Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1895-11-21
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get twenty-five Hun
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The winner has q Clear Gilt Ola
Small Fortune, and the Losers
Nave Patents that NAV
Bring them I'm Still
More.

would like TO handle thousands more There
/. niontv of inventive talent in this country
raeiinG nothing but 0 u 6 m Ell
=. nro,iuce practical results. That enconr
apement the Press Claims Company pro-
poses to give.
NOT SO HARD AS 1T SEEMS,
natent strikes most people as an appall'
,roiv formidable thing. The idea Is that an
;n1entor must be natural genius, like Edi'
aon or Bell that he must put years to delvlng
IN complicated mechanical problems ano
that he must spend q fortune on delicate ex'
nerimeuts before he can get new device 70
a patentable degree OF perfectlon. lh!s Ge'
ius,on the company desires to disPei' ~ ue-
sires to get into the head ofthe puollc cle ca
comprehension of the tact that II ID nov 'ne
great, complex, and expensive inventlon ns
that bring the best returns TO tnelr au'no. o.. y
but the little, simple, and cheap oa ss. .he
things that seem 80 aDsurolY .I'vial .n"s wy W
cit;zen would feel somewhat ashamed OF
MN o;no them to the attention of the Patent
Office. ,o,,od
Ei,son saws that the profits he has received
from the natents on all his marvellous 1nven.
tiona have not been sufficient to pay the cost
NJ his experiments. But the man who con
ceived the idea of fastening bit OF ruoper
cord n a child's ball, so that 1t would come
hack to his hand when thrown made ior'
tune ont of his scheme. The modern sew
ino.machine ia miracle OF ingenu'ty-the
nrodnct of the toll of hundreds 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 AT the
noint instead of the other end.
THE LITTLE THINGS THE
MOST VALUABLE.
Comparatively few people regard them
se,vea a. inventors but almost everybody
rsa heen struck. at one time or another,
With ideas that seemed calculated to reduce
some of the little frictions Of life. usually
snch ideas are dismissed without inrther
"Whv don't the railroad company make
ia car windows 80 that they could be Slid up
and down without breaking the passengers
hacks ?" exclaims the traveller. III were
Tunning the road I would make them IN sacn
. way" .o
pan thinking ot?' grumbles the COOK ne
never had to work oyer stoye' or nc wo9'"
have known how it ought 10 nave oeen nAe w.
Chang such collar button :" growls the
man who ia late for breakfast. "lf1 were In
the bus,ness I'd make buttons that wouldn't
Ain out. or break of, or gouge out the BACK
And tken 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 IDEAS
about car windows, saucepans, ana coliar
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.
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 resolved to
offer a prize.
TO the person who submits to
it the simplest and most prom
Using inv entiOn, from n CONNER.
cial point Of view, the company
will give Sc 500 in cash, In adj
dition to refunding the fees for
securing the patent.
1t will also advertise the In.
yentiOn free Of charge.
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 q preliminary search,
the cost of which will be five dollars. Should
this search show his invention to be unpat-
eatable he can withdraw without further ex'
pense. Otherwise he will be expected to
complete his application and take out a 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 valuable property
TO HIM. The prize will be awarded by ajury
consisting of three reputable patent attorn-
eys of Washington. Intending competitors
should fll out the following blank. and for.
ward it with their application:
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