Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1895-11-07
PRIZES ON PATENTS
How to Get twenty-five Hun
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The Winne r has Il Clear Gilt Oh"
Small Fortune, ana the LOseEs
Have Patents that NAV
Bring them I'm stlIi
More.

Would YOU like to make twenty-five nun
dred dollars? 1fyOu would, read careiui!y
what follows and you may see way 10 90 ~
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. 1t has hanaieo tloue.
ands of applications for inventions, pM' u
would like to handle thousands more. There
10 ,,,antv of inventive talent in this country,
needing nothing but n Outrage eht
Z" nroiuce practical results That enconr'
apement the Press Claims Company pro-
poses to give. -
va,T SO HARD AS 1T SEEMS.
A natent strikes most people as an appall'
,p1jv formidable thing. The idea is that an
inventor must be a natural genius, like Edl-
son or Bell that he must put years to delVing
In complicated mechanical problems ano
that he must spend fortune on delicate ex-
neriments before he can get new device 10
q natentable degree of perfection. Ihls de'
lus,on the company desires to dlspe! IL de-
aires to oct into the head of the public clear
comprehension of the tact that 1t is not the
great complex, and expensive Inventions
that bring the best returns to their authors
INT the little simple, and cheap ones-the
things that seem SO absurdly Trivial that 'ne
c;t;zen would feel somewhat ashamed OF
bringing them to the attention OF 'he r"'en'
Office. o;,o,
Edison SAYS that the profits ho has received
from the patents on all his marVelous 'hveh.
lions have not been sufficient TO pay the cos'
of his experiments. But inc man "no Inn
ceived the idea of fastening a bit OF ruoper
cord to a child's ball, so that it would come
hack to his hand when thrown made Tor
tune ont of his scheme. The modern sew
ino.machine ia a miracle OF ingenulty-the
nroduct 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 al Tue
point instead Of the other end
THE LITTLE THINGS THE
MOST VALUABLE.
Comparatively few people regard them
selves "a inventors, but almost everybody
naa been struck, at one time or announcer,
with ideas that seemed calculated 10 reuuce
so,oe of the little frictions of life. Usually
snch ideas are dismissed without further
thought.
"Why don't the railroad company make
its car windows so that they could pe sllo up
and down without breaking the passengers
backs?" exclaims the traveller III were
running the road would make them In SIC"
. way" o
>oD'-'
never had to work oyer stove, or he would
have known how it ought to have been liked
"Hang such a collar button F" growls 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 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 reso we'd 10
offer prize.
TO the person who submits to
1t the simplest and most prOm-
Using invention from Il CONNER
ciaI point OfHieW, the company
will give $500 in cash, in adj
ditiOn to refunding the fees for
securing the patent.
twill 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-
eatable 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 valuable property
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:
-" 49,, -, 1898.
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
best story, or picture, or architectural plan.
all the competitors rsklng 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 to help himself, and the one who
helps himself to the best advantage is to be
rewarded for doing it. The prize is only a
stimulus to do something that would be well