The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-06-22
PRIZES ON PATENTS
THE WINNER HAS A CLEAR
GIFT OF 50, 800, AND THE
LOSERS HAVE PAT EN- rs
THAT MAY BRING THEM IN
STILL MORE


Would you like to make twenty-five hun
dred dollars? If you would, read carefully
what follows and you may see a way 10
do it.
The Press Claims Company devotes
much attention to patents. 1t has handled
thousands of applications for inventions,
but it would like to handle thousands more.
There is plenty of inventive talent at
large in this country, needing nothing
but announcement to produce practical
results. That encouragement the Press
Claims Company proposes TO give.
Nor SO HARD As IT SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people as an APP
pallingly formidable thing. The idea is
that an inventor must be Il natural genius,
like Edison or Bell; that he must devote
years to delving in complicated mechanical
problems and that he must spend for
tune on delicate experiments before he can
get new device to patcntable degree OF
perfection. This delusion the company
desires to. dispel. Ii desires TO get into
the public clear comprehension of the
fact that it is not the great complex, and
expensive inventions that bring the best
returns to their authors but the little, sim
pie and cheap 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 has re-
ceived from the patents on all his mar
velous inventions have not been sufficient
to pay the cost of his experiments. But
the man who conceived the idea of fasten-
ing bit OF rubber cord to a childs ball,
so that ii would come back to the hand
when thrown, made "A fortune out of his
scheme. The modern scwing-machne is
a miracal of ngenuity-the product of
the toll of hundreds of busy brains
through ii hundred 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 VALU-
ARLE.
Comparatively few people regard them
selves MS inventors, bun almost everybody
has been struck, at one time or another,
with ideas that seemed calculated to re-
duce some of the little frictlons of life.
Usually such ideas are dismissed without
further thought
"Why don't the railroad company make
us tdf WlntiuWS ~ tldl lIltl tdu NC Stu
up and down without breaking the pas
sengers' backsW exclaims the traveller.
'1f | were running the road would make
them in such way"
what was the man that made this
saucepan thinking Off grumbles the
cook. HE never had to work over
stove, or he would have known how it
ought to have been iixed.'
Hang such IA collar button" growls
the man who Is late for breakfast. IF |
were in the business I'd make buttons
that wouldn't slip out, break off, or
gouge out the back OF my neck.
And then the various sufferers forget
about their grievances and begin to think
of something else. If they would sit
down at the next convenient opportunity,
put their ideas about the car windows,
saucepans, and collar bntlons into pract-
cal shape, and then apply for patents,
they might find themselves as independ-
emily wealthy as the man who invented
the iron umbrella ring, or the one who
patented the fifteen puzzle.
A TEMPTING OFFER
To induce people to keep track 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 IL the
simplest and most promising invention.
from commercial point of view, the
company will give twenty-five hundred
Collars in cash, in addition to refunding
the fees ior securing the patent
1t will also adl>riise the invention free
Of charge.
This offer is subject to the following
conditions:
Every competitor must obtain patent
for his invention through the company.
He must first apply for u, preliminary
search, the cost of which tyill be five dol
lars. Should this search show his inven
ton to be unpatentable, he can Withdraw
without further expense, Otherwise HI
will be expected to complete his applica
ton and take out patent in the regula
way. The total expense, including Gov
eminent and Bureau fees, will be sevent,
dollars. For this, whether he secues tn
prize or not, the inventor will have n pat
ent that ought to be II valuable propert,
to him. The prize will be awarded by
jury consisting of three reputable paten
attorneys of Washington. Intending
competitors should Ali out the following
blank, and forward it with their applies
ton
"--.-,1 1893.
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