DO PATENTS PAY.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14384, 4 March 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)

DO PATENTS PAY.

It would almost be idle, to quote tha enormoiL3 profits derived from patents. The following are a few examples of protfiab'e patents. The Wcstinghou.se air brake mado millions: Mr J. L. Easley's ■ conical glass lemon squeezer sold enormously, and his royalties were extremely heavy. An inventor obtained a patent for ink, and he refused £50,000, ad finally sold it for £OO,OOO. A slight improvement in straw cutters realised forty thousand dollars. Howe, tho inventor of the .sewing machine, derived £IOO,OOO per annum from it. The men who thought of putting metal plates on the soles of hoots, and copper tips to children's shoes, each gained for himself a competency. The patenteo of the stylographic pen rejoiced in an income of *C40,000. ln,,.ed the field is so vast, and the number of profitable patents so great, that it would, perhaps be a. far easier tn.sk t undertake n recapitulation of what kinds of patents do not pay. If vou wish to obtain a patent write l-o Henry Huchrs, IP3 Hereford St., rUv'stohnroh. Timartt agent. Mr J. K. S. Jackson. Stafford Street...