Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-09-20
PRIZES ON PATENTS
How to Get twenty-five Hun
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner has Il Clear Gilt ora
Small Fortune, and the Losers
Have Patents that may
Bring tslcm In sill
More.

fARye Patents tnAt IHsaV
Bring t;lcm In sill
More.
Would YOU like to make twenty-five nun
dred dollars? 1fyou would, read carefully
what follows and you may see a way 10 90 IT,
The Press Chains Company dcvotes much
attention to patents. 1t has handled thous-
ands of applications for Inventions, nul IL
would IKE TO handle thousands more. There
is plenty of inventive talent in this country,
needing nothing but n lou sc m ell
tn nroiucc practical results. That enconr'
agement the Press Claims Company pro-
poses to give.
NOT 50 HARD AS 1T SEEMS'''
A patent strikes most people rs an appall'
inply formidable thing. The idea is that an
inventor must be natural genius, like Edi-
son or Bell that he must put years TO delVlhS
in complicated mechanical problems anu
that he must spend fortune OH delicate cx-
periments before he can get new device 10
a patentable degree OF perfection. ms uc-
luslon the company desires to dlspci. IL de-
sires to get into the head OF the pubic clear
comprehension of the fact that IL Is hot lhe
great, complex, and expensive Inventions
fiat bring the best returns to their authors
things that seem so absurdly trivial that the
citizen would feel somewhat ashamed OF
bringing them to the attention OF the fatcht
Office.
Edison says that the profits he has received
from the patents on all his marvellous inven-
lions have not been sufficient topay the cost
of his experiments But the man who con
ceived the idea of fastening a bit OF ruoncr
cord to child's ball, so that it would come
back to his hand when thrown made Tor
time out of his scheme. The modern sew
inp.machine is miracle OF ingcnulty-the
product of the toll of hundreds OF busy brains
through n hundred and fifty years, but the
whole brilliant result rests upon the slinp'e
device of putting the eye of the needle AZ 'he
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 10 reoucc
some ofthe little fric,ions of life. Usually
such ideas are dismissed without iurthcr
thought.
"Whv don't the railroad company make
its car windows so that they could be SID up
and down without breaking the passengers
backs?' cxclaims the traveller. IN were
running the road ! would make them IN snch
s way
"Whnt was the man that made tins sauce
nan thinking Off, grumbles the cook "!ic
never had 20 work oyer stove, or he Won'd
have known how it ouI ht.o haze been iiNcd.
Hang such Il collar button J! gro"'s NE
man who IS late for breakfast. "li were IN
the business I'll make buttons 'lAt wouldn't
slip out or brcNl; off, or go8." out the back
OF my neck"
And then the various sufferers forget about
Their grievances and begin 20 think OF some
thing else. lfthcy would sit down at the
next convenient opportunity, put iheIl IDEAS
about car windows, saucri,ans, ana co'!ai
buttons into practical shape, and then Apply
for patents, they might find ,hcmsc yes rs
independently wealthy as the man who IN
vented the iron umbrella ring, or The one
who patented the fifteen puzzle
A TEN pTENG 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 n prize.
TO the person who submits TO
Ii the simplest and most prom
Using Inventions 'ron II cOntmer-
ciaE point oisieW, the company
will give $s.IoG in cash. in adj
siition 10 reInndiRg ts,e fees fOr
securing the patent.
Ii wiz also advertise she in
venti0n free 0Gcikarge.
This offer is subject to tie following con-
ditions:
Every competitor must obtain patent for
lis invention through the company. He
must first apply for a preliminary search,
the cost of which will bc five dollars. Should
this search show his invention to be unpat-
cntable, he can withdraw without further eX-
pense. Otherwise he will be expected to
complete his application and take ont pat
cnt IN the regular way, The total expense,
including Government and Bureau fees will
he seventy dollars. For this, whether he Sc
cures the prize o. not, the inventor will have
Il patent that ought to be valnabcpsopcrty
to HIM. The prize Will be awarded bya 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.
II submit the within described invention
in competition for the Twenty-Five Hundred
Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims
Company