The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-07-06
Prizes on Patents.
How to Get Twenty Five Hundred
Dollars for Nothing.
Tie Winner has a Clear Gift OF n
Smal! Fortune, and the Losers
Have Patents that NAY
Bring theln in SUI
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would you Ike to make twenty. fivc
hundred dollar? If you would, read
carefully what follows and you may see
II way to DO it.
The Press Claims Company deyotes
much attention to patents. II has han
died thousands OF applications tor il
vcnliuns. bit it would like to handle
thousands more. TtiGro-is plenty OF
inventive talent ut large in this country,
needing nothing but cncuurasclutut TO
proHue" practical results. That Gu
c%ouraaclno i the Pres Claims Company
proposes to giVe,'
NOT so HARD As IF SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people as au APP
palilugiy formidable tlllng. The idea Is
that The Inventor must he Il natural
genius, like Edison or Bell; th4t be
must deyute years to delving in coiIpll-
Gated mechanical problems and that lie
must spend a fortune On delicate expert
menls before he can get II new device TO
u pa,entable degree Vi perfection. This
delu,iOm the company desires to dispel.
II desires 10 get tito the head vi the
"'''''" II clear comprehension ot The fact
That II is not the great, complex, and
expensive inventions thar bring The best
returns to their authors, but the little,
simple and cheap onrs--the things
thar seem 20 aUsurlly trivial that
the average citizen would feel somewhat
ashamed Of bringing them to the atten-
tion OF the Patent Oillce.
EdlsO says that the profits he has ,e-
ceived from the patents on all his mar
Vicious inventions have moi been sutii-
clent 10 pay the cost of experiments.
Inf tltA l.n .ashn .,n.Af,L-l -. ~ a
fastening a bit of rubber curd 10 Il ciild's
ball, So that il would come back to the
hand whtn thrown, made d fortune
out of his scheme. The modern sewing
machine Is a miracle Of ingeuuity--l hG
product of tie toll Of hundreds OF BUSY
brains through Il hundred aud iitty
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 Kings THE MOST yALU-
ABLE.
Comparatively few people regard
themselves as inventors, but almost
everybody has beed strnck, at one time
OF another, with ideas that seemed cal
culated to reduce some of the little fric-
tlons NJ lilo. Usually such ideas are
dismissed without further thought,
"Why don't HE railroad company make its
car Windows 80 that they eau be slid up and
down without breaking the passenge4. AacksY
cNclaims the traveller. "a 1 we're running
the road | would make them such II way"
~ hat was the man that made this saucepan
thinking OF grumbles the cook "Iie never
had 70 work over a stove, or he would have
known how II ought 70 nave been liked"
lang such u collar button,' growls the
man who 10 late Tor breakfast. ''Ii | were IN
tlle business | would make buttons that would
not SIP out, or break Oh, or gouge out ihe back
OF M neck.'
Aud uien the various snnerers forget about
Their grievances and tegiu TO think about
something else, II they woeid at lowli authe
neat convenient Opportunity, pat their IDEAS
apout CAT wlnuows bauGepans, and collar but-
TONS lnto Practical shape, and then apply for
patents, they niYnt nnd themselves as inus,
pehdently aeaithy us the man who invented
lle ron umbrella ring, or the one VINO patented
the fifteen puzGIe.
TEMPTING OFFER
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