SOME SUCCESSFUL PATENTS.
IDEAS THAT PAY. Once a patent takes on, it begins to pay, and the patentee's income is then insured. A man obtained a patent in tho United States for a slight improvement in chaffcutters, 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. Theso 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 he placed in the same successful list, and among his clients Henry Hughes has many such, who are. he is happy to say, doing well. If you have invented anything that fills a want, or replaces any less efficient contrivance, obtain expert information and patent it. For this purpose the offico of Honrv Hughes (A. 11. Holdship), 183 Hereford St., Christchurch, is fully equipped for advising the inventor on the soot. J. E. S. Jackson, Stafford St., is the Timaru agent for Henry Hughes. ...
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14221, 11 June 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)
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194SOME SUCCESSFUL PATENTS. Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14221, 11 June 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)
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