Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-07-05
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 NAV
Bring them In still
More.

MORE
Would you like to make twenty-five nun.
dred dollars9 Ifyou would, read careiuliy
what follows and you may see way 10 90 H.
The Press Claims Company dcvotes much
attention to patents. 1t has handled thous-
nnds of applications for Inventions, but II
would like TO handle thousands more. There
il plenty of inventive talent in this country,
needing nothing but n coura c eht
to produce practical results. That encour-
agement the Press Claims Company pro-
poses to give:
NOT SO HARD AS 1T SEEMS,
A patent strikes most people as an appall-
incly formidable thing. The idea is that an
inventor must be a natural genius, like Edi-
son or Bell that he must put years to delVlng
in complicated mechanical problems and
that he must spend fortune on delicate ex'
pcrimcnts before he can get new device TO
q patentable degree of perfection. rms de-
luslon the company desires to dlspc!. 1t de-
sires to get 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-thc
things that seem SO absurdly trivial that inc
citizen would feel somewhat ashamed OF
bringing them to the attention OF the faten'
Office
Edison says that the profits he has received
from the patents on all his marvellous 1hVcn.
tons have not been sufficient to pay the cost
of his experiments. But the man VINO con-
ceiyed the idea of fastening bit OF ruooer
cord to child's ball, so that it would come
back to his hand when thrown maze lor-
tune out of his scheme. The modern sew
ng-machine is a miracle OF ingenuity!
product of the toll of Hundreds OF ousy ula'us
through hundred and fifty years, but INC
whole brilliant result rests upon the simple
device Of putting the eye OF the heeole az 'ne
point instead Of the other end.
THE LITTLE THINGS THE
MOST VALUABLE.
Comparatively few people regard 'nem-
selves as inventors, but almost everybody
has been struck, at one time or ahothef'
with ideas that seemed calculated 10 Tcoucc
some of the little frictions OF lie. CsuailY
such ideas are dismissed WITHOUT l"r'her
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. "lf were
running the road would make them IN such
o way:'
"What was the man that made this sauce
pan thinking ot!' grumbles the cook. "lic
never had to work oyer stoyc, or he would
have known how it ought to have been liked
"Hang such a collar button !! GROWS inc
man who is late for breakfast. "lfl were in
the business I'd make buttons that wouldn't
slip out or break off, or gouge out the pacK
Of my neck"
And then the various sufferers forget about
their grievances and begin to think OF some
thing else. fthey would sit down at the
next convenient opportunity, put their IDEAS
about Car windows, sauccpans, ana coliar
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.
A 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 q prize.
To the person who submits to
ii the simplest and most prOm-
Using invention. from IL CONNER
cial point Of view. the company
will give $4,000 in cash, in AL.
ditiOn to refuntling the fees for
securing the patent.
1t will also advertise the In
yentiOn free Of cllarge.
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 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 by q 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-Five Hundred
Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims
Company