The Opelousas courier., 1893-09-02
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get Twenty-Five Hun.
dred Dollars for NOthYI II II
The Winner has a Clear Gift OF, a
Small Fortune, and the Losers
Have Patents that may.
Bring them in Still
More.

Bring them in Still
More.
Would you like to make twenty-five hun
dollars2 If you would, read carefully what
follows aud you may see q way to do it.
The Press Claims Company devotes mucl
attention to patents. It has handled thous,
ands of applications for inventions, but il
would like TO handle thousands mo1c. Ticrt
is plenty Of Inventive talent at large In this
country, needing nothing but encouragement
to produce practical results. That encourage
| mcnt the Press Claims Company proposes Il
give.
NOT so I0ARD AS 1T SEEMS.
A patcnt sftKes most people "a an al
paIiingly formidable thing, The idea is that
an inventor must be Il natural genius like
Edison or Bell that he must devote years to
delvipg in complicated mechanical problems
and that he must spend a fortune on delicate
to a ratentable degree of perfection. This
delusion the company desires to dispel. Ii
desires to get into the head of the public a
clear comprehension of the fact that it is not
the great, complex, and expensive inventions
that bring the best returns to their authors,
but the little, simple and cheap onos-tlc
things that seem 80 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 he has received
from the patents on all his marvellous iuycn.
tions have not been sufficient to pay the cost
of his experiments. But the man who COR.
ceived the idea of fastening a biz Of rubber
cord To a child's ball, so that il would come
back to the hand wheu thrown, made ii for,
tune out Of his scheme. The modern sewing.
machine is q miracle of ingenuity-tha pro.
duct Of the toll Of hundreds Of busy brains
through a hundred and fifty years, bat the
whole brilliant result rest upon tho simple
device of putting the eye Of the needle 8t tho
point Instead of at tbs other eud.
THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST VALU-
ABLE.
Comparatively few people regard them.
selves az inventors, but almost everybody has
beeu struck, at one time or another, with
ideas that seemed calculated to reduce some
of the little ~frictions of life. Usually such
ideas are dismissed without further thought.
WHY dnn' the railroad company make ite
car wihepws so that they can De Slid up and
down ,antthout breaking the p~aeLrngars'
b4ekaT e4ciaims the Traveller, If were
ranrA,g tue road would make them Ia such
d way"
What was the man that made this Sauce
pan thinking OFF," grumbles the cook. He
never had to work overaf stove, or he would
have known how it Ought to have been
fixed"
Hang such q collar button T. growIs the
man who is late for breakfast. "If l were in
tue business I'd make buttons that wouldn't
slip out, or break of. Or gouge cut the back
of my neck"
And then the various sufferers forget abou;
their grievances aud begin to think of some
thing else. II they would sit down at the
next convenient opportunity, put their ideas
about oar windows, saucepans, and collar
buttons into practical shape, and then apply
for patents, they might find themselves as
wealthy as the man who In.
the iron umbrella ring, or the one
who patented the fifteen puzzle.
A TEMPTING OFFER.
To induce people to keep track Of their
bright ideas and see what there ia in them,
the Press Claims Company has resolved to
u prize.
To the person who submits to it the
Simplest and most promising inven-
ton, from a commercial point of view,
the company will give twenty-five
hundred dollars in cash, In addition to
refunding the fees for securing the
It will also sdverttse the invention
Iree Of charge,
This offer is subject to the following condi
Every competitor must ootaln O parent Tor
1is invention through the company. He must
irst apply for preliminary search, the cos' aF
which will be five dollars. Should this sparcl:
how his invention to be unpatentable, he ca#
without further expense. Other.
wise he will be expected to complete his ap.
.olication aud take out a patent in the regular
way. This total expense, including Govern
nent and Bureau fees, will be seventy dol.
ars. For this, whether he secures he prize
IT not, the inventor will have Il patent that
'ught to be q valuable property to him. The
,rize will be awarded By a jury consiating of
hree reputable attorneys of Washington.
Intending competitors should fill out the fol.
blank, and forward it with their appli
alton: