Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-05-31
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get Twenty five Hundred
Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner Has q Clear Gift or q Small
Fortune, and the Losers Have
PateRis That Hay Briag
Them Still More.

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Would You like to make twenty five
hundred dollars? If you would, read
carefully what follows and you may see
a way to do it.
The Press Claims Company devote
much attention to patents. 1t has han
died thousands of applications for inven-
tions, but it would like to handle thou
sards more. There is plenty of inven-
tive talent at large In this country, need.
ing nothing but encouragement to pro-
duce practical results. That encourage
ment the Press Claims Company pro-
poses to give. a7et
| NOT SO HARD AZ 1T SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people as an
appallingly formidable thing. The idea
is that an inventor must be natural ge-
MUS, 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 new device to pat
entable degree of perfection. This delu-
sion the company desires to dispel. It
desires to get into the head of the public
n clear comprehension Of the fact that it
is not the great, complex, and expensive
inventions that bring the best returns to
their authors, but the little, eimple and
cheap Ones-the things that seem so ab
surdly trivial that the average citizen
would feel somewhat 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 suffi.
cicnt to pay the cost of his experiments.
But the man who conceived the idea of
fastening bit of rubber cord to child's
ball, SO that it would return back to the
hand when thrown, made a 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 a hundred and fifty years :;
but the whole brilliant result rests upon
the simple device of putting the eye of
the needle ut the point instead OF at the
other end.
THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST VALUABLE.
, Comparatively few people regard them
selves as inventors, but almost every
body has been struck, at one time or
another, with ideas that seemed calcu.
lated to reduce some OF the little fric-
tiOns of life. Usually such ideas are
dismissed without further thought.
"Why don't the railroad company
make its car windows SO that they can
be slid up and down without breaking
the passengers backs?' cxclaims the
traveller. 'If were running the road
would make them in such u way
. "What was the man that made this
saucepan thinking Off" grumbles the
cook. she never had to work over u
, stove, or he would have known how i,
ought to have been fixed."
''Hang such collar button!' growls
the man who is late for breakfast. "li
l were in the business I'd make buttons
that wouldn't slip out, or break off, OF
{ gOuge out the back of my neck"
And then the various sufferers forget
about their grievances and begin to think
of something else. If they would sill
= down at the next convenient opportunity
put their ideas about car windows, sauce.
q 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
Q iron umbrella ring, or the one who
. patented the fifteen puzzle.
To induce people to keep track of theil
bright ideas ana see what there ia in
e them, the Press claims Company has
= resolved to offer prize.
}. TO the person achO submits to !,
D the simplest and most promising IN
centiom. from a commercial point Q,
9 cie'c, the company aciV give tacenty'
: tee hundred dollars IN cash, an al.
Q dition to ret"nding tile fees for secur.
T.. ing tie patent.
1t aciW also advertise the inren.
ton free Of charge.
This offer is subject to the following
conditions:
" Every competitor must obtain patent
9 for his invention through the company
:. Tie must first apply for IA preliminary
search, the cost of which will be five dol.
lars. Should this search chow his inven.
ton to be unpatentable, he can withdraw
Z without further expense. Otherwise he
j., will be expected 10 complete, his applica-
ton and take out II patent in the regular
i way. The total expensey'including gov
eminent and bureau fees, will be seventh
dollars. For this, whether he secures
T 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 fiji
out the following blank, and forward 1t
with their application:
----, 1923,
81 submit the within described inven-
! ton in competition for the Twenty five