BIG REWARDS FOR IDEAS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11126, 8 February 1930, Page 9

BIG REWARDS FOR IDEAS

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Every year about 10,0 W “inventions,"’ some of whirl) make fortunes for their authors. pour into LondonSo overwhelming is the numbest beeommg that an additional examstaff at the .Patent O/fi'ee is a. voeated. says the Dailv Telegraph.

“We are an inventive nation, and women often some most ingenious ideas,” said Mr G. Drury Coleman, seeretary of the institute of Patm;t( es.

“Little things often bring big profits. The man who invented the muvoijh; top to the collar stud drew royalties of LobOO year for a long time. Every day we got something new ior tin ‘Brain-wave-room.’ Li America nad Germany they arc perhaps less conservative* and more appreciative oi new ideas than we are. hut strang<? and even ridiculous-look-ing ideas often find it good n.* •>.;*- ket.” •The “brajn-wave-room" in a budding in \ ietoria Street. Westmii - ster. contains an interesting coJieef.ion of novelties. Shelves mourn inn from floor to ceiling are packed with the inspirations of to-day. J here wore to be seen complicated mechanical apparatus which it woo'd to j to a professor of engineering to understand • devices intended to revolutionise mo ior ears: curious ]< •. i Tr— PV- efficiency-el a imi ng snu'eepanv. and even sue]) small hut ail-imp tt~ ant things as detachable and dirt-de-fying cuffs. The room is part of the Institute of Patentees, and even into the private office of the secretary many of the newest bright ideas had overflowed , while parcels containing discoveries were still unopened on the firor.

Coleman picked up a few of the latest arrivals. A clergyman lmd invented an egg-whisk from a stick, a piece of strihg, and a few inches of " ire. the total cost of product' .o lading about a penny. There was a kind of Robot sigalman to attach to motor ciirs. so that vehicles travelling behind could be told what they ought to do. If this is adopted drivers will touch a, notice saving ‘‘Pass me.“ “Reverse, - ' “.Slow, -- or whatever instruction is wanted.

If lung hair comes into fashion avail) women will Ik? glad to know that permanently fixed hat pins have hot I ten invented. They need never be taken out of s the hat, and they will always fit exactly the same groove in tile hair. Men will be interested in a new non-drip shaving brush, the “b.'jstles - ’ of which are made of an

a bsorbl ng sponge. For housewive.- there are name;--ous labour-saving devices. A geyser kettle produces instantaneous and continuous hot water. A square protective tin inside the walls of which all frying may he dune prevents splashing on stoves.

A woman has invented a dev.ee

for clipping a purse in a cuff or glove and thus making it thief-proof. A resourceful man has provided for the papering of walls without splash ng about with pads of liquid and seem-

ingly acres of paper. A one-armed man lias a telephone ’ stand with a writing pad which shoots out' automatically in the right place.