Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-08-24
Prizes on Patents-
How to Get Twenty i've Hundred
Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner has Clear GIFT Of Small
Fortune, and the Losers Have
Patents that may Bring
Them In Still
More.

Would you like to make twenty i've
hundred dollarsP II you would read
carefully what follows and you may see
a way to do it.
The Press Claims Company devotes
much attention 10 patents. Il has ham
died thousands of applications for in
veDtlons, but it would like to handle
thousands more. There is plenty of in
ventive talent at large in this country,
needing nothing but encouragement to
produce practical results. That en-
couragementth The Press Claims Company
proposes to give.
NOT so HARD AS IT SEEMS.
pateEt strikes most people as an
appallingly formidable thing. The idea
IL that an inventor must be natural
genius. like Edison or Bell, that he
must devote years to delvlng in COM
pllcated mechanical problems and that
he must spend a fortune on delicate
experiment before hSEtan get new
device to a paten.abie degree ot per-
lection. This delusion the scOmpany
desires to dispel. It desires to get into
the head Of the public clear compre-
shension Of the fact that 1t IS not the
great complex, and expensive inven-
iions tha. bring The best returns to their
authprs. but the little, simple, and
cneap ones-she things that seem so
.absurdly trivial that the average citizen
would feel Somewhat ashamed of bring-
ing them 20 the attention Of the Patent
Office
Edison Gays that the profits he re-
cetyedlfr0m the patents on ali his mar
velous Inventions have not been sufjici-
ent 10 pay the cost of his experiments,
Bu; the man who conceived the idea OF
fastening bit Of rubber cord to q
child $ ball, SO that it would come back
10 the land when thrown, made a for
tune out Of his scheme The modern
sewing machine is q miracle of ingenuS
ity--the proouct of the loil of hun
dreds 81 busy brains through hun
dred and iitty yealss but the whole
brilliant result rests upon lne simple
device Of putting the eye of the needle
at the point insfead of at the olaner end
THE AlRTE fHIKGs THE MOST vALu-
Comparatively aw people regard
thensRlvcs .as inFen3orIls but si;nnst
every body has bsesa ftruck. ii one time
or anotn ner, deAs tbaf seemed cal-
culated 10 fednes no ma Or The little Tie
tionaof life. sst&1ly such ideas are
dismissed withapt 46rtlIor thought.
ssWhy don the railroad cnmpanv.
make its car wsil1ows so that they can
be slid up and dowR without breakiDp
the passenger backs?u exclaims the
traveller. III were rniining the road
! would make them in such q way. =
"Wlrat was the man tba. made this
saucepan thsnklDg ot'' grumbles the
cook. s,He never had to work over
stove, or he would have known how it
ought tohave been fixed. =
Hang such collar button!', growIs
the man who is late to breakfast. If |
were in the business I'd MAKE buttons
that wonldn't slip cut, or break off, or
gouge out the back OF my neck. =
And then the various sufferers forget
their grievances and begin to think OF
something else Iftney would sit down
at the next convenient opportunity, put
their ideas about car windows, sance-
pans and collar buttons into practical
shape, and then apply for patents. they
might find themselves As independently
wealthy as The man who Invented the
iron umbrella ring, or the one who pat
ented the fifteen puzzle.
A TEMPTING OFFER.
TO induce peop.e 10 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 . commercial point OF view, The
company will give twenty-five hundred
dollars in cash, in addition to refunding
the fees for securing the patent.
1t will also advertise the 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
. preliminary search, the. cost Of which
will be five dollars. Should this search
show his invention to be unpatentable,
be can Withdraw without further ex-
pense. Otherwise he will be expected
TO complete his application and take
out ! patent in the regular way. The
total expense. including Government
and Bureau fees, will be eeventy dollars
For this, whether he secures the prize
or not. the Inventor will have patent
that ought 20 be q valuable property 10
him. The prize will be awarded by q
jury consistipg Of three reputable patent
attorneys OF Washington. Amending
comneffkora ,honld fsli rn< m 81 u -