Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-06-23
PRIZES on PATENTS.
How to Get Twenty i've Hundred
Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner Has . Clear Gift OF q Small
FORTUNE, and the Losers Have
Patents That MAJ Bring
Them Still 4Srs.

WOlld you like to make twenty five
hur dred dollars? If you would, read
carefully what follows and you may see
a! way to do it.
.'Ihe 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 inve3:ive 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 IT SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people as an APP
pallingly formidable thing. The idea lie
that All inventor must be natural gen.
ius, like Edison or Bell; that he must
devote years to delviny in complicated
mechanical problems and that he must
spend 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 gress, complex and expensive
inventions that bring the best returns to
their authors, but the little, simple and
cheap oncs-the things that seem so alb
sur,lly trivial that the average citizen
would feel somewhat ashamed OF bring
ing them to the attention Of the Patent
Office.
Edison says that tho profits he has re-
! ceived from the patterns on ali his mar
! velOus inventions have not been sulfi.
cient t" pay the cost OF his experiments.
lsut the man who conceived the idea IF
fastening bit Of rubber cord to child 4
| ball, SO that 1t would return back to the
hand when thrown, made fortune out
Of his scheme. The modern sewing ma
chine is miracle Of ingenuity--the pro-
duct of the toll Of hundreds OF busy
brains through hundred and fifty years
bat the whole brilliant result rests upon
the simple device Of putting the. eye Of
the needle ut the point instead Of at the
other end.
THE LITTLE THINus THE MOST VALUABLE.
Comparatively few people regard them.
selves as inventors, but almost every
body has been struck, at one time OF
another, with ideas that seemed calc,,.
lated to reduce some Of the little fric-
tiOns of life. Usually such ideas are
dismissed without further thought.
! "Why don't the railroad company
| t1nlo ira IN hat
! be slid up and down without breaking
the passengers backs?" cxclaims the
traveller. "If were running the road
would make them in such a way"
| "What was the. man that made this
saucepan thinking of?' grumb!es 1he
cook. "IIe never had to work over u
stove, or he would have known how II
ought to have been fixed" %
| "Hang luch collar button" growls
the man who is late for breakfast. eli
were in the business I'D make bu>tOnt
that wouldn't slip out. or break of, 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 sil
down ut the next convenient opportunity
put their ideas about car windows. sauce.
pans, and collar buttons iMtO practical
shape, and then apply for patents. they
might find themselves ~ independently
wealthy AS the man who invented thu
iron umbrella ring, or the one who
patented the fifteen puzzle.
| A TEMPTING OFFER.
To induce people to keep track Of theil
bright IDEAS ana see what there Is IL
them. the Press claims Company hal
resolved to offer p.ize.
| TO The person rh0 submits to i
the simplest and most promising in
centiom from a commercial point o.
rie'o. the company aciN gire t,oenty'
toe hundred dollars IN cash, in al
dition to retumding the fees for secur'
ing the patent.
1t aoiU also advertise the inven
ton free Of charye.
This offer is subject to the followin.
conditions:
Every competitor must obtain paten
for his invention through the company
lie must first apply for preliminar,
search, the cost OF which will be five dol
lars. Should this search show his inven
ton to be unpatentahle, he can withdraw
without further expense. Otherwise b.
will be expected to complete his applica
ton and take ont n patent in the regular
way. The total expense, including gov
eminent and bureau fees, will be seventy
dollars. For this, whether he secure
the prize or not, the inventor will hav,
n patent that ought TO be u valua,,l,
property to him. The prize will b.
awarded by n jury consisting of thre
Reputable patent attorneys Of Washing
ton. lntenGing competitors should fiji
out the following blank and forward /
with their application:
81 submit the within described inven