The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-09
PRIZES ON PATENTS,
How to Get Twenty-Five Hun.
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner has a Clear Gift ~
Small Fortune, and the Losers
Have Patents that NAV.
Bring them in Still
More,

Would you like to make twenty-five In,
dollars? If you would, read carefully WIN rbba.
follows and you may see a way to do Il !
The Press Claims Company devotes m,
attention to patents. 1t has handled tb"nan
ands of applications for Inventions. hnt :,
would like to handle thousands more, Tbons
is plenty of Inventive talent at large in tb III
country, needing nothing but encouragement
to produce practical results. That enc0nrara
ment the Press Claims Company pronosas ).
give.
NOT SO HARD AS 1T SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people al an .r
palliugly formidable thing. The idea is thai
an inventor must be Il natural genius. liko
| Edison or Bell that he must devote wears ~
| deIving in complicated mechanical prohIama
| and that he must spend a fortune on delicatoo
| experiments before he can get a new device
to a patentable degree of perfection. Tb;s
| delusi0n the company desires to dispeI T.
| desires to get into the head Of the public a
| clear comprehension of the fact that It ia mt
| the great, complex, and expensive inventions
that bring the best returns to their authors
but the little, simple and cheap ones-tbsa
| 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 he has received
from the patents on all his marvellous ipyen.
| lions have not been sufficient to pay the cost
of his experiments. But the man who con.
ccived the idea of fastening Il bit of rubber
cord 70 IL clild's ball, so that it would coma
back to the hand when thrown, made a for.
| tune out of his scheme. The modern sewing.
| machine is u miracle of ingenuity-the pr0.
/ duct of the toll of hundreds of busy brains
through a hundred and fifty years, but the
whole brilliant result rest upon the simple
device IF putting the eye of the needle at the
,.,i,t ;,,Sfaaf nf nf fhn thor and
THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST yALU-
ABLE.
Comparatively few people regard them
selves as inventors, but almost everybody has
been struck, at one time or another, with
ideas that seemed calculated to reduce some
Of the little f~rictions of life. Usually such
IDEAS are dismissed without further thought
"Why don't the railroad company make its
car windows so that they can be slid up and
down without breaking the passengers
backs2" exclaims the traveller. IF were
running the road l would make them in such
a way"
"What was the man that made this sauce
pan-thinking Off" grumbles the cook. "He
never had to work over a stove, or he would
have known how it ought to have been
fixed"
Hang snch ii collar buttons T. growls the
man who is late for breakfast. elf | were in
he business I'd make buttons that wouldn't
slip nut or break off, or gOuge out the back
of my meek
Aud the,, the various sufferers forget about
their grievances and begin to think of some
thing else. If they would sit down at the
next convenient opportunity, put their ideas
about car windows, saucepans, and collar
buttons into practical shape, and then apply
for patents, they might find themselves as
independently wealthy rs the man who in.
vented the iron umbrelIa 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 is in them,
the Press Claims Company has resolved to
offer "A 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
patent.
Tt will also sdvertise the invention
free of charge.
This offer is subject to the following condl
tions:
Every competitor must obtain Il patent for
his invention through the company. He must
first apply for preliminary search, the cost of
which will be FIVE dollars. Should this search
show Ills invention to be unpateutable, he can
without further expense. Other
wise he will he expected to complete his APP
pIication and take out a patent in the regular
way The total expense, including Govern
and Bureau fees. will be evenly loi.
lars. For this, whether he secures the prize
or not. the inventor will have a patent that
nughi tn le IA valuable property to him. The
prize will be- awarded by IA jury consisting of
lowing blank, and forward it with their applt
cation