The state herald., 1893-11-17
PRIZES ON PATENTS
HOW TO Get TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED DOL
LARS FOR NOTHING.
The winner has Clear Gift Of . Small
rertunts. and the Losers Have
Patents that may Bring them In
Hill More.


The Prcss Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. 1t has handled thousands
Of applications for inventions, but 1t wsuld
like To handle thousands more There ia plenty
of inventive talent at large in this country
needing nothing but announcement to produce
practical results. That encourage nent the Press
Claims Company proposos to give.
Not 40 Hard as 1t Seems.
patent strikes most people az an appallingly
formidable thing, The idea is that IN inventor
must DO natural genius, like Edison or Bell !;
that no must devote yours to delving in complica-
tod mechanical problems and that he must spend
fortune on delicate experiments before he can
get new device to apatentable degree Of perfec-
tion This dcluson the company desires to dispel.
1t desreo to get into the head Oft public clear
compreh ,nHion of tho fact that It 10 not the great
complex, and expensive inventions that bring
tho beat returns to their authors. but the little.
simple, and cheap ones-thc things that seem so
| absurdly trivial that the average citizen would
feel somewhat ashamed Of bringing them TO the
attention OF the Patent Office,
Edison says that the profits bo has received
from tho patents on his marvellous inventions
have not been sufficient to pay the coat OF his ex'
pcriments. Bat tho man who conceived the idea
OF fastening bit of rubber cord to childs ball,
so that II would came back to the hand when
thrown. made fortune out of his scheme The
modern sewing machine is miracle of ingenuity
tho product of the toll Of hundreds of busy
brains through hundred and fifty years. but the
whole brilliant result rests upon tho simple de-
vico Of putting the oye OF the noodle at the pon
instead OF at the other end.
The Little Things the Most Valuable.
Comparatively few people regard Themselves
Us ih'entors' out almost everybody has been
s'ruek, atone Time or another with ideas that
seeined calculated 10 reduce some oil tho little
inouons O. me. Usually such Ideas arc dismissed
without 'arther thought.
why don't the railroad company make Its
car windows SO That they can be aid mp and down
without breaking tho Passengers backsf' ex-
CHAINS mo traveller III were running the read
would make them In such way
"n"' VIZ the man 'iiht made ms saucepan
'nnhhg"i' sruinoiest me COOK. lie nererhad
10 WORK over stove. or he would have known
now II ought to nave been t1ed."
hans such collar button"' growls the man
VINO Is late Tor breakfast. III were in the bust
nos MAKE buttons that wouldn't slip ont, oil
prcak on or gonse ont the back OF my neck"
| ana 'neh inc various sufferers forget about
'neir Rfiesahees anu begin to mink oil something
ehe' Hthey would SIT down at the next eonven
tent opportunity put their ideas about car win
Vows sa"e-pans' anu collar buttons into practi
cal shape anu then apply Tor patents, they might
hnd themselves as independently wealthy as the
ihan VINO nVen'ed the iron umbrella ring. or III,
one who patented tho hfteen purrlo.
n TempunS Oner.
To induoe people to keep track Of their bright