The Opelousas courier., 1893-11-18
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How TO Get Twenty-Five Hun
dred Dollars for Nothing
The Winner has a Clear Gilt OF d
Small Fortune, and the Losers
Have Patents that may
Bring them in Still
More.

more.
Wonld Won like to make twenty-five nun
.dolIars? If You would, read carefully "hat
folIoUa and YOU may see a way 10 90 IL
The Press Claims Company deyotes ianeh
attention to patents. 1t has handled tno"?t
ands of applications for Inventions W ~
would like to handle thousands more. lhere
is nlentv of inventive talent at large IN TINS
country, needing nothing but encouragement
10 produce practical results. That encourage
ment the Press Claims Company proposes tG
give.
NOT so HARD AS 1T SEEMS. =
A patent strikes most people as an ap.
naIlinglv formidable thing. The idea Is tnaC
an inventor must be II natural genus, IKE
Edi.on or Bell; that he must devote years to
drIying in complicated mechanical prohlenls
and that he must spend Il fortune on dellcato
experiments before he can get a ne" denite
to Il patrntabie degree OF perfection. lh!s
lriusiun the cnlnpa1N desires to hiapei: IL
desire, to Get into the head OF the public a
clear cnmprehension of the fact that it Is not
the great, complex, and expensive Inventions
that bring the best returns to their authors
bur the little, simp}'' and cheap oteS-tne
thinos that see IN so ahsurdly TRIVIAL mat the
average citizen Wonid fetl somewhat a7ila"l1"
of bringing them 10 the at'Fnt'"" |" u
Patent Office.
Edison SAYS that the profits lt has received
from HE patents on all his marvellous lnHtiI-
tiou4 have not been sufficient to pay the cost
of his experiments But the man who con
rriyt.d the idea nffaatening a bit OF rubber
cord 10 a ci,ild'a hail. =" that It W"iil't come
hack Ia The. iurI WirG thrown, nadr Il tor
tune our Of his arheme. The modern sewing
machine is a miracle ct nSenniiy-tht pr"
duet ~ the toll Of hundreds OF busy brains
thlnugl hundred and fifty Years, but the
Nlnin brilliant result rest npnn the simple
device of putting the eye of the needle at the
Doiut instead OF at the other end.
III LITTLE THINGS 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 reduce some
of the little %trictions 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
backs}" exclaims the traveller. If | were
running the road [ would make them in such
a way"
What was the man that made this sauce
nan thinking of" grulnhIes the cook. He
never had to work over a stove, or he would
have known how it ought to have been
fixed"
Hang such ID collar button! = groWts the
man who is late for breakfast. "If 1 were III
the business I'd make bnttnns that wouldn't
S4lP bht' Va b''F } 'i' - H'"o' 1890
OF my neck
And then the varions 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
ahont car windows, sancepans, and collar
buttons into practical shape, and then apply
for patents, they might find themselves as
independently wealthy as the man who in
vented the iron umbrella ring, or the one
who patented the fifteen puzzle.
A TEMPTING OFFER.
TO indnce people to keep track of their
bright ideas and see what there is i'll them,
the Press Claims Company has resolved to
offer ii 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.
It will also advertise the invention
free of charge.
This offer is subject to the following condl
tions:
Every competitor must obtain IA patent for
his invention through the company. He must
first apply for preliminary search. the cost OF
Wnlcn VIII ut iNt tuiidIS' onouli thiS StdICh
show his invention to be unpatentable, he can
withdraw without further expense. Other
wise he will be expected to complete his APP
p~lication aud take out a patent in the regular
way. The total expense, including Govern
ment and Bureau fees, will be seventy dol
lars. For this, whether he secures the prize
or not, the inventor will have a patent that
ought to be a valuable property to him. The
prize will be awarded by a jury consisting of
three reputable attorneys of Washington.
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lowing blank, and forward il with their appli-
cation