Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-06-22
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get Twenty i've Hundred
Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner Has q Clear Gift OF q Small
Fortune, and the Losers Have
Patents That May Being
Them SIN Avro.

Would you like to make twenty-five
hun dred dollars? If you would, read
carefully what follows and you may see
way to do it.
The Press Claims Company devotes
much attention to patents. 1t as hand
led thousands Of applications for patents
but it would like to handle thousands
more. There is plenty Of inveo:ive tai
ent at large in this country, needing
nothing but encouragement to produce
practical results. That encouragement
the Press Claims Company proposes to
give.
NOT SO HARD AS 1T SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people as an ap-
pallingly formidable thing. The idea is
that an inventor must be a natural gen.
ius, like Edison or Bell; that he must
devote years to delving in complicated
mechanical problems and that he must
spend fortune on delicate experiments
before he can get new device to a pat
entable degree of perfection. This delu-
sion the company desires to dispel. 1t
desires to get into the head Of the public
a clear comprehension of the fact that it
ia not the greet, complex and expensive
inventions that bring the best returns to
their authors, but the little, simple and
cheap ones-the things that seem SO abb
surdly trivial that the average citizen
| Svnp1II f.ao1 hot oh Of 1,rs,
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 suft
cicnt to pay the cost of his experiments.
hut the man who conceived the idea of
fastening bit of rubber cord to child g
ball, SO that it would return back to the
hand when thrown, made fortune out
of his scheme. The modern sewing ma
chine is Il miracle of ingenuity--the pro-
duct 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 as the
other end.
THE LITTLE THINus THE MOST VALUABLE.
Comparatively few people regard them
selves us inventors, but almost every
body has been struck, at one time OF
another, with ideas that seemed calcu.
lated to reduce some Of the little fric-
tons of life. Usually such ideas are
dismissed without further thought.
"Why don't the railroad company
make it's car windows so that they can
be slid up and down without breaking
the passengers backs 20 cxclaims the
traveller. off were running the road
would make them in such way
''What was the man that made this
saucepan thinking Off" grumbles the
cook. "IIe never had to work over Il
stove, or he would have known how i,
ought to have been fixed"
''Hang such n collar button! growls
the man who is late for breakfast. "Ii
| were in the business I'd make buttons
that wouldn't slip out. or break off, Or
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 81,
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 rs independently
. . wealthy as the man who invented the
: iron umbrella ring, or the one who
patented the fifteen puzzle.
, TEMPTING OFFER.
To induce people to keep track of Their
bright ideas ana see what there is in
them, the Press claims Company has
resolved to offer prize.
TO the person asho submits to I,
} the simplest and most promising iu
!. cention from q commercial point Q,
rie'c, the company aciU giUe tuenty.
fce hundred dollars in cash, in al
I dition to retmnding the fees for secur'
> ing the patent.
e II soiU also advertise the inven
ton free Of charge.
This offer is subject to the following
conditions:
Every competitor must obtain paten
for his invention through the company
tie must first apply for preliminary
search, the cost OF which will be five dol
lars. Should this search show his inven
: ton to be unpatentaale, he can Withdraw
o without further expense. Otherwise hi
will be expected to complete his applica
ton and take out patent In the regular
way. The total expense, including gov
ernment and bureau fees, will he seventy
dollars. For this, whether he secures
the prize or not, the inventor will hav,
patent that ought to be a valuabl,
property to him. The prize will b.
awarded by a jury consisting of three
Reputable patent attorneys of Washing
ton, Intending competitors should fiji
out the following blank and forward i
with their application:
81 submit the within described inven