Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-01-06
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get Twenty-Five Hun
dred Dollars for NOTHING.
The Winner Has a Clear Gift of q
Small For tune. and the Losers
Have Patents that May Bring
Them in Still More.

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Would you like to make twenty-five hundred
dollars? II you would, read carefully what
follows and you may see a way to do It,
The Press Claims Company devotes much at
tention to patents. II has handled thousands
of applications for inventions, but it would
like to handle thousands more. There is plen.
ty of inventive talent at large in this country,
needing nothing but encouragement to produce
practical results That encouragement the
Press Claims Company proposes to give.
NOT SO N ARD Az 1T SEEMS.
A patent strikes person as an appsllingly
formidable thing. The idea is that an inventor
must be natural genius. like Edison or Bell;
that he must devote years to delving in compli-
Gated mechanical problems. and that he must
spend fortune on delicate experiments before
he can get new device to q patentsble degree
of perfection. This delusion the company de-
sires to dispel. 1t desires 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 average citizen would feel somewhat
ashamed of bringing them to the attention of
the Patent ONCE.
Edison saws that the profits he has received
from the patents on all his marvellous invent
ions have not been sufficient to pay the cost OF
his experiments. But the man who conceived
the idea of fastening q bit of rubber cord To a
child's ball. so that it would come back to the
hand when thrown, made fortune out of the
scheme The modern sewing machine is q mi
racle of ingenuity-the product of the toll of
hundreds of busy brains through q hundred
and fifty years. but the whole brilliant result
rests upon putting the eye of the needle at the
point instead of at the other end.
THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST
VALUABLE.
Comparatively few people regard themselves
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 dis
missed without further thought.
why don't the railroad companies make its
car windows SO that they can be slid up and
down without breaking the passengers backs?'
exelaims traveller. 'If were running the
road would make them in such way"
what was the man who made this sucepan
thinking Off" grumbles the cook HE never
had to work over the stove. or he would have
known how it ought to have been fixed"
Hang such a collar button!" growls the man
who is late for breakfast. "If were in the
business Id make buttons that wouldn't slip
out or break of. 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. II they would sit down at the next
convenient opportunity. put their ideas about
car windows. ssucepans. and collar buttons in
to practical shape. and then apply for patents,
they might find themselves as independently
wealthy as the man who invented the iron UNI
brella 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 it
the simplest and most promising
invention, from commercial point
of view. the company will give
twenty five hundred dollars, cash,
in addition to retunding the fees
for securing the patent.
It will also advertise the inven-
ton free of charge.
This offer is subject to the following condit
ions;
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 Ave dollars. should this search
show his invention to be unpatentable, he can
withdraw without further expense. Otherwise
he will be expected to complete his apple alton
and take OUT patent in the regular way. The
total expense. including Government and Bu-
reau fees. will be seventy dollars For this
whether he secures the prize or not. the invent
or will have patent that ought to be valua-
BILE property to him. The prize will be award
ed by a jury consisting of three reputable pat
ent attorneys of Washington. Intending COM
petitors should fill out the following blank
and forward it with their applications:
"-,- -, 1898
II submit the above described invention In
competition for the Twenty-fi Hundred Dol
lar Prize offered byt Press Claims Company.
NO BLANKs IN THIS CONTEST.
This is competition of rather an unusual
nature. 1t is common to offer prizes for the
best story. or picture, or architectural plan all
the competitors risking 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 differ