Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-09-13
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get twenty-five Hun
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The winner has q Clear GILT ora
Small Fortune, and the Losers
Have Patents that may
Bring them In still
More.

Would Won like to make twenty-five nun
dred dollars? Ifyou would, read carciuliy
what follows and you may see a way 10 40 II.
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. 1t has handled thoue.
ands of applications for Inventions, 1nt ~
would like to handle thousands more lheIe
is plenty of inventive talent in tins country,
needing nothing but n c "a Gu
to produce practical results lhat ehcouf'
agcment 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 thaI an
inventor must be natural genius, ike Eol-
son or Bell that he must put years to delVing
in complicated mechanical problems ana
that he must spend fortune on delicate ex
periments before he can get new dcvice 10
a patentable degree OF pcrfectlon. ms ue'
luslon the company desires TO dlspei. ~ ue-
cnmnrchension of the tact 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 Patent
Office.
Edison SAYS that the profits he has received
from the patents on all his marvellous 'nVen.
tons have not been sufficient topay the cost
of his experiments. But the man who con-
ceiyed the idea of fastening q bit OF rubpcr
cord to child's ball, SO that it would come
back to his hand when thrown made Tor
tune out of his scheme. The modern sew
iur.machine is miracle OF ingenulty-thc
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 al 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 another,
with ideas that seemed calculated TO reduce
some of the little frictions of life. Usually
such ideas are dismissed without further
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. III were
running the road l would make them III sach
d way
"What was the man that made this sauce
pan thinking ot?'' grumblcs the COOK. lie
never had to work oyer stoyc, or he would
have known how it ought to have been hXcd.
"Hang such collar button !" GROWS the
man who is late for breakfast III were III
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
81 ,,,r,,ll CIT dawn at the
next convenient opportunity, put their IDEAS
about car windows, saucepans, ana coilar
buttons into practical shape, and then apply
for patents, they might find themselves Us
INDEPENDENTLY wealthy as the man who IN
vented the iron umbrella ring, or tho 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
1t the simplest and most prom
Using inventiOn,fr from a CONNER
cial point Of view, the company
will give $4,000 in cash, in adj
dition 10 refunding the fees for
securing the patent.
1t will also advertise the In.
ventiOn free Ofcharge.
This offer is subject to the following con.
ditions:
Every competitor must obtain patent tor
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 ex.
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 OF not, the inventor will have
patent that ought to be valuable property
to HIM. The prize will be awarded bya jury
consisting of three reputable patent attorn-
eys of Washington. Intending competitors
should fill out the following blank, and for.
ward it with their application
II submit the within described invention
in competition for the TWENTY Hundred
Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims
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