Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1904-03-06 | Page 7 | Offered $20,000 for Her Patent

OFfE E r o Q FOR HER PA PATENT T ENT t Invention Likely to Make Salt lake Woman Wealthy BOON TO SHIRT WAIST GIRL j COtT TO 10 DO 19 A AWAY W AY wi VILt fly flyThe j I The crying naiad f the shirt waist ais girl bu ever evex been absolute ol of I tro security lit tri ti the th or waist and skirt in Ute the the belt The girl Sirl who felt ot of mi bar bolt belt In III the back at every evert stage in her lf life iSito is io Sera on and the which do does away oy with all anxiety anglety on en thiS mU much h studied question Will be a real bles to the half or of which does not wear Such an Invention has been perfected and patented by a 0 Salt Lake woman Mrs Jennings Jenning who has had of offers offers I fers for the rights to ii the put pat puti patI I I l i I Mrs Elmira Jennings eat ent ranging up to Mis Jennings s has been n a dressmaker durin the past fifteen years of her ute life and has l e the matter of perfect ct during the entire shirtwaist period She found no real success ul and set to work to study tudy out one of her own sat satisfaction i faction The little contrivance for which the patent was i last De December cember consists consist of two pieces one of which clamps into tIe waist and one oneto oneto to the skirt band There Is no of tearing either the clothing or orthe orthe the fingers fingen as an is the best fasteners on the marKet today It was the purpose of the tIte inventor to establish a manufacturIng plant her herself self but since the offers front large firms are s sq great and woul l appear t to b be so a advantageous it its je s quite possIble that she will give up UI aU all lin the matter r and sU sell the patent outright S ThIs Is not the tho 1 of Mrs Jennings in the way of Invention A little more than a year ear ag ago she applied for a patent for a fuel fUE l saving grate and it was issued but she has not yet decided juSt what will wUl be done with the right