The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-07-06
PRIZES ON PATENTS
THE WINNER HAS A CLEAR
GIFT OF $4,000, AND THE
LOSERS HAVE PATEN ITS
THAT My BRING THEM IN
STILL MORE.

STILL MORE.
Would you like TO make twenty-five hun
dred dollars2 If you would. read carefully
what follows and you may see way 10
do It,
The Press Claims Company devotes
much attention to patents. 1t has handled
thousands of applications for inventions,
but it would like 10 handle thousands more.
There is plenty of inventive talent at
large in this country, needing nothing
but announcement to produce practical
results. That encouragement the Press
Claims Company proposes to give.
Nor So HARD AS IT SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people as an APP
pallingly formidable thing. The idea is
that an inventor must be a natural genius,
like Edison or Bell; that he must devote
years to delving in complicated mechanical
problems and that he must spend for
tune on delicate experiments before he can
get new device TO patentable degree OF
perfection. This deluson the company
desires to dispel 1t desires to get into
the public clear comprehension of the
fact that it is not the great, complex, and
expensive inventions that bring the best
returns to their authors, but the little, SIM
pie and cheap ones-the things that seem
30 absurdly trivial that the average citizen
would feel somewhat ashamed of bring
ing them to the attention OF the Patent
Office.
Edison says that the profits he has re-
ceiyed from the patents on all his mar
velous inventions have not been sufficient
to pay the cost of his experiments. But
the man who conceived the idea OF fasten-
ing bit of rubber cord TO child's ball.
SO that it would come back to the hand
when thrown, made fortune out Of his
scheme. The modern sewing-machine Is
mracal OF ingenuity-the product OF
the toll of hundreds OF busy brains
through hundred and fifty 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-
ABLE.
Comparatively few people regard them
selves as inventors, but almost every body
has been struck, at one time or another,
with ideas that seemed calculated to re-
duce some of the little frictions of life
Usually such ideas are dismissed without
further thought.
"Why don't the railroad company make
It's car windows SO that they can be slid
up and down without breaking the pas
sengers' backs?" exclaims the traveller.
III were running the road would make
them N such way"
What was the man that made this
saucepan thinking Off" grumbles the
cook. He never had to work over a
stove, or he would have known how II
ought to have been fixed"
Hang such collar buttonl" growls
the man who is late for breakfast. IF
were in the business I'd make buttons
that wouldn't slip out, break off, Oh
gouge out the back OF my neck"
Aud then the various sufferers forge
about their grievances and begin to think
of something else. II they would si
down at the next convenient opportunity
put their ideas about the car windows
saucepans, and collar bnttons into pract
cal shape, and then apply for patents
they might find themselves as independ
entlypwealthy as the man who invented
the iron umbrella ring, or the one wht
patented the fifteen puzzle
A TEMPTING OFFER.
70 induce people 10 keep track of thei
bright ideas and see what there is in them
the Press Claims Company has resolved
to offer prize.
To the person who submits to 1t tn
simplest and most promising invention
from commercial point of view, tn
company will give twenty-five hundred
dollars in cash, in addition to refundin.
the fees for securing the patent.
II will also advertise the invention FIRE