Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-04-06
PRIZES ON PATENTS,
How to Get Twenty-Five Hun,
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner has "A Gle ar Gii6 OF q
Small Fortune, and tho
Losers Have Patents that
May Bring Them In
Still More.

SAL More.
Would you like to make twenty-five hum
dred dollars II you would read carefully
what follows and you may see q way 10 90 10.
The Press Claims Company devotes m acU
attention to patents. IL has handled th0us.
ands OF applications for Inventions but II
would like to handle thousands more. There
is plsnty OF inventive talent OF large in .hs
country needing nothing but encourage eat
TO produce practical results. TIA, oloa sr--
egement the Press Claims Company pro-
poses to give.
nor 80 TAkn IS 1T sNEr3-
A patent strikes most veope 20 m aDE ALL
ingly formidable thing. Tie idea is that au
inventor must be a natural genius, iike i.di-
son or Bell; that be must devote years TO
delving in complicated mechln cal probe ms
and that he must spend - fortune or delicate
experiments before ne can get tt new device
to patentable degree of perfection. Tn.s
delusion the company desires TO dspel. Il
desires to get into the head OF the public
clear comprehension Of the fact snat S. Is
not the great complex and expensive in
ventions that bring tbs best returns 10 t3oiT
authors, but the little, simple, and Ct cap
one-the things that seem 30 aOsucL!y
trivial that the average citizen would feel
somewhat ashamed oil bringing them to the
attention of the Patent Office.
Ed son says that the profits he has re-
csived from the patents on all his marvellous
inventions have not been sufficient to pay
the cost of his experiments. But tue man
who conceived the idea OF fastening n bit o.
rubber cord to n chilI's ball, SO that it
would come back to the bnnd when thrown,
made a fortune out OF his Sc eNe. Tho
modern sewing machine is miracle of in
mi ha cd M = In to- ut d.
of busy brains through hundr.c and fifty
years. but the whole brilliant resu!, rssts
upon the simple device Of putting the oys
OF the needle at the point instead OF at the
other end.
TIE LITTLE THINGS THE a. OSr VAL
UABLE.
Comparatively few people regard them
selves as inventors, but almost everybody
has been struck, at time or another,
with ideas that seemed calculated to reduce
some of the little frictions 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 III | vera
running the road l would make them in
such a way"
pan thinking ofE' Grumb,es the cook. -
"He never had to work over stove, or he
would have known how it ought TO have
been fixed. "
Hang such collar button ~ growls the
man who is late for breakfast. IF we're
in the business I'd make buVtons that
wouldn't slip ous, or break of, or eouge
out the back OF my neck. "
And then the various sufferers forget
about their grievances and begin 20 hiuk Of
something else II they would sit down at
the next convenient opportunity. put their
ideas about windows, saucepans, and
collar buttons into practical shape, and
then apply for patents, they might find
themselves as Independently wealthy IS the
man who invented the iron umbrella ring,
or the one who patented the fifteen puzzle.
a TEaI"TANG ottEH.
To induce people to keep traek Of their
bright ideas and what there is il them,
the Press Claims Company Lac re.o vel to
offer prize.
To the person rho subr. It's to Il the
simplest and most promSng pcec iou,
from, commercial point of cie,e. IT,, cln,-
pang ,oiN gire tUenty FIRE bnndred douors
in cash, in addition to ref,odlng the
fees for securing the potcat
II rW also advertise the iaceo'ioa freq
Of charge.
This offer is subjec. to the following cen.
dtiors
Every competitor must obtain pateut
for his invention through the company. ha
must first apply for preliminary search,
the cost of which will be five dollars
Should this search show his uvsntiou to be-
unpatentable, he withdraw without
| further expense. Otherwise he will be ex-
| pected to complete his application and take
out patent in regular way. The total ex
pense including Government and Bureau
fees, will be seventy dollars. For this,
whether be secures the priz, Or not, the in
ventor will have patent that ought to bs
! a valuable property to him. The prize Will
/ be awarded by jury consisting of three
reputable patent attorneys OF Washington.
Intending competitors should fl out the
following blsnk, and forward It with their
applications
81 submit the within described invention
/ ip comDetition for tho TUarty -f1a HIM