Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1895-12-12
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get twenty-five Hun
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The winner has Il Clear GILT OF"
Small Fortune, and the Losers
Have Patents that NAV
Bring them In still
More.

Would you like to make twenty nve nun.
dred dollarsS Ifyou would, read carefully
what follows and you may see way TO 90 ~
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. 1t has handled thous,
ands of applications for Inventions, but II
would like TO handle thousands more There
10 nlentv of inventive talent in this country
needing nothing but n OF g e m ell
TO produce practical results. That encour-
apement the Press Claims Company pro-
poses to give.
ya,T so HARD AS 1T SEEMS.
natent strikes most people as an appall'
;nelv formidable thing. The idea is that an
inventor must be natural genius, like Edl-
son or Bell that he must put years to delVlng
In complicated mechanical problems AND
that he must spend fortune on delicate ex'
periments before he can get new deVice 70
a patentable degree OF perfection. ms ae-
luslop the company desires to dispe! IL oe'
sires to get into the head OF the PUBIC a clear
comprehension Of the fact that II Is nov lne
great, complex, and expensive Inventions
that bring the best returns 10 thelr authors
but the little, simple. and cheap ones- .he
things that seem so absurdly trivial that the
citizen would feel somewhat ashamed OF
bringing them to the attention OF the Patent
Office. o;oa
Edison saws that the profits he has received
from the patents on all his marvellous lnven'
tions have not been sufficient to pay the cost
Of bis experiments. But the man who con-
ceiyed the idea of fastening bit OF rubber
cord to a childs ball, so that it would come
hack to his hand when thrown made 1or-
time ont of his scheme The modern sew
ino.macbine ia miracle OF ingenuIty-the
nroduct of the toll of hundreds OF busy brains
Through a hundred and fifty years, but the
whole brilliant result rests upon the simple
device of putting the eye of the needle AZ 'he
point instead of the other end.
THE LITTLE THINGS THE
MOST VALUABLE.
Comparatively few people regard them
selves "A inventors, but almost everybody
has been struck, at one time or another,
with ideas that seemed calculated to reouce
some of the little frictions OF lie. Osually
such ideas are dismissed without further
thought
"Why don't the railroad company make
its car windows so that they could DE sllo up
and down without breaking the passengers
backs?" exclaims the traveller. III were
running the road would make them IN sach
v way" ,,,., III. man that made this sauce
nan thinking ot?' grumbles the cook. HE
never had to work oyer stoye, or he would
have known how it ought to have been fixed"
"Hang such collar button !! growls the
man who is late for breakfast. off were In
the business I'd make buttons that wouldn't
slip out or break of, or gouge out the BACK
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 the
next convenient opportunity, put their IDEAS
about car windows, saucepans, and collar
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.
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 prize.
TO the person who submits to
1t the simplest and most prom
Using invention. from u CONNER
cial point of view. the company
will give $500 in cash, in adj
ditiOn to refunding the fees for
securing the patent.
1t will also advertise the In
ventiOn 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
this search show his invention to be unpat,
eatabDe, 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 valuablep.operty
to him. The prize will be awarded by a 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:
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 a competition of rather an unusual
nature 1t 10 common to offer prizes for the
best story, or picture, or architectural plan,
all the competitors risklng the loss of their