Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-05-22
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Quartz PulVerizer and Piracy.
a cARR 10 THE PUBLIC.

,a.i AcARR 10 THE PUBLIC. ,.
The undersigned having spent many years
/ IN inventing machine for hullinR or sc6ur-
ing grain and seeds, discovered tbsL ousrtz
rock and other hard substances could Be
pnlveriEed in the experimental machine
used IN conducting d series Of experiments
70 perfect the said hullihg machine. After
haYing pulveriEed quartz pebbles in said
experimental machine, and showed samples
70 many Of my friends and wrote letters 10
others, enclosing samples of pulyerized
quartz, charles Howell carne 10 me at The.
grsin hulling mill, corner Of Summer and
Leonard stFeetsJ on the Flats, on the 4th
day OF May, 1850, and commenced telling
me that he had brother who was splen-
did meehanic--a millwright by trade that
he his brother) had got rich building mills
IN South America had gone West TO collect
debt, and while there wrote him pronos.
ing 70 60 10 Piks's Peak. Having invested
all the means had In the grain hllIing
msehine, and being broke up for the want
OF more meansrte carry out the programme,
and knowing that said Howell had been un.
tortunste in 1asipess, and supposing him
honeat5 ah0nRad him saia machine and is
operation on quartz pebbles. The day he
frat came he brought one Of his pattern
makers 70 see the machine, when we operat-
ed it again. Some time IN the week follow
ing he came with his other pattern maker
IN my sbsenee-found the mill locked but
got the key out Of the cooper shop adjoining
the mill, where had left it for one Of nv
boys, when they opeIated said machine
again and left the chimney of, exposing
the inside Of the machine to view. Shortly
after that, said Howell proposed some modi-
hcetions in the machine, 70 which I OBJ
jected,
The next time met Howell he said that
the terms had proposed were net liberal
enough,
A few weeks after this, LEARNED that said
Howell had made and put in operation,
without my consent, machine for pulyer-
izing quartz by means substantially the
same as discovered by me, and claimed
said machine as his invention, that he in
tended to get It patented. It was then sp-
parent why he proposed the modification.
Z filed a csveat as soon as possible after
learning that he was pirating my discovery.
Other parties came and saw the operation Of
my original quartz pulveriEer. and wanted
the privilege Of building them. Said How
ell has been to one Of said parties and tried
TO bribe him into his interest
The Commissioner of Patents gave me no.
lice 10 complete my application for Quartz
PulveriZer within three months from July
81, 1850, which I did.
Jan. %, 1881, received notice of inter
ference with Charles Howell, assigned to
Peter Hannay, Of Washington, D. G. Tssti-
mony to be closed Msrch 18th case to be
heard the goth.
Feb. llth, said Hannay was in this city, |
when he was heard to say that he "would |
prevent Stevens from getting patent"
March 9th, Howell and Haunay's lawyer |
to give me what it would cost to |
take testimony, which declined to accept,
and told sad lawyer that Charles Howell |
had no more right TO my discovery than he
had to ons Of my children Knowing said.
Howell to be q pirate, as stated in my first |
card, relis on my caveat to prove priority |
in the absence Of other tsstimouy, which It |
was not necessary to produce, as Howell nor |
Hsnnay did not appear TO take testimony, |
knowing they could not produce any truth
full testimony to overthrow my published |
statement, but in lieu Of that, undertook |
to browbest, By saying that HannAy was a !
man Of means and could out law me.
March goth, wrote 70 the Commissioner |
of Patents TO the effect that relied on my |
caveat TO prove priority.
March 2lst, received notice Rom the act |
ing Commissioners of Patents, that the time
for closing testimony had, at the request Of
Ohas. Howell, been continued to the first
Monday in June. / procured a copy of
Mr. Howoll's reasons for asking a con-
tinuance, when I found that Peter Han I
nay had made an affidavit that a man |
ct Pixies Peak was q naterial witness
in tbs case, which is trumped up in order TO
deprive me Of ny just and lawful rights,
and TO get more time to deceive the unwary,
for Howell has admitted TO several reliable
persons that he had seen my Quartz Pulver-
izer in operation before he got up his pratt
cal aldekine, besides he expressed his skeD-
ticism TO the friend that told him about my
Qutartz Pulveriser. Hesaid he seen Stevens
machine but understood it was for hulling
wheat he did not belispe that quartz coisl8 Be
paluerised IN that s0ay, but said that he would
call and see it, which he did, IS stated in my
card Of December 6th, 1850. Said Howell
had the hardihood TO make oath, claiming
my discoVsry-only ten days after filed nay
csyeat. Since then he admitted that be
merely claimed striking the quartz "slant-
ing blow" and took up stick to illustrate,
At the time his lawyer undertook to brow
beat me he claimed that the two machines
were NOS alike. If that was 50, it is very
inconsistent 70 pursue such course. The
truth is, that Howell, and those persons that
are knowingly helping him on in his pira-
ey, are playing desperate game, such as
their children would be ashamed Of, if they
are trained upto respect the right Of others.
Said piraticsI machine is illustrated in the
March number Of the g Working Farmer"
under the heading of HoWelrs Quarts and
Universal Mill. : tt5a Ass5 -
Howell put said machine IN operation for
pulverizing grain for feed, in Cleveland @,
and was creditably informed that it was
condemned as being unfit for that use, as it
took too much power according to the work |
done.
HThis Is not said HoWell's first attempt 10 de- |
fraud the inventor out Of his just rights, as |
the testimony now in the Patent Office, in |
the Hozle Rotary Harrow case tends to |
show, and clearly proves his completely with |
others for that purpose.
There Is q reliable man in this city who |
spent several weeks with said Howell with |
q view Of taking an interest in his piratical
machine, and Rfter getting my report, snd
the report Of my friends, he came 70 the
conclusion that Howell had pirated my dis
covery, and therefore declined hsYing any
thing further TO do with him.
am now creditably informed that said
Howell is operating in the city Of New York,
at Q. ". -Mapes, I26 and LIS Nassau street,
with nay discovery. -1e d .trtt p
Any reasonable amount Of unimpeeehh-
bic testimony can be produced in this cisyto
subsiantiate the truth Of the above state
ment, and many additional iacts Ii relation
thereto, can be submitted. ~.
OLIVER P. STEVENS.
Cleveland, May IS, 1851. e'-e.e--.