Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-06-29
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get Twenty-Five HuM
drcd Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner has a Clcar Gilt of q
Small Fortune, and the
Losers Have Patents that
May bring Them in
Still More.

dreu dollars . II you would, reOI carefully
what follows and you may SEQ n way TO do 1t.
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. 1t has handled thouss
ands OF applications for Inventions but it
would like to handle thousands more. Thsru
Is plenty OF inventive talent at large in this
country needing nothing but encouragement
TO produce practical results Tuat sncour-
agement the Press Gains Company pro4
poses to give.
NOT so HARD As IT SEEMS
patent strikes most people as appalI-
ingly formidable thing. The idea is that an
inventor must be natural genius, like Edt-
son or Bell: that he muet devote years to
delvlng in complicated mechanical problems
and that he must spend fortune deIicata
experiments before he can get new device
TO a patsntsble degree Of perfection. THIS
delusion the company desires to dispel. IT
desires to get into the hend of the public q
clear comprehension OF the fact tnat it is
not the great complex ard expensive in
voutions that bring thu best returns to thcir
authors, but the little, simple and chesp
one-the things that seem 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 re-
ceived from the patents on all his marveious
inventions haze not been sufficient to pay
the cost of his experiments. But tue man
who conceived the idea of fastening a bit of
rubber cord to q child's ball, SO that it
would come back to tue hand when thrown,
made fortune out OF his sctome. Tae
modern sewing machine Is a miracle of in
genuity-the product OF tbs toll OF hundreds
of busy brains through hundred and fifty
years, but the whole brilliant result Fests
81, -, 10 auto -
OF the needle at the point instead OF at tina
other end.
TIE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST VAL
GABLE.
Comparatively lew people regard them-
selves Us inventors, but almost every body
has been struck, at ous time or another,
with idens that seemed calculated TO reduce
some OF the little frict.ons OF life Usuailv
such ideas are dismissed without further
thought.
"Why don't the railroad company make
its car windows 80 that they eau b9 sill up
and down without breaking the pc.sangers'
backs" exclarns tue traveller. "If | were
running the road l would make them in
such way
What was the man that made tbs sauce
pan thinking or grumbes the cock"
he never had TO work over q stove, or hs
would have known how j. ought TO have
been fixed.
Hang such collar button ~ grow.s the
man " 40 is late for breakfast. III I were
in toe business Ia make buttoai that
wouldn't slip OUT, or break OH, c. gouge
out the sck Of my mock. "
And Irel the various sufferers forget
abou. their grievances and begin 20 think OF
something else. II they would sit down ct
the next convenient opportunity. INT their
ideas about car windows, eauce2aus, and
collar buttons into Ira-ticNl shAp9, and
then apply FOR patents, they mi14t Ind
themselves SIS Independently WEALTHY IS the
man Who inverted the iron nqlbrsua ring,
or tbs one who pateatli the fifteen puzzle.
TT1!PrING 0tIEy;.
To induce people to keep track CT thaiN
bright ideas anG sse what there is 10 them,
tie Press Gains Company has resolved to
oGer Prize.
TO the person Uho SUBMITS 70 il TIC
simplest ond most promising ,nrcntion,
from It commercial p,i}t Of cje'e, tts coma
po1Y wU gjre tlcnNy.Gre handred do'iors
in cash, in odaittoa 20 rc'tnJ'ay tho
fees for securing the puteat
II lciU also odrefise tie i1rea';on Jrea
Of charge.
This olier !n subject TO the following con-
6itious
Every competitor must obtain a patent
for his invention through the company. Ha
must first apply for a preliminary search,
the cost of which viii be five dollars.
Should this search show his uyention to DO,
snpateutablc, he eau withdraw Without
further expense. Otherwise he WIN be ex-
pectel TO complete his application and take
out a patent IN regular way. The total ex-
pense including Government and Bureau.
fees, Will be seventy dollars For this
whether be secures the PRIZE or no., the in
veutor will Lave a patent tia, ought to bs
a valuable property to him. The pcize Will
be awarded 10y jury consisting o. thres
reputable patent attorneys of Washington.
Intending competitors should f.l out thu
following blank, and forward it with their
applications
II submit the within described Invention
In competition for the Twenty fly. Hun
bred Dollar Prize offered by tho Press
Claims Company.
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