Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-05-27
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get Twenty i've Hundred
Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner Has q Clear GIFT Of Small
F0rtuaes and the Losers Have
Patents That Hay Brine
Them Still Aors.

Would you like to make twenty-five
hundred dollars? II you would, read
carefully what follows and you may see
way to do it.
The Press Claims Company sdevotes
much attention to patents. 1t has han
died thousands of applications for inven-
tions, but it would like to handle thou
sands more. There is plenty Of inven-
tive talent at large in this country, need.
ing nothing but encouragement to pro-
duce practical results. That encourage
ment the Press Claims Company pro-
poses to give.
NOT so HARD AS IT SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people as an
appallingly formidable thing. The idea
is that an inventor must be natural ge-
MUS, like Edison or Bell; that he must
devote years to delving in complicated
mechanical problems and that he must
spend fortune on delicate experiments
before he can get new device to pat
entable degree Of perfection. This delu-
sion the company desires to dispel. 1t
desires to get into the head Of the public
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 Ones-the things that seem 80 alb.
surdly trivial that the average citizen
would feel somewhat ashamed of bring
'SS ,esn to the attention OF the Patent
Edison says that the profits he has re-
ceived from the patents on all his mar
velOus inventions have not been suffi-
cient to pay the cost of his experiment..
But the man who conceived the idea of
fastening bit of rubber cord to a child's
ball, so that it would return back to the
hand when thrown. made a fortune out
of his scheme. The modern sewing ma
chine Is a miracle Of ingenuity-the pro-
duct Of the toll of hundreds Of busy
brains through a 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 ut the
other end.
THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST VALUABLE.
Comparatively few people regard them
selves rs inventors, but almost every
body has been struck, at one time or
another, with ideas that seemed calcu-
lated to reduce some of the little fric-
tions of life. Usually such ideas are
dismissed without further thought.
"Why don't the railroad company
make it's Car wiRdows 90 that they can
be slid up and down without breaking
the passengers backs?" cxclaims the
! traveller. "lf were running the road
would make them in such a way"
hat <1A4 l.
saucepan thinking off" grumbles the
cook. "He never had to work over q
stove, or he would have known how 1t
ought to have been fixed"
Hang such collar button!" growls
the man who is late for breakfast. eli
were in the business I'd make buttons
that wouldn't slip out, or break of, 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 car windows, sauce
pans, and collar buttons into practical
shape, and then apply for patents, they
might find themselves rs independently
wealthy as the man who invented the
iron umbrella ring, or the one who
patented the fifteen puzzle.
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 ,sho submits to it
the simplest and most promising in.
uention. from a commercial point Of
vie,c, the company soiU give s,centy>
toe hundred dollars in cash, in ad.
dstio,s to refanding the fees for secur.
ing the patent.
1t OiU also advertise the inven.
tion free Of charge.
This offer is subject to the following
lcOnditiONs.