Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-06-17
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get Twenty five Hundred
Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner Has q Clear Gift OF 4 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 inventive 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 1T SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people as an APP
pallingly formidable thing. The idea is
that an inventor must be a natural gen.
ius, like Edison or Bell; that he must
devote years to delving in complicated
mechanical problems and that he must
spend a fortune on delicate experiments
before he can get new device to pat
entable degree of perfection. This delu-
sion the company desires to dispel. 1t
desires to get into the head of 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, 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's
ball, SO that it would return back to the
hand when thrown. made fortune on,
Of his scheme. The modern sewing ma
chino is 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 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 VALUABLE
Comparatively few people regard them.
selves as inventors, but almost every
body has been struck, ut one time OF
another, with ideas that seemed calcu.
lated to reduce some Of the little fric-
tons of life. Usually such ideas are
dismissed without further thought.
"Why don't the railroad company
make it's car windows so that they can
be slid up and down without breaking
the passengers backs?" cxclaims the
traveller. eff 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 q
stove, or he would have known how il
ought to have been fixed"
Chang such a collar button! !" growls
the man who is late for breakfast. "I1
l were in the business I'd make buttons
that wouldn't slip out, or break of, OF
gouge out the back of my neck"
And then the various sufferers forge,
about their grievances and begin to think
Of something else. If they would si
down at the next convenient opportunity
put their ideas about car windows sauce.
pans, and collar buttons into practica
shape, and then apply for patents, they
might find themselves as independently
wealthy as the man who invented The
iron umbrella ring, or the one who
patented ths fifteen puzzle.
A TEMPTING OFFER.
To induce people to keep track of theil
bright ideas and see what there is il
them. the Press Claims Company hal
resolved to offer prize.
TO the person aeho submits to 4
the simplest and most promising IN
cention. from commercial point O
rie,c, the company aciW give twerty
ive ha,ndred dollars IN cash, in al
aition to retanding the fees for secur
ing tie patent.
1t acW also advertise the inuen
ton free Of charge.
This offer is subject to the followin,
conditions:
Every competitor must obtain paten
for his invention through the company
He must first apply for preliminar
search, the cost OF Which will be five dol
lars. Should this search show his inven
without further expense. Otherwise h
will be expected to complete his applica
ton and take out a patent in the regula
way. The total expense, including gov
eminent and bureau fees, will be sevenr
dollars. For this, whether he secure
the prize or not, the inventor will hav
patent that ought to be valuabl
property to him. The prize will b
awarded by a jury consisting of tire
reputable patent attorneys of " ASKING
ton. Intending competitors should ii
out the following blank and forward
with their application:
| 1893.
81 submit the within described invel
ton in competition for the Twenty ii,