Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-02-09
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get twenty-five Hun.
drcd Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner has Il Clear Gift of q
Small Fortune, and tho
Losers Have Patents that
May Bring Them in
Still More.

Still More.
Would you like 70 make twenty-five hun
dred dollars If you would, rend carefully
what follows and you may see a way to do it.
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. 1t has handled tbous-
ands 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 encouragement
to produce practical results That encour--
agement the Press Claims Company pro-.
| poses to give
NOT so HARD AS IT SEEMS
| A patent strikes most people as an appall-
ingly formidable thing. The idea is that au
| inventor must be q natural genius, like Edit
son 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
to patentable degree of perfection. This
deusion 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 tho great complex and expensive in
ventions that bring ths best returns to their
authors, but the little, simple, and cheap
one-the things that seem 80 absurdly
trivial that the average citizen would feel
somewhat ashamed of bringing them to the
attention of the Patent Office.
Edison says that the profits he has re-
ceved from the patents all his marvellous
inventions have not been sufficient to pay
the cost Of his experiments. But the man
who conceived the idea of fastening bit Of
rubber cord to child's ball. so that 10
would come back to the hand when thrown,
made fortune out of his scheme. Tho
/ oil vvin machine ia mil cIa IF in
genuity-the product of the toll of hundreds
of busy brains through 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 VAL
UABLE.
Comparatively lew people regard them
selves as inventors, but almost every body
has been struck, at time another,
with ideas that seemed calculated to reduce
some Of the little frictions 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 tue passengers
backs?' exclaims the traveller. 'If | were
running the road l would make them in
such way"
CIV hat was the man that made this sauce
tt .ga nsy',. s,d 70 work over stove or bs
would have known how it ought to have
boen fixed
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man who is late for breakfast. "If | were
in tbe business IA mai, buttons that
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