Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-06-08
PRIZES ON PATENTS,
How to Get twenty-five Hun,
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner has a Gle ar Gift of t
Small Fortune, and tho
Losers Have Patents thai
Nay Bring Them in
Still More.

what follows and you may see o way to do 1t.
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. II hos handled thons.
ands OF applications for Inventions, but il
would like to handle thousands more. There
is plenty OF inventive talent at large in ths
country, needing nothing but encouragement
TO produce practical results. That enoour~
agement the Press Claims Company proI
poses to give.
NOT so HARD As IT SEEMS
patent strikes most people as an eppall-
iugly formidable thing. Tho den is that au
inventor must be s. natural genius, like Edi.
son or Bell, that he must devote years to
dslving in complicated mechanical problems
and that be must spend a fortune on delicate
experiments before he eau get new device
to u patenteblo degree OF perfection. THIS
delusiOn the company desires to dispel. IL
desires to get into the head of the public
clear comprehension Of the fact that it is
not tho great complex and expensive liz
ventions that bring this best returns to thetr
authors, but the little, simple, and cheap
one-tts things that seem so sbsurdly
trivial that the average citizen would feel
somewhat ashamed or bringing them to tho
attention of the Patent Office
Edison says that the profits he has re-
coive1 from the patents OIL all his marvellous
inventions havo not been sufficient 70 pay
the cost of his experiments. But the man
who conceived the idea OF fastening a bit OF
rubber cord to a chili's ball, so that ID
would come back to the hand whom thrown,
made fortune out OF MS scheme. The
modern sewing machine IS a miracle of in
Genuity-the product OK the toll OF hundreds
OF busy brains through hundred and fifty
years, but the whole brilliant result resta
upon the simple device OF putting the eye
OF the needle at the poinJ instead o. & tbs
other end
THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOSr VAL
UABIT.
Comparatively low people regard them-
selves as inventors, but almost every body
has been struck, at one time or another,
with ideas that seemed calculated to redu-s
some o. tue little fricto4s OF life. Equally
such ideas are disflsseI without further
thought.
why don't the railroad company mako
its cer windows so that thsy can be slid up
and down without breaking the passcngers'
backs" exclaims the traveller. IL l were
running the road l would mako them in
such a way"
What was tho man that made this sauce
pan thinking off, grumb,es the COOK
He never had to work over n stove, or hs
would have known bow = ought 20 have
been fixed.
"Eang such a collar button - growls the
man who is late for breakfast. az l were
in the business ID make bu,.ons that
wouldn't ship OUT, or break of, or gouga
OUT the back OF my neck
And then the various sufferers forget
about their grievances and begin 20 think Of
something else. II they would sit down at
tine next Convenient opportunity, put their
ideas about car windows saLcepGns, and
collar buttons into practical shape and
then apply for patents, thsy might find
themselves Is Independently wel.tGy IS the
man who invented the irou umbrella ring,
or the one who patented the fifteen pus4,o.
A TENPTING OFFER.
To induce people to keep track OF their
bright ideas and sec what thore d in them,
the Press Claims Company Laa resolved tn
offer prize
TO the person rho submits 20 IL To
simplest d.ld most promising inceu joa,
Jroa, u con.mercil' pojrt OF ric'c, tie COM
Pany ,cH gre t'rerty.fce Lnudyc5 doUor4
in cash, ia u9d1iou 70 rcfimJlnJ tie
fees tor securing the pattut
II rU also odccrtiss the mreatiou free
Of charge.
This offer is subject to the following cen.
ditions;
Every competitor must obtain o patent
FOR his invention through the company. lie
must first apply for preliminary search,
| the cost OF which VIII be five dollars
! Should this search show his invention to bs
uupatentabe, he can withdraw Without
further expense. Otherwise la VIII be ex-
rected to complete his application and take
| out patent in regular way. The TOTAL OK
pense including Governnent and Bureau
fees, will be seventy dollars. For this,