Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-06-16
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get Twenty Eve Hundred
Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner Has q Clear Gift OF q Small
Fortune, aud the Losers Have
Pattnts That May Bring
THEM Still More.

Would you like to make twenty-five
hut dred dollars? If you would, read
carefully what follows and you may see
a way to do it.
The Press Claims Company devotes
much attention to patents. 1t has hand
led thousands of applications for patents
but it would like to handle thousands
more. There is plenty of inveo.iv tai
ent at large in this country, needing
nothing but encouragement to produce
practical results. That encouragement
the Press Claims Company proposes to
give.
! NOT so HARD AS 1T SEEMS.
| A patent strikes most people as an APP
pallingly formidable thing. The ide; is
that an inventor must be IA natural gen
ius, like Edison or Bell; that he must
devote years to delving in complicated
mechanical problems and that he must
spend a fortune on delicate experiments
before he can get a new device to a pat
entable degree of perfection. This delu-
sion the company desires 10 dispel. 1t
desires to get into the head of the public
Il clear comprehension Of the fact that i,
is not the great, complex ard expensive
inventions that bring the best returns to
their authors, but the little. simple and
cheap 0ncs-the things that seem so alb
lsurdly trivial that the average citizen
! would feel some what ashamed of bring
ing them to the attention Of the Patent
Office
Edison says that the profits he has re-
ceived from the patents on all his mar
velous inventions have not been suifl
cicnt t. pay the cost of his experiments.
hut the man who conceived the idea Of
fastening Il biz Of rubber cord to II child S
ball, so that it would return back TO the
hand when thrown, made Il fortune out
Of his scheme. The modern sewing ma
chine is miracle of ingenuity--the pro-
duct 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
her end.
THE LITTLE THINKS THE MOST VALUABLE
Comparatively few people regard them
selves rs inventors, but almost every
body has been struck, at one time OF
another, with ideas that seemed calcu
lated to reduce some OF the little frc
tons of life. Usually such ideas ar,
dismissed without further thought.
,"Why don't the railroad company
make it's car windows so that they cal
he slid up and down without breakin.
the passengers backs?' c>claims tn
traveller. ''if | were running the road
would make them in such u way"
= 'What was the man that made thi
saucepan thinking OFF," grumbles tn
cook. "He never had to work over
stove, or he would have known how
ought to have been fixed"
"Hang such collar button!" growl
the man who is late for breakfast. 81
| were in The business I'd make button
that wouldn't slip out. or break of, o
gouge out the back of my neck"
Aud then the various sufferers forge
about their grievances and begin to thin
of something else. If they would 81
down ut the next convenient opportunity
put their ideas about car windows. sauce
pans, and collar buttons into practices
shape, and then apply for patents, the
might find themselves as independent
wealthy as the man who invented tn
iron umbrella ring, or the one VIII
patented the fifteen puzzle.
TEMPTING OFFER.
To induce people to keep track of thei
bright IDEAS ana see what there Is /
them. the Press claims Company la
resolved to offer n p.ize.
To the person srho submits to
the simplest and most promising i,
= rentiom. from u commercial point {
ns vie,c, the company aciU gice trenty
y. tee hundred dollars in cash, in "a
its dition to refMnding the fees for secu'
= ing the patent.
Ter 1t aoiW also advertise the inve,
t., to ton free Of charge.
This offer is subject to the followir
conditions:
Every competitor must obtain patel
for his invention through the Compan,
tie must first apply for a prcliminal
search, the cost OF which will be five do
~ lars. Should this search show his invel
~ ton to be unpatentahle, he can withdra
pnt without further expense. Otherwise
ev- will be expected to complete his apple
re- ton and take ont patent in the regul;
-. way. The total expense. including go
90 eminent and bureau fees, will be seven
90 dollars. For this, whether he secur
% the prize or not, the inventor will ha
90 patent that ought to be a valuab
90 property to him. The prize will
o. awarded by a jury consisting of thr
90 reputable patent attorneys of "ashin
co ton. Intending competitors should +
90 out the following blank and forward
90 with their application:
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