Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-03


 to see it work--another example of the impracticability of the inventor
 De Quillfeldt invented a stopper for a bottle. the one that pulls up over the mouth and is frightened by pushing down a clamp It was the newest and most practical thing in bottles in it's day.
 Its owner is alleged sto have made sl5.000.000 out of it.
 But William H. Painter, of Bal timore, invented the Crown Bottle Seal which nowadays has to be pulled off Of every bottle of hard or soft izzy water that the nation drinks. It Is so common that no key ring is complete without an opener for it. Painter is still big man in the company that makes his stopper. and his money is mounting up every minute. Poor De QuillfeIdt got an other uppercut when some advocate of simplicity fitted a piece of paste board into the mouth Of a milk bot tie. It seems hard Co simplify this.
 If you are 35 you were born early enough to wear a shoe with brass tip on it. The Silverthorn brass tip was the making of a shoe in which the boys of our age were wont to take pride. Incidentally it was the making of Silverthorn.
 The Father of Chewing Gum.
 Chewing gum was put on the mar ket in the early seventies. Before that the youth who sought to waste their saliva had to resort to the sweetgIm tree down by the old spring But Adams took out his patents in '71 and has been the power behind mil lion active jaws every day since He and his are also among the private yacht crowd and the yacht output must needs be increased or the chew ing gum money will soon get rusty.
 The "see that hump" hook and eye people are making millions today from the simplest invention of them all. There is not @ husband in the land who does not know all about hooks and eyes. Yet not one of these hook ers-up thought of putting a hump in the hook Do keep t from coming un. hooked. Had any one of them gotten the idea and patented it, he would have controlled the hook and eye bus mess, All that was necessary was to make bend in the hook This was the hump A hump may, under certain circumstances. be patented. The De Longs patented theirs.
 A Blind Mans Invention.
 Harry Hardw1ck invented an in. grain carpet. There was new inter winding of the threads of it that kept it from wrinkling. Hardwick became S4, 900, 900 the better for the interwind- ing. Charles Edward Mccarthy was a blind man. He devised a manner of attachment mule power to a cotton gin. He came up from South Carolina and get his patents. Then he travelled among the farmers of the south and sold them his mule attachment. He became independent. A man by the name of Daley, by nature an advent. urer, came into a patent attorneys of flee in Washington some years ago and said he wanted to make an appli- cation for a patent On maple sugar. The man was shabby and unkempt, and the patent did not appear in a favorable light to the attorney. lie advised against making the appiica- ton, which dealt chiefly with glucose and hickory bark. The man Insisted, the application was made out and, to the surprise of the attorney, granted. The shabby man appeared at the same office year later and was not recognized. for he was no longer shab- by far from it. He intraduced himself and asked the attorney to file some contracts for him. They called for var ious state rights for his maple sugar. and represented many thousand of dollars
 4 castj1on tombstone is an inyen- ton that has met with a popular re- sponse. It covers the grave and saves money. is practical and effective. R. R. Catlin, of Washington, invented a pattern cat which had to he stuffed with hay and sewed up to become Q living image of Tabby. The game "PigSin- Clover" was a coiner of money, but the inventor was unable to prevent infringements and lost much of the possible profits. This was due to the fact that he sprung the game while his patent was merely aT- piled for and mol granted.
 The rubber returning ball netted it's inventor $15,000 and the manufac- turers much more.
 Altogether the inventing business has proven occasionally profitable even to the inventor. The halcyon days ara hoWever- largely mast for