Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-12-20

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PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get twenty-five Hun
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner has II Clear GIFT ola
Small Fortune, and the Losers
ffaye Patents that may
Bring them in still
More.
Would you like to make twenty-five nun.
,7red dollars? IfyOu would. read carefully
what follows and you may see a way to DO 1t.
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. 1t has handled thous.
ands of applications for Inventions, but IT
would like to handle thousands more. There
is plenty of inventive talent in this country,
needing nothing but n GU rae e IN eht
to produce practical results That enconr'
arcment 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 that an
inventor must be natural genius, like Edi-
son or Bell that he must put years TO delV'hg
in complicated mechanical prohlcms aho
that he must spend fortune on delicate ex-
perimcns before he can get new device 10
a patentable degree OF perfection Inns de'
lus,on the company desires to d,spel 1t de-
sires to get into the head Of the public clear
comprehension 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 81 absurdiy 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-
tions have not been sufficient topay the cost
Of his experiments. But the man VINO con-
ceived the idea of fastening hlt OF ruoper
cord to childs ball, so that it would come
back to his hand when thrown made Tor
tune out of his scheme. The modern sew
ing.machnc is miracle OF ingenuIty-the
product of the toll ofhundIeds 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 erybody
has been struck, at ore time or another,
with ideas that seemed calculated to REFUGE
some of the little friclions of life Usually
such ideas are dismissed without further
thought.
why don't the railroad company make
its Car windows so that they could ne SLID up
and down without breaking the passengers
backs?' eXclams the traveller. III l were
running the road I would make them IN snch
o way
What was the man that made this sauce
pan thinking off, grumbles the cook. ale
never had to work oyer stoyc, or he would
have known how it ought to have been fixed
"Hang such collar button !" growls the
man who is late for breakfast "lf were In
the busress I'd make buttons that wouldn't
slip out or break Oft, 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, sanccrans, ana collar
buttons into practical shape, and then apply
for patents, they might find themselves rs
vented the iron umbrella ring, or the one
who patented the fifteen puzzle.
TFMPTlNG 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
il the simplest and most PRONE
Using from a. com Iner.
cial point Of lew. the company
will give $4,000 in cash, i'm adj
dition to refunding the fees for
securing the patent.
Ii will also advertise the in
yentiOn free Ofcllarge.
This offer is subject to the following con-
ditions
Every competitor must obtain a 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 he uGpat-
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 o: not, the inventor will have
patent that ought to be a valuablcpsopcrty
to HIM. The prize will be awarded by u 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
- 1898.
II submit the within described invention
in competition for the Twenty-Five Hundred
Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims
Company
No Blanks in this Competitions.
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 risklng 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
stimulus to do something that would be well
worth doing 1t. The architect whose COM
petitive plan for a club house on a certain
corner is not accepted has spent his labor on
something of very little use to him. But the
pprson who patentS n simple and uSeful de. |