The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-09-21
Prizes on Patents.
How to Get Twenty-Five Hundred
Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner has a Clear Gift of a
Small Fortune, and the Losers
Have Patents that may
Bring them in Still
More.

would You like to make twenty five
hundred dlliare? Ii you would, read
carefully what follows and you may see
n way To do it.
The Press Claims Company devotes
much attention TO patents. II has han
died thousands Of applications for IN
ven,ions, but 1t would like 10 handle
thousands more. There Is plenty OF
inventive talent vt large In this country,
needing nothing but encouragement to
produce rracti, al results. That en-
courageme Il the Press Claims Company
proposes to giye,t.
NOT SO HARD AS II SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people MS an APP
paliinsly formidable thing. The idea Is
that the inventor must be a natural
genius, like Edison or Bell; that he
must devote years u delying In compiia
Gated mechanical problems and that he
must spend "A fortune ON delicate expert
ments before he can get u new device TO
u patentable degree u perfection. This
delusiQn the company desires IN dispel.
II desires to get Into the head of'rlie
pubic u clear comprehension OF the fact
that It Is not the great, complex, aud
expensive inventions that bring the best
rslurns to their authors, but the little,
simple and cheap Ones-the things
that seem SO absurIly trivial that
the average citizen would feel somewhat
ashamed of bringing them to the atten-
ton OF the Patent Office.
Edison says that The profits he has re-
ceived from the patents On all his mar
Vicious inventions have not been suit :
Client to pay the cost Of experiments.
But the mau who conceived The idea oil
fastening d bit OF rubber curd co a uhild's
ball, SO that IL would come back to the
hand when thrown, made n fortune
| olit Of his scheme. This modern sewing
, machine Is a miracle Of Ingenuity 1.-The
y! oducl Of the toll vi hundreds Vt busy
Druins through u hundred aud fiiiy
years, but the whole brilliant Iesuk rests
upon the simple device of putuilg the
eye Of the needle NJ the pOiut inslead OF
al The other end.
THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST yALu-
ABLE.
Comparatively few people regard
themselves US inventors, but almost
everybody has been struck al one tiine
or apgther, with Ideas thari seeWed Qai.
cuiatel ID reduce soiuu VI tbs little Iriu-
tivns vi lite. Usually such ideas are
dismissed with0ut turlner thought,
"why don't tho railroad company make its
car windows 30 That they can be sid up and
down witnoat brenkiny tue passcngcrs' backsr
exclpi.ns tne traveller. III l wcrs running
tie road 1 woild ,nnky them sucli q way
what was thu ilial that made thss saucepan
thinking OF ~ gruinbles tne cook. .lic never
had t0 work over a stove, or he would have
hn0Wn how u ought W nave Duen Liked"
Hang suoh V solar AuvpH." erawls tho
maniwhS iA.fate Tor brtakfast, = ~ ] were IN
Tho business 1 would make Duttons that would
NOT sip cut, Or break o., or so'iEe OUT tas back
AID then tho yasiaus apqcrcrs forget abaa,
thcir gftcyhioes and begin 10 thphk about
sainetllny ei1e. II they Would sit aewn VI mo
aext n0nSenlent oppaftuAlty, lsat tlrir tdvas
Hlout Oar Winuvws saucepAis. and cuiiar hat.
tuns lhto p~rAutlyai shape, and tnan Hpply Tor
pAtvnts, tnty uiiRnt ilfu lilvhuscivsp Is kndu.
penuvntly seaIIky as me lnAu VINO Invented
tlv iron lmbfelia tniE, " t4s QUE VINO pstsnted
inc fiitsen paksis.
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