Catoctin clarion., 1894-12-13
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get twenty-five Hun
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The winner has u Clear Gilt Ola
Small Fortune, and the Losers
Have Patents that may
Bring them In still
More.

Smbl1 OTtuhC3 4sNSs UNIV A-OS
Have Patents that may
Bring them in still
More.
Would you like to make twenty-five hun
dred dollars? IfyOu would, read careiully
what follows and you may see way TO do IT,
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. It has handled thous-
ands of applications for inventions, but 1t
would like to handle thousands more. There
is plenty of inventive talent in this country,
needing nothing but n courag eht
to produce practical results Ihat enco"r'
epement the Press Claims Company pro-
poses to give.
NOT 50 HARD As 1T SEEMS',
A patent strikes most people as an appaIl-
inely 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 ana
that he must spend fortune on delicate ex-
periments before he can get new device 10
n patentable degree OF perfection. This de-
lus,on the company desires to dlspel. 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-the
things that seem 80 absurdiy trivial that the
citizen would feel somewhat ashamed OF
bringing them to the attention ol the f"teh'
Office.
Edison says that the profits he has received
from the patents on all his marVelous 'hVeh.
tions have not been sufficient to pay the cost
of his experiments. But the man who con-
ceiyed the idea of fastening bit OF rubber
cord to childs ball, SO that it would come
back to his hand when thrown made tor
tune out of bis scheme. The modern sew
ing.machine is miracle OF ingcnuIty-the
product of the toll of fhundIeds OF busy Drains
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 anothcr,
with ideas that seemed calculated to reduce
some of the little fric'ions OF lte 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 9" exclaims the traveller. "lf l were
running the road would make them IN s1ch
way"
"What was the man that made this sauce
pan thinking ot!'' grumbcs the cook, he
never had to work oyer sloye, or he woulu
have known how it ouehtto have been nXeu'
Hang such COLLAR button !" growls the
man who is late for breakfast. "lfl were IN
the business Id make buttons that wouldn't
slip out or break of, or gougo out the oack
Of my neck
And thea 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, pu, Their lde"s
about Car windows, sauCepans, and 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
1t the simplest and most prom.
Using invention. from II CONNER
cial point of view, the company
will give $2,5OO in cash, in adj
dition to refunding the fees for
securing the patent.
1t will also advertise the in
ventiOn free Ofcllarge.
This offer is subject to the following con-
dtions:
Every competitor must obtain patent tor
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 ex
pense. Otherwise he will be expected to
complete his application and take out a 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 o: not, the inventor will have
patent that ought to be valuablcp.operty
to him. The prize will be awarded by q 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.
Il submit the within described invention
in competition for the twenty-five Hundred
Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims
Company
No Blanks in this Competition.
This is a competition Of rather an unusual
nature 1t IS common to offer prizes for the
best story, or picture, or architectural plan.
all the competitors rsklng the loss of their
labor and the successful one merely selling
his for the amount Of the prize. But the
Press Claims Company's offer is something
entirely different Each person is asked
merely to help himself, and the one who
helps himself to the best advantage is to be
rewarded for doing it, The prize is only a
stimulus to do something that would be well
worth doing It, The architect whose COM
peti,ive plan for club house on certain
corner is not accepted has spent his labor on
something Of very little use to him. But the