Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-08-03
Prizes on Patenrs-
How to Get Twenty flye Hundred
Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner has Clear Git OF a Small
Fortune, and the Losers Have
Patents that may Bring
Them In Still
More.

FdtentS tndt may Grtng
Them In Still
More.
Would you like to make twenty-five
hundred dollarsp II you would read
carefully what follows and you may see
way to do it.
The Press Claims Company deyotes
much attention to patents. II has ham
died thousands OF applications for in
veDtions, but it would iikato handle
thousands more There is plenty OF III
ventive talent ut large in this country,
needing nothing but encouragement to
produce practical resulfs. That en-
couragementt the Press Claims Company
proposes to give.
NOT so HARD AS 1T SEEMS.
patent strikes most people as an
appallingly formidable thing. The idea
IL that an inventor must be q natural
genius, like Edison or Bell, that he
must devote years to deiving IN COM
phcated mechanical problems and that
he must spend fortune on delicate
experiment. before he can get new
device to a patentable degree OF per-
fection. This delusion the company
desires to dispel. 1t desires to get into
the head of the public clear compre-
hension of the fact that 1t IS not the
great. complex, and expensive lnven-
tions tha. bring the best returns to their
buthors, but the little, simple, and
cneap ones-the things that seem so
absurdly trivial that the average citizen
would feel somewhat ashamed of bring
ing them 20 the attention Of the Patent
Office.
Edison says that the profits he re-
celved from the patents on ali his mar
velous Inventions have not been sufiici-
ent to pay the cost of his experiments,
Blu; the man who conceived the idea OF
fastening bit of rubber cord to y
chi!d's ball, SO tina. it would come back
to the kand when thrown, made for
tune out of his scheme. The modern
sewing machine is miracle OF ingenus
ity-the product of the toll OF hun
dreds Of busy brains through hum
dred 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 yALU-
ARIsE-s s..s.
{ Comparatively few people regard
themselves as inventors, but almost
everybody has been struck, at one time
or another, with ideas that seemed cal
culated to reduce some of the little fric-
tion OF life. Usually such ideas are
dismissed without further thought,
s'Why don't the railroad company
make its car windows so that they can
be slid up and down without breaking
the passenger backsp" exclaims the
traveller. III l were running the road
| would make them in such u way. =
ssWhat was the man tha. made this
saucepan thlnking or grumbles the
cook. s'He never had to work over
stove, or he would have known how 1t
ought to have been fixed. =
''Hang such collar button!" growls
the man who is late to breakfast. If I
were in the business I'd make buttons
that wouldn't slip .ut, or break off, or
gouge out the back OF my neck. y
Aud then the yarious sufferers forget
their grievances and begin 10 think Of
something else Ittney would sit down
at the next convenient opportunity. put
their ideas about car windows, sauce
pans and collar buttons into practical
shape, and then apply for patents. they
might find themselves as independently
wealthy as The man who invented the
iron umbrella ring, orthe one who pat
ented the fifteen puzzle.
TEMPTING OFFER.
To induce peop.e to keep tract of
their bright ideas and see what there IS
In them, The Press Claims Company has
resolved to offer prize,
To the person who submitsto it the
simplest and most promising invention.
from a commercial point OF view, the
company will give twenty-five hundred
dollars in cash, in addition to reiundlng
the fees for securing the patent.
II viii. also advertise the invention
free Of charge.
This offer is subject to the following
conditions. Every competitor must
obsain a patent for his invention through
the company. He must first appl, Tor
preliminary search, the cost OF which
will be five dollars. Should this search
show his invention to be unpatentable.
he can withdraw without further ex-
pense. Otherwise he will be expected
to complete his application and take
o1t patent in the regular way. The
total expense, including Government
and Bureau fees, win be seventy doiiars
For this. whether he secures The prize
or not, the inventor will have patent
that ought 20 be valuable property 10
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