SOME SUCCESSFUL PATENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13840, 27 February 1909, Page 3

SOME SUCCESSFUL PATENTS.

Once a patent takes on, it begins to pay and the patentee's- income ,is then insured. A man obtained a patent in the United States for a slight improvement in chaff 'cutters, and. after eight months sold it for £BOOO. -another inventor obtained a patent to thresh and clean grain and sold it in fifteen months. for £12,000, . while a third had a patent monopoly in a special printer's ink and finally sold it for £12,000. These are ordinary cases of minor inventions involving no great inventive powers, and of which hundreds go out of the patent office every year. .-■...'" New Zealand inventions can likewise be placed in the same suceesful- list, and among his clients Henry Hughes has many such, who are, he is happy to say, doing well. If yon have invented anything that fills a want,- or replaces any loss efficient contrivance, obtain expert information and patent it. For this purpose the office of Henry Hughes (A. R- Holdship, manager), ,183 Hereford Street, Christchurch, is fully equipped for advising the inventor on' the spot. J. E. S. Jackson, Stafford« Street, Timaru agent for Henry Hughes. ...