Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-01-04
Prizes On PATENTS.
How to Get Twenty-6veHun.
1red Dollars for Nothing.
The winner has . Clear gift Ofa
small Fortune, and the Losers
aave Patents that nav
Bring them In stin
More.

Would YOU like to make twenty I've hun
dreti dollarsi Ifyou would, read carefully
what follows and you may see way 10 q" IT,
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. 1t has handled thoue.
snds Of applications for inventions, 6Mt II
would like 10 handle Thousands more. Ihere
ia plenty Of inventive talent In this country,
needing nothing but cours m en-
to produce practical results Ihat encoMI
asement the Press Claims Company pro-
poses to give.
NOT SO HARD AZ 1T SEEMS,
A patent strikes most people as an apphlI'
inely formidable thing. The idea 70 thst In nm
inventor must he natural genius. IKE Cu''
son or Bell that he must put years 10 oe'Vns
in complicated mechanical pronlems "n'
that lie mus, spend fortune on deiica!e eA,
ner,mrn,s before he can get new device 10
a patentable degree oi perfection Inns de'
lus,op the company desires to dlspei. de'
aires to get into the head Of the pubic clear
compreher sion Of the tact that 1t ID not Inc
great. complex, and expensive Inventions
that hiring the rst returns 10 their authors
hut the little, simple, and cheap ones-the
things that seem 80 absurdiv trivial that inc
citizen would feel somewhat ashamed Oh
bringing them to the attention Of the Patent
Office. .;.o,
Edison .ays that the profits he has received
from the naients on all his marvellous ,nvrn'
tions have not been sufficient topay the cost
Of his experimen,s But the man who con
ceiyed The idea of fastening hit OF ruooer
cord to a child's ball. 80 that 1t w"uld cone
back to his hand when thr 'wn maze lot
tune out of his scheme. The modern sew
lug machine is = miracle OF ingenuity
product Of the toll Of hundreds OF ousv nT"'"s
through hundred and fifty years, ont inc
whole brilliant result rests upon the simple
device of putting the eye OF the neeoic a. '"e
point instead of the other end.
THE LITTLE CnlNGS THE
MOST VALUABLE.
Comparatively few people regard them
solves IA inventors, but almost every boay
has been struck, at one time or another
with ideas that seemed calculated 10 re"uce
some of the little fric,ons of life. Usually
such ideas arc dismissed without inrlher
thought.
"Why don't ,he.Irailroad company make
its car windows 80 that they could De s''o up
and down without breaking the passengers
backs" exclaims the traveller IN were
running The road l would make them i" SIC"
way"
W nal was tnc EuAn llInS "nAS siA''
pan thinking off, grumbles The COOK i;
never had to work oyer stove or ne wouu u
have known how it ought to have been nNcd.
Hang such collar hutton + grn"M the
man WHO il late for breakfast "lfl were IN
,he business I'd make buttons that wouldn't
slip out or break of, or gOuge out the oack
Of my neck" ,,
And then the various sufferers forget ABOUT
their grievances and begin to think OF some
thing else. Ii they would sit down al 'he
next convenient opportunity, put the'r 'ur"s
about Cur windows, sauce,ans, ana co''at
buttons into practical shape, and then apply
for patents, they might find themselves at
INDEPENDENTLY wealthy as the man VIII" IN
yen,t the iron umbrella ring, or the one
who patented the fifteen puzzle.
ATEMPTVNG OFFER.
To induce people to keep track OF their
briyh, ideas and see what there is in them,
The Press Claims Company has resolved to
offer a prize.
TO The person who submits TO
II the simplest and MOst PRONE
Using invention, FROM N cOmn aer.
cial point Of view, the company
will give 81, $500 In cash, In 40.
ditton to refunding the fees Tor
securing the patent.
! 1t will also advertise the In.
ven ton free Ofcharge.
This offer is subject to the following con-
di,ions:
Every competitor must obtain patent Tor
his invention through the company. tie
must first apply for = preliminary search,
the cost of which will be FIVE dollars. Should
this search show his invention TO be nnpat
entable, be can withdraw without further ex'
pense. Otherwise he will I've expected to
complete his application and take out h pat
ent IN the regular way. The total expense,
including Government and Bureau fees, will
be seventy dollars For this, whether he Sc
cures the prize o. not, the inventor will have
| pstent that oug ht to be valuable properly
to HIM. The prize will he swarde, BY n jury
consisting vt three reputable patent a'torh'
eys of Washington. Intending competitors
should dill out the following blank. and for
ward it with their application
49," --, 1870
II submit the within described invention
in comne,i,ion for the Twenty-Five Hundred
Dollar Prize offered by the Press claims
Company. ,
No Blanks in this Competition.
This is a competition Of rather an unusual
nature. 1t 10 common to offer prizes Tor the
best story, or picture, or architectural plan.
all the competitors rsk,ng the loss OF their
labor and the successful one merely selling
his for the amour, of the prize. But the
Press Claims Company's offer is something
entirely different. Each person is asked
merely to help himself and the one who
helps himself to the best advantage is to te
rewarded for doing IT, The prize is only a