Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1895-01-31
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get twenty-five Hun
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The winner has q Clear Gilt ora
Small Fortune, and the Losers
Have Patents that may
Bring them In Sill
Moro.

Would you like to make twenty nve nun.
bred dollarsP Ifyou would, read carefully
what follows and YOU may gee way to d." 1t.
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. 1t has handled thous'
nnls of applications for Inventions, but II
wouId like to handle thousands more. There
ia plenty of inventive talent in this country,
needing nothing but e n 0 u rag 10 eht
70 produce practical results. That encour'
srement tie Press Claims Company pro-
poses to give.
NOT SO HARD Az 1T SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people rs an arpall-
inply formidable thing. The idea is that an
inventor must be a natural genius, like Edl-
son or Bell that he must put years TO delVlng
In complicated mechanical problems ano
that he must spend fortune on oelica!e eA'
perimcnts before he can get nc" aevicc 70
a patentable degree OF perfection ms ae-
luslon the company desires to dispei' IL oe-
sircs TO get into the head OF the pnohc c''ar
comprehension of the tact that II IS no. 'he
great. complex, and expensive inventions
that bring the best returns to their authors
but the little, simple, aud cheap onee-the
things that seem 80 absurdlv trivial that the
citizen would feel 1eome"hat ashamed OF
bringing them to the attention 81 'he F"'eG'
Office.
Edison save tina, the profits he has received
from the patents on all his marvellous lnVcn'
tions have not been sufficient to pay the cost
of bis experiments, But the man who con
ceived the idea of fastening q bit OF rubper
cord to a child's ball, 80 that It would come
back to his hand when thrown made LOT
tune out of his scheme. The modern sew
Ing machine is a miracle OF ingcnuuy-the
product of the toll of hundreds OF busy brains
through hundred and fifty years, hut the
whole brilliant result rests upon the slmnle
device Of putting the eye OF the neeule al INC
pont instead of the other end.
THE LITTLE THINGS KisE
MOST VAiUaELE.,
COMPARATIVELY few people regard them
selves us inventors, but almost everybody
has been struck, at one time or another
with ideas that seemed calculated to REFUGE
some Of the little trclions Of life Usually
snch ideas are dismissed without further
thought
"Why don't the railroad company make
i,s car Windows so that they could be slid up
and down wthou, breaking the passengers
backs?" eSclains the traveller. III l were
running the 1oad I would make them III s'ich
a wav:"
What was the man that made tins sauce
pan thinking Or prUmblcs the cook, ne
never had to work oyer stove, or he would
have known how it ought TO have been hXea.'
"Hang such collar button !! gro"ls the
man who is late for breakfast. "lt were IN
the business I'll make buttons that wouldn't
slip out or break of, or goug" out the back
0fmy 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 idrns
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 VINO IN
veDttd the iron umbrella ring, or the one
who patented the fifteen puzzle.
ATEMPTlNG OFFER.
To induce people to keep track of their
bright ideas and see what there is III them,
the Press Claims Company has resolved to
offer q prize.
TO the person who submits to
II the simplest and most prom
Using invention, from a. CONNER
ciml paint Of view, the company
will give S2.5O0 in cash. in ad-
slitiors TO rafu1ssin. the fees s"r
securing the patent.
Ii will also advertise the i'll
ycDiiom free of.slarse.
This offer is subject to the following con
di,ons:
Every competitor must obtain patent for
his invention through the company. He
must first apply for preliminary sear'h
the cost Of which will he five dollars. Should
this search show his invention to be uIpat,
II ;,I, f,,
pensc. Otherwise he will be expected to
complete bis application and take out pat
cnt III the regular way The total expense,
including Government and Bureau fees, will
be seventy dollars For this, whether he St.
cures the prize o: not, the inventor will have
a patent that ought to he a valuable property
to MN. The prize Will be awarded bya jury
consisting ni three reputable patent attorn- +
eys of Washington Intending competitors
sllould ill out the following blank, and for.
ward ii with their application
- -------, -----, 1898. /
II submit the within described invention |
in competition for the Twcntvliye Hundred |
Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims
Comp4HY
No sssa.skR In ts.ia Competition.
This is competition cl rather an unusual
nature II IS common 10 offer prizes for the
best story, or picture, or Architectural plan,
ali the competitors tiskng the loss Of their
labor and the successful one merely selling
mis- for the amount Of the prize. But the
Press Claims CompNuy's offer is something
entirely different Each person is asked
merely 10 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.
po,ilive plan for a club house on a certain