Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1895-04-25
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
IHow to Get twenty-five Hun
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner has Il Clear Gift OF u
Small Fortune, and the Losers
Have Patents that may
Bring them i'm still
More.

Would you like to make twenty-five nun
dred dollarsS 1fyou would, read careiully
what follows and you may see way 10 90 !!
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. 1t has handed nous J.
ands of applications for Inventions, but II
would like to handle thousands more. There
{. nlentv of inventive talent in this country,
needing nothing but n oura m ell
t. nroiuce practical results. That encour-
soement 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 idea ls that an
inventor must be natural genius, like Edi-
son or Bell that he must put years to delVing
In complicated mechanical problems and
that he must spend fortune on delicate e4'
perimen,s before he can get new device 10
a patentable degree OF perfection. This de-
lus,on the company desires to dlspel. 1t de-
aires to yet into the head of the public a clear
comprehension Of the tact that II IS not 'ne
great, complex, and expensive Inventions
that bring the best returns to their authors
but the little, simple, and cheap ones-the
things that seem so aosurdy trlvlal .na. 'n 10
citizen would feel somewhat ashamed OF
bringing them to the attention OF the Patent
Office.
Edison says that the profits he has received
from the patents on all his marvellous InVen.
tions have not been sufficient to pay the cost
of his experiments. But the man who con-
ceiyed the idea of fastening bit OF ruober
cord to a child's ball, so that it Woulo come
back to his hand when thrown made Tor
tune out of his scheme. The modern sew
ing.machine is a miracle OF ingenu'ty-the
nroduct of the toll of hundreds OF busy brains
through hundred and fifty years, out inc
whole brilliant result rests upon the simple
device of putting the eye OF the heeoie az 'ne
point instead Of the other end
THE LITTLE THINGS THE
MOST VALUABLE,
Comparatively few people regard them
selyes as inventors, but almost everybody
mas been struck, at one time or announcer
with ideas that seemed calculateo 10 Teouce
.some of the little frctions Of life. Usually
snch 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?" exclaims the traveller. III were
running the road would make them IN sach
q way
"What was the man that made this sauce
pan thinking ot?.' grumbles the cook ne
never had to work oyer stoye, or ne wou'u
have known how it ought to have been hxed'
Hang such a collar button y growls the
man who is late for breakfast. ~ 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. If they would sit down at me
next convenient opportunity, put their IDEAS
olo ind SanppnQnS.
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.
ATEMPTlNG 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 q prize.
TO the person who submits to
IL the simplest and most prom
Using inyentiOn, from II CONNER
eial point Of Jew, the company
will give $4,000 in cash, In adj
dition to refuniing the fees for
securing the patent.
twill also advertise the In
yention free Ofcharge.
This offer is subject to the following con-
ditions:
Every competitor must obtain patent tor
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 rnpat-
entable, he can withdraw without further ex.
pense. Otherwise he will be expected to
complete his application and take oat pat
ent In the regular way. The total expense,
excluding 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
10 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:
49, 1898.
"I submit the within described invention
in competition for the Twenty-Five Hundred
boilar Prize offered by the ffc tai1ns
Company
No Blanks in this Conn ton.
Thls is q competition of rather h Anus'lal
nature 1t Is common to offer prizes for the
saest story or picture, or architectural plan,
all tase competitors risklng the Joss OF their
labor and the successful one merely selling
mis- for the amount of the prize But the
Esress Claims Company's offer is something
entt.sly different Each person is asked
.sneraly to help himself, and the one who
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