The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-07-20

THE WINNER HAS A CLEAR
GIFT OF 81, 500, AND THE
LOSERS HAVE PAT ENTS
THAT MAY BRING THEM IN
STILL MORE.

Would you like TO make twenty-five hun
dred dollars! If you would, read carefully
what follows and you may see a way to
do it,
The Press Claims Company devotes
much attention TO patents. 1t has handled
thousands applications for inventions,
but TIT would like to handle thousands more.
There is plenty of inventive talent at
large in this country, needing nothing
but announcement to produce practical
results. That encouragement the Press
Claims Company proposes to give.
Nor SO HARD As IT SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people as an APP
pallingly formidable thing. The idea is
that an inventor must be n natural genius,
like Edison or Bell; that he must devote
years TO delving in complicated mechanical
problems and that he must spend for
tune on delicate experiments before he can
get a new device to patentable degree of
perfection. This delusion the company
desires to dispe. II desires to get into
the public clear comprehension Of the
fact that ii is not the great complex, and
expensive inventions that bring the best
returns to their authors, but the little, sim
pie and cheap ones-the things that seem
so absurdly trivial that the average citizen
would feel somewhat ashamed of bring
ing them to the attention of the Patent
Office.
Edison says that the profits he has re-
ceiVed from the patents on all his mar
velous inventions have not been sufficient
TO pay the cost of his experiments. But
the man who conceived the idea of fasten-
ing bit of rubber cord to child's ball,
so that it would come back to the hand
when thrown, made a fortune out of his
scheme. The modern sewing machine is
n miracal 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 device of putting the eye Of the
needle at the point instead of at the other
end
THE LITTLE Times TIE MosT VALU-
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 re-
duce some of the little frictions 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 pas
sengers backsY' cxclaims the traveller
"lf | were running the road | would make
them N such a way"
What was the man that made this
saucepan thinking OFF, grumbles the
cook 'IIe never had to work over a
stove, or he would have known how it
ought to have been fixed"
Hang such collar button" growls
the man who is late for breakfast. IF |
were in the business I'd make buttons
that wouldn't slip out, break off, or
gouge out the back of my neck"
And then the various sufferers forget
about their grievances and begin to think
of something else. If they would sit
down at the next convenient opportunity,
put their ideas about the car windows
saucepans, and collar buttons into practi-
cal shape, and then apply for patents
they might find themselves as indepcnd-
emily wealthy as the man who invented
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 is in them,
the Press Claims Company has resolved
TO offer prize.
To the person who submits to it the
simplest aud most promising invention.
from commercial point OF view, the
company will give twenty-five hundred
dollars in cash, in addition to refunding
the fees for securing the patent
1t will also advertise the invention free
OF charge.
This offer Is subject to the following
conditions:
Every competitor must obtain patent
for his invention through the company.
He must first apply for preliminary
search, the cost of which will be five dol
lars. Should this search show his inven-
ton to be unpatentabc. he can Withdraw
without further expense. Otherwise he
will be expected to complete his applica.
ton and take out patent in the regular
way. The total expense including Gov
eminent and Buyean fees, will be seventy
dollars. For this, whether he secues tn,
prize or not, the inventor will have pat
ent that ought to be valuable property
TO him. The prize will be awarded by 1
jury consisting of three reputable paten
attorneys of Washington. Intending
competitors should fill out the following
blank and forward ii with their applca
ton:
81 submit the within described inVcn
ton in competition for the Twenty-fv,
hundred Dollar Prize offered by the Pres
Claims Company.