Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1895-08-15
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get twenty-five Hun
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The winner has Il Clear Gilt OF"
small Fortune, and the Losers
fave Patents that NAV
Bring them In SILL
More.

MOfcs
Would YOU like to make twenty-five nun.
dred dollarsP Ifyou would, read careiniiy
, what follows and you may see a way 10 90 H.
The Press Claims Company devotes much
.,t.nt;on to patents. 1t has handled thous'
ands of applications for inventions, but IL
wonld ike to handle thousands more. Ihere
ia nlen,y of inventive talent in this country,
needing nothing but en- urag en-
to produce practical results. That ehcour
apement the Press Claims Company pro-
poses to give. ~
NOT so HARD As 1T SEEMS.
A nntent strikes most people rs an app"ll
;nciv formidable thing. The idea is that an
inventor must be a natural genius, IKE Eul
son or Bell that he must put years 10 oeiV'hs
In complicated mechanical proo'enls ailo
that he must spend fortune Oh dci,ca.e e.
pcriments before he can get ne" 4eVice "
a patentable degree OF perfection. ms de'
lus,on the company desires to dispei. ~ nc.
sires to get into the head OF the pupl'c clG"l
comprehension Of the fact that II IS no. ane
1hat hiring the best returns to their authors
Int the little, simple, and cheap ones-the
thinps that seem so absurdly trivial that the
cit;zen would feel somewhat ashamed OF
bringing them to the attention Of the fateht
Office. o;vod
Edison says that the profits he has received
from the naten,s on all his marvellous 1nVeh-
tions have not been sufficient tOpay the cost
of lila exneriments. But the man VINO CON
ce;ved the idea of fastening bit OF ruoper
cord to n child's ball, SO that it would come
hack to his hand when thrown made 1or-
tune out Of his scheme. The modern sew
;no.machine ia miracle OF ingenuIty-thc
nroduct of the toll of hundreds OF busy hrnins
through a hundred and fifty years, but tnc
whole brilliant result rests upon the Simple
device of putting the eye OF the neeoie al 'he
point instead of the other end
THE LITTLE THINGS THE
MOST VALUABLE.
Comparatvely few people regard tnem-
selves as inventors but almost everybody
mas been struck, at one time or announcer,
with ideas that seemed calculatcd 10 re"uce
some of the little fric,ions of life. Usually
such ideas are dismissed without iurthcr
thought
"Why don't the railroad company make
it's car windows so that they coulo ne siia "l
and down without breaking the passengers
backs?' exclaims the traveller! III l were
running the road l would MAKE IKE. them IN s'ch
way .,.. ,,,,
nan thinking off, grumbcs the cook 'llc
never had to work over a stoye, or he would
have known how it ought to have been hXcd
"Hang such a collar button + grow's the
man who * late for breakfast. "lt were IN
the business Id make buttons that wouldn't
slip OUT or break oti, or gonge 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 ioe's
about car windows, saucepans, 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
ATTEMPTING OFFER.
To induce people to keep track OF their
bright ideas and see what there is in them,
the Press Claims Company has resolved 10
offer a prize
TO .lle person who submits 10
II the simplest and most prom
Using invention, from IL CONNER.
cial point Of lew. the company
will give 81 500 in cash, In adj
ditiOn to refunding the fees for
securing the patent.
1t will also advertise the In.
yentiOn free Ofcharge.
This offer is subject to the following con-
ditions:
Every competitor must obtain patent for
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-
pepse. 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
a patent that ought to he autobiography
to HIM. The prize will he awarded bya jury
consisting of three reputable patent attorn
evs 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 Competition.
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 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 n
Stimulus to do something that would be well
worth doing 1t. The architect whose com.
petitive plan for club house on a certain
corner is not accepted has spent his labor on