This plan gave the inventor an income of more than $1,000 a year.
PLAN No. 577. BATHHOUSE CURTAINS FOR AUTOS
A lawyer living in a northern city, near which were a number of lakes, health resorts and bathing beaches, frequently took his family in an automobile to some of these places, and together they spent the day in bathing, playing golf, etc.
As the charges for the use of the bathhouses were rather exorbitant, and the bathhouses inconvenient, the attorney rigged up a set of water-proof curtains, enclosing the back portion of the machine, and attached to the frame above by means of hooks, thus giving all the privacy and protection of a regular bathhouse, which all the members of the family could use in turn, at no expense whatever.
Many other persons at the various bathing places noted the utility of the plan and asked the lawyer to make sets for their machines. So numerous were these requests that he at last decided to make the curtains in large quantities, and sell them at a profit of $2.50 per set.
He sold 200 sets that season, and 500 the following season. This was done with no advertising at all.
PLAN No. 578. PHOTOGRAPHED MINES
This photographer made himself familiar with photographing mines. For those who were operating mines and desired to sell stock and wanted pictures of the mines to interest investors, he had made a study of what kind of pictures would most interest prospective investors, and to those compiling prospectuses he made many valuable suggestions. He would make a fixed charge for the trip to the mine, and would spend several days at the property and do his work right or would not go at all.
After he finished his work the pictures were a real asset to the mine owners.