent at large in this country, needing
nothing but encouragement to produce
practical results. That encouragement
the Press Claims Company proposes to
give.
NOT so HARD AS IT SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people as an ap-
pallingly formidable thing. The idea is
that an inventor must be natural gen.
ius, like Edison or Bell; that he must
devote years to delving in complicated
mechanical problems and that he must
spend fortune on delicate experiments
before he can get new device 10 a pat
entable degree of perfection. This delu-
sion the company desires to dispel. 1t
desires to get into the head of the public
a clear comprehension of the fact that it
is not the greet, complex and expensive
inventions that bring the best returns to
their authors, but the little, simple and
! cheap ones-the things that seem SO alb
surdly 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 has re-
ceived from the patents on all his mar
velous inventions have not been suffi-
cicnt to pay the cost of his experiments
But the man who conceived the idea OF
fastening bit of rubber cord to child'f
ball, so that it would return back to the
hand when thrown, made fortune Out
of his scheme. The modern sewing ma.
chine is a miracle Of ingenuity--the pro-
duct of the toll of hundreds Of busy
brains through hundred and fifty years
but the whole brilliant result rests upor
the simple device Of putting the eye o.
the needle at the point instead OF ut thu
other end
THE LITTLE Things THE MOST VALUABLE
Comparatively few people regard them
selves AS inventors, but almost every
body has been struck, at one time o.
another, with ideas that seemed calcu
lated to reduce some of the little fric
tons of life. Usually such ideas ar
dismissed without further thought.
"Why don't the railroad compan,
make it's Car windows so that they Cal
be slid up and down without breakin:
. | ~ .l-oS
traveller. of were running the road
would make them in such way"
"What was the man that made thi
, saucepan thinking OFF" grumbles til
cook. "He never had to work over
stove, or he would have known how
ought to have been fixed"
''Hang such collar button!" growl
the man who is late for breakfast. 81
were in the business I'd make button
that wouldn't slip out, or break of, o
gOuge out the back of my neck"
And then the various sufferers forge
about their grievances and begin to thin
of something else. If they would 81
down ut the next convenient opportunity
put their ideas about car windows. sauce
pans, and collar buttons into practices
shape, and then apply for patents, the
might find themselves rs independent
wealthy as the man who invented tn
iron umbrella ring, or the one VIII
patented the fifteen puzzle.
TEMPTING OFFER.
TO induce people to keep track of thei
bright ideas and see what there is i
I them. the Press claims Company ha
d resolved to offer prize.
. To the person achO submits to
tie simplest and most promising IN
: vention. from a commercial point {
E rie,c, the company arill gius t,cents
I toe hundred dollars IN cash, in "a
i. dition to reftnding the fees for SEGA,
d ing the patent.
y 1t aoiU also advertise the inUe,
r ton free Of charge.
). This offer is subject to the followin
4 conditions:
Il Every competitor must obtain patel
for his invention through the cOmpan!
y he must first apply for preliminar
'e search, the cost OF which will be five do
lars. Should this search show his invel
ton to be unpatentable, he can withdra
without further expense. Otherwise |
will be expected to complete his applies
ton and take out a patent in the regul;
=. way. The total expense, including GO
n eminent and bureau fees. will be sevenl
. dollars. For this, whether he secur,
the prize or not, the inventor will ha,
II a patent that ought to be valuab
il property to him. The prize will