Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-06-01
Prizes on Patenls-
How to Get Twenty five Hundred
Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner has Clear GIFT of a Small
Fortune, and the Losers Have
Patents that may Bring
Them IN Still
More.

hundred dollarsP Ii you would read
carefully what follows and you may see
way to do it.
The Press Claims Company devotes
mucn attention to patents. IL has ham
dled thousands OF applications for in
veDtlons, but it would like to handle
thousands more. There is plenty of in
ventiye talent at large i'll this country,
needing nothing out encouragement To
produce practical results. That en-
couragement the Press Claims Company
proposes to give.
NOT SO HARD AS 1T SEEMS.
patent strikes most people az an
appaiiingly formidable thing. The idea
is that All inventor must be natural
genus, ike Edison or Bell, that he
must devote years 10 delving IN COM
pi.cated mechanical problems and that
ne must spend fortune on delicate
experiment. before he can get II new
device 10 palen.able degree OF per-
lection. THIS delusion the company
desires to dlspel. 1t desires to get into
the head OF the public clear compre-
hension Of the fact that It Is not the
great. complex, and expensive lnven-
tions thai bring the best returns to their
authors, but the little, simple, and
cheap ones-the things thu seem so
absurdly trivial that the average citizen
would feet somewhat ashamed Of bring
ing them 70 the attention vi the Patent
Office
Edison says that the profits he re-
ceiVed from the patents on ali his mar
yelous Inventions have not been suifici-
ent 10 pay the cost of his experiments,
But the man who conceived the idea OF
fastening a bit of rubber cord to a
cnild's ball, SO that it would come back
to the Land when thrown, made a for-
tune out OF his scheme. The modern
sewing machine is miracle of ingenus
ity-the product of the toll of hun
dreds of busy brains through hun
dred and fifty years, but the whole
brilliant result rests upon The simple
device of putting the eye uf The needle
at the point instead OF at the other end.
THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST vALU-
ABLE.
Comparatively few people regard
themselves as inventors, but almost
verybody has been struck, at one time
VI duOthCt3 WiuA iOSbo uDoe cOohAASA N&i "
culated To reduce some of The little fric-
tion 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 passenger backsp'' exclaims the
traveller. III were running the road
would make them in such u way
.What was the man Lha. made this
saucepan thllkihg ut'' grumbles the
cook. s'He never had to work over q
stove, or he would have known how 1T
ought to have been fAed.n
Hang sucn collar bntton!' growls
the man who is late to breakfast. III
were in the business I'd MAKE buttons
that wouldn'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, sauce
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, orthe one who pat
ented the fifteen puzzle.
TEMPTING 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 commercial point of view, the
company will give twenty-five hundre
dollars in cash, in addition to refundlng
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,
he can withdraw without further ex-
pense. Otherwise he will be expected
to complete his application and take
out a patent in the regular way. The
total expense, including Government
and Bureau fees, will be seventy dollars
For this, whether he secures The prize
or not, the inventor will have a patent
that ought 70 be valuable property 10
him. The prize will be awarded by a
jury consisting of three reputable patent
attorneys OF Washington. Intending
competitors should fill out the following
blank, aud forward it with thor apple
cation.
ss---, , 1892.
II submit the within described in
VII on in competition for the tweniy>