Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-08-09
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get twenty-five Hun,
dred Dollars for Nothing.
Tlne Winner has q Clear Gilt Ola
Small Fortune, and the Losers
Have Patents that NAV
Bring them I'm still
More.

Would YOU like to make twenty i've hun
dred dollars2 Ifyou would, read careiuiiy
what follows and you may see way 10 40 H.
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. 1t has handled nous
ands of applications for inventions, out u
would like to handle thousands more. There
is plenty of inventive talent in this country,
needing nothing but n c ourag m Gu
to produce practical results. mat ehcoul'
agement the Press Claims Company pro-
poses to give.
NOT SO HARD AS 1T SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people as an appall'
ingly formidable thing. The idea is that an
inventor must be natural genius, ike Eol-
son or Bell that he must put years TO dciVing
in complicated mechanical problems ano
that he must spend q fortune on delicate ex'
periments before he can get new device to
patentable degree OF perfection. This de-
lus,on the company desires to d,spel. 1t de-
sres to get into the head Of the public clear
comprehension of the fact that 1t 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 Patent
Office.
Edison SAYS that the profits he has received
from the patents on all his marvellous Inven-
tions have not been sufficient to pay the cost
of his experiments. But the man who con
ceived the idea of fastening bit of rubber
cord to a child's ball, SO that it would come
back to his hand when thrown made a lor'
tune out of his scheme. The modern sew
ing machine is miracle 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 AZ the
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 ahotheE'
with ideas that seemed calculated to reduce
some ofthe little frictons OF life Usually
such ideas are dismissed without inrther
thought.
why don't the railroad company make
its car windows so that they could be slid up
and down without breaking the passengers
backs?" eXclaims the traveller. IF l were
running the road l would make them IN sacn
way"
"What was the man that made this sauce
nan thinking OFF, grumbles the cook. HE
never had to work oyer stoye, or he would
have known how it ought to have been liked"
Hang such a collar button !" groWls the
man who is late for breakfast. vi 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 some
thing else If they would sit down at the
next convenient opportunity, put their Feas
about car windows, saucepans, ana 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.
TEMPTING 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 prize.
TO the person who submits to
IL the simplest and most prom
ising inventiOn,fr from u CONNER
ciaI point Of view, the company
will give $4,000 in cash, in nd
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 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 OK
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 lie Sc
cures the prize or not, the inventor will have
patent that ought to be a valuable property
to HIM. The prize will be awarded by q jury
consisting of three reputable patent attorn.
eys of Washington. Intending competitors
should fiji out the following blank, and for.
ward it with their application:
II submit the within described invention
in competition for the Twenty-Five Hundred
Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims
Company