Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1895-04-04
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get Twenty-Five Hun
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The winner has n Clear Gilt Ola
Small Fortune, and the Losers
Have Patents that NAV
Bring them I'm still
More.

Would you like to make twenty-five nun.
dred dollars! Ifyou would, read carefully
what follows and you may see way 10 90 H.
The Press Claims Company devotcs much
attention to patents. 1t has handled nous :.
auds of applications for Inventions, DM' ~
would like 10 handle thousands more. thele
ia plenty Of inventive talent in this country
needing nothing but n courag m en-
to produce practical results. Ihat ehcou'
agenent the Press Claims Company pro-
poses to give.
NOT so HARD AS 1T SEEMS,
A patent strikes most people as an @ppall.
jnply formidable thing. The idea IS thst an
inventor must be a natural genius, IKE Eul-
son or Bell that he must put years 10 oeiVlng
In complicated mechanical problems aho
that he must spend fortune on delicate e1'
neriments before he can get new device 10
a patentable degree OF perfection. Inns Ge'
lus,on the company desires to dlspel. 1t de-
sires to get into the head of the public clear
comnrehersion of the tact that 1t is not Inc
great. complex, and expensive inventions
that bring the best returns to their authors
hut the little, simple, and cheap ones-the
th;nps that seem 80 absurdlY trivial that the
citizen would feel somewhat ashamed OF
bringing them to the attention OF the fateh'
Office.
Edison saws that the profits he has received
from the patents on all his marvellous 'nVeh.
lions have not been sufficient to pay the cost
of his experiments. But the man VINO con
ceived the idea of fastening Olt OF ruouer
cord to a child's ball, SO that it would come
back to his hand when thrown maze lor'
tune out of his scheme. The modern sew.
ing machine is miracle OF ingenuity
product of the toll of hundreds OF busy brains
,,,,,l.oJ ond Gftv years but the
whole brilliant result rests upon the simple
device of putting the eye Of the needle AZ the
point instead of the other end.
THE LITTLE THINGS THE
MOST VALUABLE.
Comnaratiyely few people regard them
selves as inventors, but almost everybody
mas been struck, at one time or another,
with ideas that seemed calculated to reduce
some of the 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 2" exclaims the traveller. IF were
running the road l would make them IN SIGN
. way"
"What was the man that made this sauce
nan thinking ot?' grumbes the cook. "Hc
never had to work oyer stove, or he wou'd
have known how it ought to have been liked"
"Hang such a collar button !" growls the
man who is late for breakfast. III were IN
the business I'd make buttons that wouidht
slip out or break off, 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. they would sit down al Inc
1~,,>rt,,pit, their ideas
about Car windows, saucepans, and collar
buttons into practical shape, and then apply
Il patents, they might find themselves as
dcpenden!ly wealthy as the man who IN
ventt d 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,
tnc Press Claims Company has resolved 10
offer prize.
TO the person who submits to
IL the simplest and most prom
Using invention, from II CONNER
cial point of view, the company
will give $4,000 in cash, i'm al.
ditiOn to refunding the fees for
securing the patent.
twill also advertise the In.
yentiOn free Ofcharge.
This offer is subject to the following con-
di,ions:
Every competitor must obtain patent tor
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 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
he 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 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.
IL 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.
MI the competitors risking the loss of their