Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-08-16
PRIZES ON PATENTS

times.
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get twenty-five Hun
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner has Il Clear GIFT Ola
Small Fortune, and the Losers
Haye Patents that may
Bring them I'm still
More.
Would YOU like to make twenty-five nun
dred dollars? Ifyou would, read carefully
what follows and you may see way TO 90 ~.
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. 1t has handled thous.
ands of applications for inventions, 6Mt II
wo,lld like to handle thousands more. There
ia plenty of inventive talent in this country,
needing nothing but o rag m Ell
IT, produce practical results. That enconr'
apement the Press Claims Company pro-
poses to give.
NOT 50 HARD AS 1T SEEMS,,,
A patent strikes most people as an appall'
ingly formidable thing The idea 10 that an
inventor must be natural genius, IKE Eoi-
son or Bell that he must put years to delvlng
in complicated mechanical problems and
that he must spend fortune on delicate ex'
neriments before he can get new device 10
a patentable degree OF perfection, THIS de-
luslon tue company desires to dlspc!. IL &C.
sires to get into the head of the public clear
comprchension 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 inc
citizen would feel somewhat ashamed OF
bringing them to the attention OF the fa'en'
Office.
Edison saws that the profits he has received
from the PATENTS on all his marvellous invcn-
tions have not been sufficient to pay the cost
of his experiments. But the man who CON
ceivcd the idea of fastening bit OF ruoper
cord to child's ball, so that it would come
back to his hand when thrown made 1or-
tune out of his scheme. The modern sew.
ine.machinc is miracle OF ingenulty-thc
product of the toll of hundreds OF busy brains
through hundred and fifty years, but me
whole brilliant result rests upon the simple
device of putting the eye of the needle at 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 0fthe 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 DC slld up
and down without breaking the passengers
backs?" cxclaims the traveller. III l were
running the road would make them IN such
q way"
"What was the man that made this sauce
pan thinking off, grumbles the COOK. ne
never had to work oyer stoye or he wouIa
have known how it ought to have been liked.
"Hanc such collar button ~ growls the
man who is late for breakfast. "lf were in
the business I'd make buttons that wouldn't
slip out or break oil, 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 IDEAS
about Car windows, sauccpans, 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.
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 prize.
To the person who submits to
Ii the simplest and most prom.
ising inv entiOn. from II CONNER
cial point Of Jew. 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.
ventiOn free Ofcharge.
This offer is subject to the following con-
ditiOns:
Every competitor must obtain patent for
his invention through the company. lie
must first apply for preliminary search,
the cost of which will be five dollars. Should
this search show his invention to be unpat-
entablc, he can withdraw without further cX-
pensc. 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 or not, the inventor will have
q patent that ought to be valuable property
to HIM. The prize will be awarded by n 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:
-" -, 1893.
IL submit the within described invention
in competition for the Twenty-Five Hundred
n.,,,, pr;,n oHorod Inv tho Prose Jaime