Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-08-17

urea uOharh II you WOuld, reau care1uHJ
what follows andyou may see a way to do IT.
The Press Claims Company devo.es much
attention to patents. 1t has handed thous'
ands OF applications for inventions, but il
would like to handle thousands more. There
is plenty OF inventive talent at large in this
country, needing nothing but encouragement
TO produce practical results. That encour-
agement tho Press Claims Company pros
poses to give.
NOT 30 HARD AS 1T sEEoHs
patent strikes most people as an sppelk
ihgly formidable thing. The idea is that aa
inventor must bs natural genius, litss EdH
or Boil that he must devote years ia
dolving in complicated mechanical problems
nEd that he must spend fortune on de!ionts
experiments before he csn get new devica
to patentable degree of perfection. This
dslus.on the company desires to dispel. 10
desires to got into the head OF, the publioa
clear comprehension of the fact that it ID
not the great scomplex aad expensive in-
ventions that bring tina bost returns to their
authors, but the little, simple, and cheaE
one--the things that seam so absurdiy
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-
csved from the patents on all his marveious
inventions have not been sufficient to pay
the cost of his experiments But the man
who conceived the idea of fastening bit Of
rubber cord to a chnd's ball, go that it
would come back to the hand when thrown
made fortune out OF his scheme Tha
modern sewing machine is 4 miracle Of in
genuity-the product OF tho toll OF huudreds
of busy brains through hundred and fifty
years but the whole brilliant result rests
upon the simple device of putting tho eye
of the needle at the point instead of at tho
other end.
THE LITTLE THINGS TIE MOST VAL,
liable.
Comparatively few people regard them,
selves as inventors, but almost everybody
has been struck, at one time or another,
with ideas that seemed calculated 20 reduces
some OF the little frictions of lie. Usually
such ideas are dismissed without further
thought
'Why don't the railroad company mako
! its car windows so that they can be slid up
and down without brenkiuE the passengers
backs| excalms the traveicr. az were
running the road | would make them in
/ such way. -
"|That was the man that made this saucs-
| pan thinking of:n grulnbes the cook.'
he never had to work over stove, or hd
would have known how it ought TO hava
been dxed.n
Hang such collar button - grows tine
man who is late for breakfast ''It | were
in tbs business Ia MAKE buttons that
wouldn't slip out, or b.a.k OF, or gouga
out the back OF my mock.
aud then the various sufferers forget
about their grievances aud begin TO think of
something else. If they would sit down az
the re1t convenient opportunity, put their
ideas about car windows, saucepans and
collar buttons into practical shape, and
then apply for patents, tnsy might ind
themselves as Independently wealthy 81 tha
man who invented the iron umbrella ring,
or tho one who patented the fifteen puzzle.
y TEMPTING OiNEH.
To induce people 70 keen track of their
bright ideas and sec What there il ia them,
the Press Claims Company las resolved to
offer a prize.
To the person pio srjm is to it the
simplest o"d most promising inrep5ion,
from q commercial print Of rje,c, the cJin-
pdng cW girc twsutH.f"o hundred dollars
in cash, Ia dddjtiou to reJimdlHy thd
fees for securing the la'eat
II 'rW also ddrerfiSa the iHrcHtion j'rcs
Of charge.
This oNor is subject to the following con-
ditions
Every competitor must obtain patent
for his invention through the company. Hs
must first apply for preliminary search,
the cost of which will be five dollars.
Should this search show his ven ton to 10
unpateutable, he can withdraw without
further expense. Otherwise he wih be ex-
pectel to complete his application and take
out patent in regular way. The rotal ex-
pense including Government and Bureau
fees, will be seventy dollars. For this,
wheTher he secures the prizs or not The in
ventor will have patent that ought to be
G valuable property to him. The prize will
be awarded Ivy jury consisting OF TIRES
reputable patent attorneys OF Wa9hingt ton.
Intending competitors should I'll out the
following blank, and forward it with their
applications
''--------,, 1898.
81 submit the within described invention
in competition for the Twenty five Hun
bred Dollar Prize offered by the Press
Claims Company.
NO BLANKS IN THIS COMPETITION.
This is competition Of rather an I'M
usual nature. 1t IS common to oRer prizes