Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1895 — MONEY IN PATENTS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MONEY IN PATENTS.

UTTLE THINGS THAT HAVE MADE MILLIONS. An Inkstand That Already Has Made *2OO,OOO—A PenfThat Pays *40,000 ■ Year and a Boutonniere That Brines in *13,000. Invent Somethin*. Do you need money? If bo, why not give your attention to the Invention of small and useful articles which may

be patented? A little Investigation will satisfy anybody that a great amount of money has been made In recent years from small, and, in some cases, trivial patents. It Is true that the inventor has not in all eases secured much of the profit himself, but It seems that with energy and ordinary business ability he should be able to do so. How trivial the Invention may be Is shown by the statement that the ‘Tigs-In-Clo-ver” puzzle brought in SIOO,OOO. Experlence does not prove that it Is wise for the inventor to occupy himself with

such a thing If he can invent something useful. Patents which did not earn a tenth as much as “Tlgs-ln-Clover” In the same period are profitable still. Of course It Is given to few to invent such things as telephones or valuable Improvements on them, but many Intelligent men must feel themselves capable of devising a mucilage bottle that will not clog, or something else of that humble order of usefulness. The modern tendency in business Is to struggle for a monopoly. Capitalists are not contented with loping rich. They want all the money which the business in which they are engaged is capable of gathering from the people of the whole country. The man without capital apt pears to have no chance of getting con*

trol of any business or Industry. He certainly cannot control the supply of all the beef or all the school books in the land, but there is always one way by which without capital he may obtain a little monopoly of his own. That is by means of an invention and a patent. An enterprising New York firm, realizing the attraction which the subject of small patents would have for many men, make It a business of dealing in them. Its circulaps.aUQw.wbat large sums have already been made by small Inventions, and indicate a

number of others for which the public is now waiting. Among the remarkably profitable small Inventions is an Ingenious automatic shading pen, for which the inventor is to receive $40,000 a year. This pen is used in engrossing, and it makes It possible to use four colors at the same time. A novelty In an auto-

matle inkstand Is another example. Thin keeps an equal supply of clear fttk always ready for the pen. It is said that $200,000 has been realized by thia. An automatic funnel was sold for $57,000, a knitting machine has earned millions, a squirt boutonniere brings royalties of $12,000 a year. Among the inventions which it is promised would realize a fortune are a key-board typewriter which could be sold for $25, a device to deaden the noise made by the typewriter, a way of making kerosene odorless, a cheap en. velope which cannot be opened without detection, a time stamp for street letter boxes, showing time of deposit of letters. There is, of course, great field for Inventions useful In the household. A shoe polishing machine would confer much happiness and Improve the general appearance of the community. The great bar to the happiness of the average pipe smoker is the difficulty of cleaning the Instrument. As yet it cannot be done without much unpleasant labor. A pipe that will not foul will make a fortune.

THIS WAS SOLD FOR $50,000.

A PEN THAT PAYS $40,000 A YEAR.

A BOUTONNIERE SOLD FOR $12,000 A YEAR.

INVENTION THAT HAS EARNED A MILLION