Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1895-05-23
PRIZES ON PATENTS,
How to Get twenty-five Hun
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The winner has a Clear Gilt ON
Small Fortune, and the Losers
Have Patents that NAV
Bring them I'm still
More.

wou,d YOU like to make twenty-five nun
ared dollars? IfyOu would read careiuliy
What follows and you may zee way 10 90 ~
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. 1t has handled thous.
ands of applications for inventions, nut II
would like to handle thousands more. mere
IA plenty of inventive talent in this country,
needing nothing but n coura IN en
t. nro,iuce practical results. Ihat encour-
arement 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 ioea IL thaI al
inventor must be natural genius, IKE Eui-
son or Bell that he must put years 10 oe'vins
in complicated mechanical prooiehs ano
that he must spend fortune on oei,ca!e * ~
periments before he can get ne" u E';c w
! patentable degree OF perfection. lh1s ue'
i,e,on the company desires to dlspel. 1t de-
sires to get into the head of the public clear
comnrehension of the fact that it is not the
great. complex, and expensive Inventions
ihot bring the best returns to their authors
Int the little, simple, and cheap. ones-the
things that seem so absurdly trivial that the
citizen would feel somewhat ashamed OF
bringing them to the attention OF the f"'eh'
Office. .o;,od
from the natents on all his marvellous inven-
t;ons have not been sufficient to pay the cost
If his experiments. But the man who con
ceived The idea of fastening bit OF rubber
cord to a child's ball, SO that it would come
hack to his hand when thrown made a Ior-
time out of his scheme. The modern sew
iug.machine is a miracle OF ingenu'ty-:n
product of the toll of hundreds OF ousy Drains
through hundred and fifty years. but the
whole brilliant result rests upon the simple
device of putting the eye OF the neeole az 'le
point instead of the other end
THE LITTLE THINGS THE
MOST VALUABLE,
Comparatively few people regard tnen-
selves as inventors but almost everybody
has been struck, at one time or announcer
with ideas that seemed calculateo " Teouce
some of the little frictions OF ne Csuany
such ideas are dismissed wi'hou' '"r'hef
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" exclaims the traveller III l were
running the road would MAKE 'ne'n III '''D
Q way"
"What was the man that made this sauce
nan thinking off, grumbles the cook. "He
never had to work oyer a stoye, or ne wou'u u
have known how it ought to have been liked
"Hang such collar button !" growls the
man who is late for breakfast. "lfl were IN
the business I'd make buttons that wouldn't
Slip out or break of, or gouge out the oack
Of my neck" ,,.
And then the various sufferers forget about
their grievances and begin to think OF some
thing else. Ifthey would sit down at the
next convenient opportunity, put the'r lae" "
about car windows, saucepans, anu co''at
buttons into practical shape, and then apply
for patents they might lind themselves rs
independently wealthy as the man who IN
vented the iron umbrella 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 reso.Ve TO
offer prize.
TO the person who submits to
1t the simplest and most prom
Using inventiOn,f from u CONNER
cial point Of view, the company
will give 1880 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
a.. 4, ,tD hic invention tn ho nat.
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
a patent that ought to be a valuable property
to him. The prize will be awarded by a jury
consisting of three reputable patent attorn-
evs of Washington. Intending competitors
should fiji 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 10 common to offer prizes for the
best story, or picture, or architectural plan,
all the competitors rsklng 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 a
stimulus to do something that would be well
worth doing 1t. The architect whose COM
petitive plan for club house on certain
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