The state herald. (Holyoke, Logan County, Colo.) 1887-1921, 1893-12-15
ON PATENTS
HOW TO Get TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED DOL
lars FOR NOTHING.
Tho winner has Clear Gift OF . small
fortuuts, and the Losers Havs
Patents that may Bring them In
atill More,


Wouldy you like to make twenty-five hundred
dollarsf II you would, read carefully what fol-
lows and you may SEQ way to do 1t.
Tho Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. 1t has 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.
Not 80 Hard as II Seems.
patent strikes most people as an appallingly
formidable thing, Tho idea In that an inventor
must be natural senius, like Edison or Boil;
TINT no must devote years to delvins In complica-
ted mechanical problems and that he must spend
q fortune on delicate experiments before he can
get now Device to apatentable degree of perfeo-
ton. This dslusion the company desires to dispel
1t desires to get Into the head tho public ciear
comprehension Of tho fact that 1t Is not the grcat
complex, and expensive inventions that bring
tho bcst returns to thoir authors, but tho little,
simple, md cheap ones-tho things that seem so
absurdly trivial that the average citizen would
feel somewhat ashamed Of bringing them to the
attention OF tho Patcnt Office.
Edison says that the profits he has reosived
from the patents on allhis marvellous inventions
have not been sufficient to pay the cost Of his ex-
periments. But the man who conceived the idea
OF fastening bit OF rubber cord to child's ball,
30 that 1t would came back to tho hnnd when
thrown, made fortune out of his scheme. The
modern sewing-machino Is miracle OF ingenuity
the product Of the toll of hundreds Of busy
brains through hundred and fifty years. but the
whole brilliant result rests upon the simple de-
vice of putting the cye Of the needle at tho poin
instead Of at the other end.
The Little Things the Most Valuable.
Comparatively few people regard themselves
rs inventors, but almost everybody has been
struck. at one time or another, with ideas that
seemed calculated to reduce some Of tho little
frictions life. Usually such ideas arc dismissed
without further thought
why don't the uilroad company make its
car windows 10 that they can be slid up and down
| without breaking The passonsers' backsi" cx-
claims the traveller ''If were running the road
would make them in such way"
What was the man that made this saucepan
thinking OFF, erumblcs the cook. "Ho never had
to work over stove. or he would have known
how it ought to have been fixed"
Hang such collar buttonr' growls tho man
who is late for breakfast. "If were in the bust.
ness I'd mike buttons that wouldn't slip out, or
break oil, or eougc out tho back Of my neck"
And then the various sufferers forget about
their grievances and begin to think Of something
else. II they would sit down ut the next conycn-
| lent opportunity, put their ideas about cur win
dows. saucepans, and collar buttons into practi.
cal shape, and then apply for patents, they might
find themselves as independently wealthy as the
man who invented the iron umbrella ring, or the
ono who patented the fifteen puzzle.
A Tempting Offer.
To induce people to keep track Of their bright
ideas and sec what there is In them, tho Press
Claims Company has resolved to offer prize.
To the person who submits to IL the
simplest and most promising tnven-
ton. from commercial point OF view.
the company will give twenty.n 1--WE
hundred dollars In cash. In addition to
refunding the fees for securing the
patent.
IL will also advertise the Invention
free or charge.
This offer Is subject to tho following conditions
Every compeitorl must obtain u patent for
his invention through tho company. lie must
first apply for preliminary search. the cost Of
which will be fvo dollars, should this search
show his invention to be unpatentable,
hc can withdraw without fur
thor expense. Otherwise he will 10
expected to complete his application and taxi out
patent In tho regular way. Tho total expense,
including Government and Bureau fees, wifi DO
seventy dollars. For this. whether he secure. the
prize or not, the inventor will have patont that
ought to be valuable property to him. The prize
will be awarded BY nIury consisting Of three rop-
utablc patent attorney OF Washington Intending
competitions should fill cut the following blank.