Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-06-29
Prizes on Paten.s-
How to Get Twenty ave Hundred
Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner has Clear Git Of 4 Small
Fortune, and the Losers Have
Patents that may Bring
Them IN Still
More.

Them IN Still
More.
Would you like to make twenty tive
hundred dollarsp II you would read
carefully what follows and you naY see
way to do it.
The Press Claims Company devotes
much attentiOt TO patents. 1t has ham
died thousands Of applications for in
veDtloDs, but 1t would like to handle
thousands more. There is plenty of iu-
ventive talent at large mth,s country,
needing no,h;ng but encouragement to
produce practical results. That en-
couragemeDt the Press Claims Company
proposes to give.
NOT so HARD AS 1T SEEMS
patent strikes most people as an
appallingy formidable thing. The idea
|1s, that an inventor must be a natural
genius, like Edison or Bell, that he
must devote years to delvlng In COM
plicated mechanical problems and that
he must spend fortune on delicate
experiment. before he Can get new
| device to paten:able degree OF per-
| lection. This delusion the company
| desires to dispel. 1t desires to get into
| the head of the public clear compre-
| hension of the fact that 1t IS not the
great, complex, and expensive lnven-
| lions tina. bring he best returns TO their
authors, but the little, simple, and
cneap ones--;he things that seem so
absurdly trivial that tne average citizen
would feel somewhat ashamed of bring
| ING them 20 the attention ui the Pateut
| Office
| Edison says that the profits he re-
ceived from the patents on ali his mar
velous inventions have not been suffici-
ent 10 pay the cost of his experiments,
Blu; the man who conceived the idea of
fastening bit of rubber cord to y
cnild's ball SO that it would come back
to the hand when thrown, made for
tune out Of his scheme. The modern
sewing machine is miracle Of ingenua
ity-the product of the loil OF hun
| dreds of busy brains through hum
| dred and fitty 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 THINGS THE MOST vALu-
Comparatively few people regard
themselves as inventors, but almost
everybody has been struck, 1T one time
or another, with ideas that seemed cal
culated to reduce some OF the little fric-
tion OF life. Usually such ideas are
dismissed without further thought,
ssWhy don't the railroad company
make its car windows so that they can
be slid up and down without breaking
the passenger baoksf" exclai.ns the
traveller. III were running the road
would make them in such way. y
"What was <the man tha. made thus
saucepan thlnkiIg of grumbles the
0ook. s.He never had to work over 3
stove, or he would have known how It
ought to have been iixed.''
Hang such COLLAR bntton!" growls
the man who is late to breakfast. III
were in the business I'd maze buttons
that wouldn't slip .ut, or break off, or
gouge out the back OF my neck. -
| And then the vari0us sufferers forget
their grievances aud begin to think Of
something else. Iftney 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 lind themselves ~ independently
wealthy IS the man who invented the
iron umbrellas ring, or the one who pat
enled the fifteen puzzse.
TEsIPTING OFFER.
! To induce peop.e to keep tract 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 and most promising invention,
from q commercial point OF view, the
company will give twensy-fge hundred
dollars in cash, in addition 70 refundlng
the fees for securing the patent.
1t viii, also advertise tho invention
free Of charge.
This offer is subject to the following
conditions. Every competitor must
obsain patent for his invention through
The company. He must first apply TOR
p s>prellminary search, the cost Of which
will be five dollars. Should this search
show his invention To be unpatentable.
he can withdraw without further ex-
pense. Otherwise he will DO expected
to complete his application and take
out patent in the regular way. The
total expense. including Government
and Bureau feos, will be seventy dollars
For this, whether he secnres the nrjxe
or not. the Inventor will have i patent
that ought 70 be valuable property 10
him. The prize viii be awarded 6ya
Jury cOmsiStipg If three reputable patane