Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-09-14
Prizes on Patents-
How to Get twenty-five Hundred
Dollars for Nothing.

The Winner has q Clear Git Of Small
Fortune, and the Losers Have
Patents that may Bring
Them In Still
More.
Would you like to make twenty-five
hundred dollars? II you would read
carefully what follows and you may see
q way to do it..
The Press Claims Company devotes
much attention to patents. Il has ham
died thousands OF applications for In
veDtlons, but it would like to handle
thousands more. There is plenty Of i'm
ventive talent at large III this country,
needing nothing but encouragement to
produce practical results. That en-
couragement the Press Claims Company
proposes to give.
NOT so HARD AS 1T SEEMS.
4 patent strikes most people ~ an
appaIlingly formidable thing. Tho idea
ir that an inventor must be . natural
genius, like Edison or Bell; that he
must devote years IN dSlving IN COM
plicated mechanical problems and that
he must spend . fortune ON delicate
experiment. before he can get new
device to patsn.sble degree OF per-
fection. This delusion the company
desires to dlspel. It desires to get into
the head of the public clear compre-
hensi0n of the fact that It 10 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 that seem 80
absurdly trivial that the average citizen
would feel somewhat ashamed of bring-
ing them 20 the attention of the Patent
Office.
Edison says that the profits he re-
ceived from the patents on all his mar
velous Inventions have not been sufiici-
ent to pay the cost Of his experiments,
Blu; the man who conceived the idea Of
fastening bit of rubber cord 10 .
child's ball 90 that it would come back
to the Land whom thrown, made q for
tune out OF his scheme. The modern
sewing machine Is miracle Of ingenus
ity-the proouct of the toll OF hum
dreds of busy brains through . hum
dred and dfty years, but the whole
brilliant result rests upon The simple
device Of putting the eye Of the needle
6tthe pUinb~instead Of ~ the 0thor end.
THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST vALU-
ABLE.
Comparatively few people regard
themselves rs inventors, but Almcst
everybody has been struck, at one time
or another, with ideas that seemed cal
culated to reduce some of the little fric-
tion Of life. Usually such ideas are
dismissed without furthor thought,
"Why don't the railroad COMPANY
make its car windows 80 that they can
be slid up and down without breaking
the passenger backsp" exclaiuis the
traveller. 'sIf were running the road
l would make them in such way.''
"What was the man thA. made this
saucepan thlnking Of grumbles the
cook. "He never had to work over 4
stove, or he would have known how 1t
ought to have been fixed"
Hang such'a COLLAR button!" growls
the man who is late to breakfast. ssIf /
were in the business I d make buttons
that wouldn't slip ont, or break of, or
gouge out the back OF my neck. y
Aud 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 10 independently
wealthy as the man who invented the
iron umbrella ring. or the ono who pat
enisd the fifteen puzzle.
A TEMPTING OFFER.
To induce peop.e TO keep tract Of
their bright ideas and see what there is
ln them. the Press Claims Company has
resolved to offer . prize.
To the person who submits to il the
simplest and most promising invention, !,
from commercial point 6f view, the
company will give twenty-five hundred
dollars in cash, In addition to refunding
the foes for securing the patent.
1t viii: also advertise the invention
free Of charge.
This offer Is subject to the following
Every competitor must
ob:ain q patent for his invention through
the company. He must first apply Tor
? preliminary search, the cost OF which
will be five dollars. Should thts search
show hts invention to be unpatentable.
he can withdraw without further ex-
pense. Otherwise he will be expected
TO complete his application and take
out 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 I pateut
that ought 20 be valuable property 10
him. The prize Will be awarded 81 :
jury consisting Of three reputable patent
attorneys OF Washington. amending
competitors should fill out tho following
blank. aud forward it with their appli.
cation.
II submit the within described in-
vention In competition for the twenty,
i've hundred Dollar Prize offered by
the Press CLAIMS Company.