Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-05-31
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get twenty-five Hun
dred Dollars for Nothing.

How to Get twenty-five Hun
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner has n Clear GIFT Ola
Small Fortune, and the Losers
Have Patents that NAV
Bring them In still
More.
Would you like to make twenty-five hun
dred dollars' 1fyou would, read carefully
what follows and you may see way TO 90 H.
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. 1t has handled thous.
ands of applications for Inventions, but 1t
wonId ike to haudle thousands more. There
ia plenty of inventive talent in this country,
needing nothing but c ourage m ent
TO produce practical results. That encour'
agcment the Press Claims Company pro-
poses to give:
NOT so HARD As IT SEEMS
A patent strikes most people as an appall'
ingly formidable thing. The idea is that an
inventor must be natural genius, like Edl-
son or Bell that he must put years TO deiVlng
in complicated mechanical problems and
that he must spend fortune on delicate ex'
perimen,s before he can get new device 10
= patentable degree of perfection. rms &C.
luslon the company desires to dlspcl. 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-.he
things that seem so absurdly trivial thai inc
citizen would feel somewhat ashamed OF
off
Office.
Edison says that the profits he has received
from the patents on all his marvellous inven.
tons have not been sufficient to pay the cost
of his experiments. But the man who con
ceived the idea of fastening bit OF ruoper
cord to child's ball, so that 1T would come
back to his hand when thrown made tor
tune out of his scheme. The modern sew"
ipg.machine is miracle OF ingenulty-the
product ofthe toll ofhundreC,s 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 'he
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 announcer,
with ideas that seemed calculated to reduce
some ofthe 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 be slid up
and down without breaking the passengers
backs?" excams the traveller. III l were
running the road would make them IN such
way"
"What was the man that made this sauce
nan thinking oi?'' grumbles the cook. he
never had to work oyer stoye, or lie would
have known how it ought to have been hXea.'
"Uang such collar button !" growls the
man who is late for breakfast III 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. If they would sit down at the
next convenient opportunity, put their l'leas
shout ear windows, saucepans, ana coi'ar
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.
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 a CONNER.
cinI point of view, the company
will give $4,000 in cash, In adj
ditiOn to refuntling the fees for
securing the patent.
1t will also advertise the In
ventiOn free of cIharge.
This offer is subject to the following con-
ditions:
Every competitor must obtain patent tor
his invention through the company. He
must first apply for q 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 o. not, the inventor will have
patent that ought to be q valuable property
to HIM. The prize will be awarded by a 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.
"I submit the within described invention
In competition for the Twenty-Five Hundred
Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims
Company