An Invitation to Every American Who Has an Idea for a Better Petroleum Product W i t h i n the petroleum field. The Sinclair Plan now offers to provide that assistance.
To encourage progress, The Sinclair Plan will open the doors of the company's great petroleum laboratories to the best ideas of inventors everywhere.
The Sinclair Plan Under this Plan, Sinclair is opening up its great research laboratories at Harvev, Illinois, to independent inventors w h o have sufficiently good ideas for better petroleum products. Sinclair Research Laboratories have nine modern buildings equipped to handle every phase of petroleum research. These laboratories were built w i t h an eye to the future, and their potential capacity is larger than is required for current w o r k . This capacity w i l l be made available f o r d e v e l o p i n g the best ideas o f o u t s i d e inventors. I f y o u have a n idea for a better petro leum product o r for a new application o f a petroleum product, y o u are invited to submit it to the Sinclair Research L a b o r a tories, w i t h the provision that each idea must first be protected, in y o u r o w n i n
Americans are often h a m INVKNTIVI·. strung today. Not because of any lack o f ideas, but because o f a need for large and expensive facilities t o find out if and how their ideas work. This was no obstacle in our earlier da\s. W i t h nothing but his o w n hands and a few dollars, Henry Ford proved that he could build an automobile that ran. Eli Whitney built his cotton gin in a barnyard w i t h homemade tools—-and it worked. In contrast, the first pair oi~ nylon stockings took ten years of research time and S70,O00,O0u. T o d a y , science and i n v e n t i o n have become so complex that a man w i t h an idea for a better product often needs the assistance of an army o f specialists and millions w o r t h of equipment to prove his idea has commercial value.
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How to Participate Instructions on how and where to submit ideas under The Sinclair Plan are con tained i n an Inventor's Booklet that is available on request. W r i t e t o : Executive Vice-President, Sinclair Research Labora tories, Inc., 630 Fifth A v e n u e , New Y o r k 20, Ν. Υ . for y o u r copy of this booklet. Important: Please do n o t send in any ideas u n t i l y o u have sent for and received the instructions.
SINCLAIR - A Great Name in Oil
SINCLAIR RESEARCH LABORATORIES at Harvey, Illinois, have con tribu ted many of today's most important developments in the field of petroleum. V O L U M E
terest, b \ a patent a p p l i c a t i o n , or a patent. I f the directors of the laboratories select your idea for development, the\ w i l l make, in most cases, a verv simple deal w i t h v o u : In return f o r the laboratories* investment o f time, facilities, moncv and personnel, Sinclair w i l l receive the p r i v i lege of using the idea free f r o m royalties. This in no way hinders the inventor f r o m selling his idea to o t h e r companies or f r o m m a k i n g any k i n d o\' arrangements he wishes w i t h o u t f u r t h e r reference to Sinclair.
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UnderThe Sinclair Plan, the available capacity of these laboratories is being turned over to developing the promising ideas of inventors everywhere.
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