Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1895-02-07
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get twenty-five Hun
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The winner has Il Clear Gilt OF n
Small Fortune, and the Losers
Have Patents that may
Bring them in still
More.

More.
WOuld YOU like to make twenty-five nun
dred dollars? Ifyou. would, read carefully
what follows and you may see a way 10 q" H.
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. 1t has handled thous'
ands of applications for Inventions, nut 1t
would like TO handle Thousands mere. lhere
is plenty Of inventive talent in tins country,
needing nothing but e n cou IA eh'
70 produce practical results. That enco"r
ayement the Press Claims Company pro-
poses to give.
NOT so HARD As 1T SEEMS,
A patent strikes most people as an app"l.
ingly formidable thing. The IDEA 10 'hHt an
inventor must be natural genius hHe Eol'
son or Bell tina, he must put years 10 ociVlnS
in complicated mechanical problems ana
flat he must spend fortune ON delicate ex'
perimenis before he can get new device 10
a pnteHtable degree of perfection. ms de-
lus,on the company desires to dispel. 1T de-
sires to get into the head Of the pubic clear
comprehension of the tact that it is not 'he
great, complex, and expensive inventions
that bring the best returns to their authors
bnt the little. simple, and cheap ones-the
things that seem 50 absurdiy trivial that the
citizen would feel somewhat ashamed OF
bringing them TO the attention Oh Tue r"'eu'
Office.
Edison SAYS that the profits he has received
from the patents on oil his marve'ous 'h'eh
tions have not been sufficien, topay 'he cost
Of his experiments. But the man VINO con
ceived the idea of fastening Int OF rubber
cord to chid's ball, so thu, it would come
back to his hand when thrown made lor'
tune ont of his scheme The modern sew
lug. machine is a miracle OF necnulty-the
product of the toll ofhundIeds OF busy Drains
through hundred and fifty years, but inc
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.
Comparatively few people regard them
selves as inventors, but almost everybody
has been struck, at one time or another,
with ideas that seemed calculated to reuuce
some Ofthe little fric'ions OF HE Usually
such ideas nre dismissed without lnrthfr
thought.
why don't the railroad company make
its car windows 80 that they could be slid up
and down without breaking the passengers
hacks?" eXclaims the traveller. III l were
running the road would make them IN s1ch
way"
What was the man that made this satce-
pan thinking ot?' grumbles the cook. "Hc
never had to work oyer stove, or he would
have known how it ought'o have been h%eo.
Hang such a collar button y grows the
man who is late for breakfast. I'll were m
the buslr ess I'd make buttons that wouldn't
slip out or break off, or gougc out the BACK
ofmy neck
And then the various sufferers forget about
Their creyanccs and begin to think OF some
i Il Of
next convenient opportunity, put Their ideAs
about Car windows, sauccpans, ana co'lhr
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.
ATEMPIlNG OFFER.
To induce people to keep track of their
bright ideas aud see what there is in them,
the Press Claims Company has resolved TO
offer prize.
TO the person who submits 10
1t the simplest and most pr"m-
Using invention. from u com ner-
ciaI point Of> lew, the company
will give $4,000 in cash, in adj.
ditiOn 10 refunding The fees for
securing the patent.
twill also advertise the in
veniiOn free Ofcharge.
This offer il subject to the following con-
ditons:
Every competitor must obtain patent tor
lis invention through the company. He
must first apply for preliminary search,
the cost Of which will be five collars. Should |
this search show his invention to be urpat
1.
pense. Otherwise he will be expected to
complete his application and take out pat /
ent IN th4 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 valuable property .
to him. The prize will be awarded by jury
consisting nf three reputable patent atorn-
eys of Washington. Intending competitors
should fill out the following blank, and for.
ward 1t with their application
- -, 1893.
II submit the within described invention
In competition for the Twenty-Five Hundred
DoIlnr Prize offered by the Press Claims
Company
No Blanks in this Competition.
This is II competition of rather an unusual
nature 1t IS common to offer prizes for the
best story or picture, or architectural plan.
all the competitors rskng the loss OF their
labor and the ctsstul one merely selling
his for The amount Of the prize. But the
Press Claims Company's otter is something
entirely ditieren, Each person is asked
merely to help himself, and the one who
helps himself to the best advantage is to be
rewarded for doing it. The prize is only
to do something that would be well
worth doing 1t. The architect whose com.
pettive plan for a club house on certain
corner is not accepted has spent his labor on