The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-30
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
HOW TO GET TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED
DOLLARS FOR NOTHING
The Winner has Clear Gift OF Small
Fortune, and the Losers Have Patents
that NAV Brine them In Still More. Z

Would you ike 10 make twenty-five
hundred dollarsp 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
handled thousands of applications for in
vendons, but it would like to handle
thousands more. There is plenty of in
ventive talent at large in this country,
needing nothing but encouragement to
produce practical results. That encOur-
agement the Press Claims Company pro-
poses to give.
NOT so HARD AS IT SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people as an APP
pallingly formidable thing. The idea is
that an inventor must be natural genius
like Edison or Bell; that he must devote
years to delving in complicated mechani-
cal problems, and that he must spend a
fortune ON delicate experiments before
be can get a new device to a pateutable
degree Of perfection. This delusion the
company desires to dispel. 1t desires to
get into the head of the public a clear
comprehension of the fact that it is not
the great complex and expensive inven-
lions that bring the best returns to their
authors, but the little, simple and cheap
ones-the things that seem SO absurdly
trivial that the average citizen would feel
somewhat ashamed of bringing them TO
the attention of the Patent Office. .l-rV
Edison says that the profits he has re-
celved from the patents on all his mar
velous inventions have not been sufii-
cient to pay the cost Of his experiments,
But the man who conceived the idea of
fastening a rubber cord to ball, so that
it would come back to the hand when
a e.. r,f II
scheme. The modern sewing machine is
a miracle of ingenuIty-the product of
the toll of mNny hundreds If busy brains
through a 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 VALUABLE
Comparatively few people regard
themselves as inventors, bat almost
everybody has been struck. at enc time
or another, with ideas that seemed ealcu-
lated to reducc some of the little frictions
of life. Unusually such ideas are dis
missed without further thought
why, don't the railroad company
make its car windows 40 that they can
be slid up aud down without breaking
the passengers backsrhs exclaims the
traveller. If ] were running the road /
would make them in such = way.r{f Pa
F"What was tho man that made this
saucepan thinking OFF" Erumbled the
cook. He never Lad to work over
stove, or he would have known how it
ought to hare beeA fixed"
"Hang such . collier buttoAl' RrSwls
the man who is late for breakfast. III
were in the business I'd mako buttons
that wouldn't slip out, OF break of, or
gouge out the hSck Of my neck" g
And then the various sufferers forget
about their grievances and begin to think
of something else. II they would sit
down at the next convenient opportunity,
put their.id ideas about car windows sauce
pans and collar butto1s Into practical
shape, and then apply for patents, they
might find themselves ~ independently
wealthy as the man who invented the
iron umbrella ring, or the one wkO pal
ented the fifteen puzzle.
.. TEkPTING oFFER.
! To induce people to keep track Of their
bright ideEs and zee what there is in
them, the Press Claims Coapany has re-
solved to offer prize.
To the person rho submits to il the sim
pteSt aud most promiSing inuention, from
CVHlWeTCtut pOIHt W VIeUi He company
mill gire twenty-five hundred dollars in
cast, IN addition to refuudih1 the fees for
Securing the patent.
II uoiH GiSO advertise the patent free Of
charge. El... ,l -e..r..g
This offer is subject to the following
conditions: u E- EfR
Every competitor must obtain q patent
for his invention throHgh the company
He must first apply for \ preliminary
search, the cost OF which will be Ave dol
lars. Should this search snow his inven-
ton to be unpatentable, he can with
draw without further expense. Other
wise he will be expected to complete his
application and take out pateLt III the
regular way. The total expense, includ-
ing Government and Bureau fees, will be
seventy doll1rs For this, whether he
secures the prize or not, the inventor will
have patent that ought to be valuable
property TO him. The prize will be
awarded by a jury consisting of three
reputable patent attorneys of Washing
ton. Intending competitors should fill
out the following blank, and forward it
with their applications: o'- aif.
-, -, 1892.
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