Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-10-19
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get Twenty-Five Hun.
drcd Dollars for Nothing.

Small Fortune, and tho
Losers Have Patents that
May Bring Them in
Still More.
Would You like to make twenty-five hum
drcd dollars? If you would read carefully
what follows and you may see n way to do it..
The Press Claims Company devotcs much
attention to patents 1t has handled thou,.
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 encourage
mcnt to produce practical results That
encouragement the Pros, Claims Company
proposes to give.
NOT so II ARD A. IT SEEMS.
y patent strikes most people "a, an appa-
| lmgiy formidable thing. The idea is that
an inventor must be natural genius like
Edison or Bell that be must devote years
to delving IN complicated mechanical prob
! lens and that ne must spend a fortune on de- -
| licatc experiments before he can ret a new
device to patentnblc degree of perfection
This delusion the company desires 20 dispe
1T desires to get into the head Of thc public
a clear comprehension OF the fact that it il
| not the great, complex and expensive mven-
'''h ''' ~ lll~ ill' li'0l l'lllIlN 10 llltlI HO
thol>. but tn" little, simple. and cheap one,
the thing, that seem so absurdv trivial
that the average citizcn would feel somewhat
ashamed of bringing them to the attention
of the Patent Office
Edison say, that the profits he ha, received
from tho patents ON all his marvellous nvcu-
lions have not been sufficient to pay the cost
of his experiments. But the man who con-
ccived the idea Of fastening q bit Of rubber
cord 10 n childe ball. So that it would come
/ back to the hand when thrown made a for
tune out of hi, scheme. The modern sewing
machine is miracle of ingenuitv-the pro
duct of the toll of hundreds of busy brains
through hundred and fifty years. but the
Who'll" brilliant result rests upon the simple
/ device of putting the eye of the needle at
the point instead of at the other end
TEE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST VALE
ABLE.
Comparatively few people regard them
selves Is inventors. but almost everybody
has been struck at one time or another
with ideas that seemed calculated to reduce
some of the little friction~ of hlc Usually
such ideas are dismissed without further
thought
"Why don; the railroad company make
il, car windows So thai they can be slid mp
and down without breaking the passengers
.'' ~ ''''''1 ,"' va 'I'f' were
.,,b , ,,.o,-.. 80
"What wa, the man that made This .au,.a-
nan thiukin, OF . grlrmblp, fine cool
| H, never. had to work over. q .to,o ~. bo
would have known now if ouoht to have
been fixed
Hang such a collar button " glowl, he
man who i, late for breakfast "lf were
! i'm the luI~iu.~- IA iuola l,u+t,r- tb.t
wouldn't slim ont ~, bronI, Off On. ,,o,i,,a r,,t
the back of NV neck
And then tn. .ya,.io,,, ..ut,,ar. fo,.,a, about
their grievance. and b,gin +. mimi, of soma
thing else. If they ,yonld i, dovr at tho
next convenient o,,r,rtunitv mt thai,. idoa.
about car windows .auconan, and colIo,.
Lutt,n. int, ,,r.,.,i,.ol .lo,, ami tI',, o,,,I,