Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-12-06
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get twenty-five Hun
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The winner has Il Clear Gilt Ola
Small Fortune, and the Losers
lGaye Patents that may
Bring them in still
More.

Would you ike to make twenty-five hun
dred dollars? 1fyou would, read carefully
what follows and you may see way to DO IT,
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. 1t has handled thous-
ands of applications for inventions, put IL
woud like to handle thousands more. There
is plenty of inventive talent in this country,
needing nothing but II C OF rae c m eht
to produce practical results. That cnconr'
agcment the Press Claims Company pro-
poses to give.
NOT SO HARD As 1T SEEMS.,
A patent strikes most people as an app"n'
ingly formidable thing. The idea is TINT an
inventor must be natural genius IKE tol-
son or Bell that he must put years 10 ueiVlhS
in complicated mechanical problems ana
that he mus, spend fortune on delicate eX'
ncrimen,s before he can get a new device to
q patentable degree OF perfection This de-
fusion the company desires to dlspe IL de-
sircs to rc, into the head Of the public 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 simple, and cheap ones-the
things that seem so absurdly trivial that the
citizen would feel somewhat ashamed OF
bringing them to the attention OF the fa'ehl
Office.
Edison SAYS that the profits he has received
from the patents on all his marvellous lnVeh-
tions have not been sufficient to pay the cost
of his experiments. But the man VINO Ion.
ccived the idea of fastening u blt OF rubber
cord to n chld's ball, so that it would come
back to his hand when thrown made for
tune out of his scheme The modern sew
ing machine is a miracle OF inecnulty-the
product of the toll ofhundIeds OF busy brains
through a hundred and fifty years, but l',e
whole brilliant result rests upon the simple
device of putting the eye OF the needle at lhe
point instead Of the other end.
THE LITTLE THINGS THE
MOST VALUABLE.
Comparatively few people regard them
selves as inventors, but almost everybody
has been struck, at one time or another,
with ideas that seemed calculated to re"Uce
some ofthe little trlclions OF NE oHhhnV
such ideas are dismissed without further
thought.
"Whv don't the railroad company make
its car windows so tina, they could be slid up
and down without breaking the passengers
backs =" cXclnims the traveller III l were
running the road | would make them IN slch
way"
What was the man that made this sauce
pan thinking or grumhIes the cook. ne
never had to work oyer stoVe, or ne "ouu
have known how il ought TO have been iXcu
Hang such collar button !" growls the
man who is late for breakfast. "li were IN
the business I'd make buttons that wouidn
slip out or break off, or gouge ont the back
of my neck"
And then the various sufferers forget about
Their grievances and begin to think Of some
thing else they would sit down at the
an
about car windows, saucerans, and collar
buttons into practical shape, and then apply
for patents, they might find themselves as
independently wealthy as the man who IN
vented the iron umbrella ring, or the one
who patented the fifteen puzzle.
Ts.ssE'TISH OFFER.
To induce people to keep track of Their
bright ideas and see what there is IN them,
the Press Claims Company has resolved to
offer q prize.
TO the person who submits to
ii the simplest and most prom
Using invention, from Il CONNER
ciaI point Of view, the company
will give $4,000 in cash, in adj
dition to refunding the fees for
securing the patent.
1t will also advertise the in.
yentiOn free Ofcharge.
This offer is subject to the following con-
ditions:
Every competitor must obtain patent for
his invention through the company. he
must first apply for a preliminary search,
the cost of which will be five dollars Should
this search show his invention to be unpat-
entable he can withdraw without further CX.
pense. Otherwise he will be expected to
complete his application and take out 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
a patent that ought to be a valuable property
to HIM. The prize Will be awarded by Il jury
consisting of three reputable patent a,torn-
eys of Washington. Intending competitors
should fill out the following blank, and for
ward it with their application:
- -, 1898.
81 submit the within described invention
in competition for the Twenty-Five Hundred
Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims
Company
No Blanks in this Competition.
This is competition of rather an unusual
nature 1t is common to offer prizes for the
best story, or picture, or architectural plan,
all the competitors risklng the loss OF their
labor and the successful one merely selling
his for the amount of the prize. But the
Press Claims Company's offer is something
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