The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-06-08
PRIZES ON PATENTS
THE WINNER HAS A CLEAR
GIFT OF 81, 500, AND THE
LOSERS HAVE PAT ENTS
THAT MAY BRING THEM IN
STILL MORE.

LOSERS HAVE PAT NTS
THAT MAY BRING THEM IN
STILL MORE.
Would you like to make twenty-five hun
dred dollars? II you would. read carefully
what follows and you may see way to
do it.
The Press Claims Company devotes
much attention to patents. 1thas handled
thousands Of applications for inventions,
but 1t 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 encouragement the Press
Claims Company proposes to give.
Nor SO HARD As IT SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people as an ap-
pallingly formidable thing. The idea IL
that an inventor must be 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 Car
get new device to a patentable degree o
perfection. This delusion the company
desires to dispel 1t desires TO get int
the public clear comprehension of thu
fact that it is not the great, complex ant
expensive inventions that bring the bes
returns to their authors, but the little, sim
pie and cheap ones-the things that seen
80 absurdly trivial that the average either
would feel somewhat ashamed of bring
ing them to the attention OF the Paten
Office.
Edison says that the profits he has re
ceived from the patents on ell his mar
velous inventions have not been sufficien
to pay the cost of his experiments. Blu
the man who conceived the idea OF fasten
ing bit Of rubber cord to a child's ball
80 that 1t would come back TO the hant
when thrown, made fortune out OF hi
scheme The modern scwing-machine i
miracal OF ingenuity-the product o
the toll of hundreds OF busy brain
through hundred and fifty years, bu
the whole brilliant result rests upon TN
simple device OF putting the eye OF tn
needle at the point instead OF at the othe
end
THE LITTLE THINGS The Mosr VALU
ABLE.
Comparatively few people regard them
selves as inventors, but almost everybod,
has been struck, at one time or another
with ideas that seemed calculated to re
duce some OF the little frictions of life
Usually such ideas are dismissed withou
further thought
why don't the railroad company max,
its car windows so that they can be slit
up and down without breaking the pas
sengers backs?" exclaims the traveller
III were running the road would maxi
them IN such way"
What was the man that made thi.
saucepan thinking of" grumbles thu
cook. HE never had to work over 1
stove, or he would have known how /
ought TO have been fixed.v
Hang such collar button!" growll
the man who is late for breakfast. IF
were in the business I'd make buttons
that wouldn't slip out, break off, OF
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 sill
down at the next convenient opportunity,
put their ideas about the car windows
saucepans, and collar bnttons into praoti.
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 theil
bright ideas and see what there is In them
the Press Claims Company has resolved
to offer prize.
To the person who submits to II tn,
simplest and most promising invention
from commercial point of view, tn
t.ompapy will rive tWputV-fiyp huu1rnt