Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1895-01-24
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get twenty-five Hun
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The winner has Il Clear Gilt ora
small Fortune, and the Losers
nnye Patents that NAV
Bring them I'm still
More.


Would YOU like to make twenty-five nun
dred dollarsI 1fyou would read care,uiiy
what follows aud you may zee way 10 90 IL.
The Press Claims Company devotes huch
attention to patents. II has han"'e" .n"o: :.
snds Of applications for inventions, but II
woud ike to handle thousands more There
10 nlpniy of inventive talent in this country,
needing nothing but IN courag gem en-
e, nrm1uce practical results. That enco"r'
acemcnt the Press Claims Company pro-
poses to give.
NOT 50 HARD As 1T SEEMs,r
A patent strikes most people as an appall-
ingly formidable thing The idea Is tha1 an
inventor must te natural genius, llke Fol
son or Bell tina hc must put years to delving
IN complicated mechanical problems ano
flat he musy&pcnd fortune ON delicate e.
perimcnls before he can get new device 10
a patepxable degree OF perfection lh,s ue'
lusyonfhe company desires to dlspei' ~ oe-
SIZES to get into the head OF the pubic c'ear
comprehension Of the tact that IL Is no. .no
great. complex, and expensive Inventions
,n.t h,ing 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 fateh'
Office :,
Edison saws that the profits lie has received
from the pntcnts ON all his marvellous lnVen-
tons have not been sufficient to pay the cost
of his experiments. But the man who con
cciycd the idea of fastening II bit OF ruooer
cord To childs ball, so that II Woulo come
back to his hand when thrown maze LOT
tune out of his scheme The modern sew
lug machine is \ miracle OF ingenuity
a.,l d. 1c n
through hundred and fifty years, but the
whole brilliant result rests upon the simple
device of putting the eye of the needle al Inc
point instead Uf the other end.
THE LITTLE THINGS THE
MOST VALUABLE.
Comparatively few people regard them
aelyes rs inventors, but almost everybody
has been struck, at one time or another,
with ideas that seemed calculated to reduce
some ofthe little fric,ions OF life. Usually
such ideas are dismissed without further
thought.
"Wby 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 l would make them IN such
. way"
What was the man that made this sauce
never had to work oyer stove, or he would
have known how it ought to have been hxed,
Hang such collar button " grow's the
man who is late for breakfast. "lf were in
the business I'd make buttons that wouldn't
slip out or break of, or go'lge 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 at the
next convenient opportunity, put their lae"s
about car windows, Saucepans, ana coiiar
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 Tie 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 prize.
TO the person who submits to
IL the simplest and most prom
Using invention, from n CONNER
cial point Of lew, the company
will give Sc 500 in cash, I'm adj
ditiOn 10 refunding the fees for
securing the patent.
twill also advertise the in.
ventiOn free Ofcharge.
This offer is subject to the following con-
dilions
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-
entable, he can withdraw without further ex
n,l. ln, h., tod tn,
complete his application and lake out pat
ent in tn. 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
Il patent that ought to he a valuable property
to him. The prize will be awarded byn jury
consisting nf three reputable patent a'torn- !
eys of Washington. Intending competitors
should fill out the following blank. and for.
ward it with their application
-" -, 1898 |
~ 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 II Is common to offer prizes for tho
hest story. or picture or architectural plan.
all the competitors riskng 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 10 help himself, and the one who |
helps himself to the best advantage is to be /
rewarded for cling it, The prize is only q
stimulus to do something that would be well
worth doing 1t. The architect whose com.
pctiiive plan for club house on a certain