The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-05-25
PRIZES ON PATENTS
THE WINNER HAS A CLEAR
GIFT OF $500, AND THE
LOSERS HAVE PATENTS
THAT MAY BRING THEM IN
STILL MORE.

Still. MORE
Would YOU like to make twenty-five hum
dred dollarsf II YOU would. read carefully
what follows and YOU NAV see way 10
do it.
The Press Claims Company devotes
much attention to patents 1t has handled
thousands of applications for inventions,
but it would like to handle thousands more.
There is plenty of inventive talent at
large in this country. needing nothing
but encouragement to produce practical
results. That announcement the Press
Claims Company proposes to give.
Nor 60 u.nn Az Tn evvvs
notsnt 81 r;i,as ,,,ost ,,aorla 90 ~
nali;nglv forn,i ; I tbin pp The ;deo Is
that an I inventor must NO ! natural Genius
lilo Edison or Rail. that ba ms, davote
VOC 20 ~ del;ner II, con,,1i,atod ~,
problems and that he must spend for
get new device to patentable degree OF
perfection. This delusion the company
desires to dispel. 1t desires to get into
the public clear comprehension OF the
fact that ii is not the great, complex, and
expensive inventions that bring the best
returns to their authors, but the little, sim
Pile and cheap ones-the things that seem
80 absurdly 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 sufficient
to pay the cost of his experiments. But
the man who conceived the idea of fasten-
ing bit of rubber cord to childs ball,
so that 1t would come back to the hand
when thrown, made fortune out of his
scheme. The modern sewing-machine is
miracal OF ingenuity--the product 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 other
end.
THE LITTLE THrNes THr Mosr VAN.
ABLE.
Comparativelv few people regard them.
selves a. inventors. Int almost everybody
has been struck. at one time or another
with ideas that seemed calculated 10 re-.
duce some of the little frictions Of life.
Usually such ideas are dismissed without
further thought.
Why don't the railroad company make
its car windows 30 that they can be slid
up and down without breaking the pas
sengers' backs?" exclaims the traveller.
III were running che road would make
them N such way"
: What was the man that made this
saucepan thinking Off" g-umbles the
cook. HE never had to work over a
stove, or he would have known how it
ought to have been fixed"
Hang such collar buttonp' growls
the man who is late for breakfast III
were in the business I'd make buttons
that wouldn't slip out, 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 sit
down at the next convenient opportunity,
put their ideas about the car windows,
saucepans, and collar bnttons into practi-
cal shape, and then apply for patents,
they might find themselves as independ-
emily wealthy as the man who invented
the Iron umbrella ring, or the one who
patented the fifteen puzzle.
A TEMprINe OFFEp.
To induce neonle In keen track ~ the;,
bright ideas and see what thora 10 in then,
the Press Claims Company has resolveq
10 offer n nrize