The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-10-22
ROBERTS PETROLEUM TORPEDO.

ROBERTS PETROLEUM TORPEDO.
TORPEDOES.
THS3 RWB ERTs
irETR0LEuM ~RpBDs 90.
al, Office at the
RED PLANNING MILL,
COrner of Pine and seoOad Streets,
Near thc RatirOad,)
TrTUSv1LLE, PA.
Owing to the large and increasing demand for the
Roberts Torpelpes. and the late decision OF the
Commissioner of Patents In refusing to VIM. Reed
patent; a1d the decision Of judge &. Grter sus-
tning the itoberts' patent they have LOWERED
tho price Of their Torpedots
a TWENTY, PER CENT.
so that every Operator can afford ~ try Torpedo
before abandoning Well.
Ihe following is the decision rendered by Judce
Grier on the twcnty.second (22) day of September
1s'l, In the Uated States Circuit Court at Phladel.
phi, The case was argued three days nv tharIes
NJ. Keller Of New York. b. r. Lucas and j. A. pur.
viance of Pittsburgh for defendants, and Georpc
Harding OF Philadelphia, and George H. Uhri,iy Of
AAssepaiEh, iot pihHlu.
OPINION OF JUDGE GRIER
As write with df,cnlty can only state the con
clusions to which my mind has come after car.in
ex animation Of this Ease.
The com ilain1nt has exhibited n patent dated
l'th of April, lsdo This Is prmn facit evidence of
Rood title and puts on the respondents the bur
den or prorf that the patent is void or worthless
need not re,sat my emarks in the case Of Good.
adopt them airordinG rule OF decision which an.
plio> clea Iy To the present Case.
As ihe infringelnent of the patent Is admit ted
the only question will be to the valid tv nj con
plaunn's pntent OF April -, 1853
III wa. after speculation had been reduced to
prnnice,' aud after repeated experiments that the
eonpMlnalt COZ succeeded in overcoming he prejudice
rrrsuafing the public that his invention WAS semi.
after ne ha established its great utility and value
nnn anu when ms gen II. and patient perseverance, in
cs''tnl, that Reed, who had before made experi.
incn's on tne snme suhjcct and WIS unsuccessful,
irngnei that he had the best tight to tue invention
a. d a'terpurchasng one more Complainant, a tor
n"fo.'' hc npplied on the lat of November. 1sH7.
Tor potent for substantially the same coml,inn
suuI,s oi desices and achirr Contained in complain.
ants patent On the 10th of the same month the
re"p)ndnnfs formed themselves into comnanv or
corporation called "rhe Reed Torpedo Cuinnnnv !,
fost,s parpose OF pirating the compainani's In.
ve,tion, aii supporting the expense of litigation.
and thus defrand hiel of the friit. They have ner
scveret even after the pre- iminary Injunction yerv
properly granted hy the District Judge
let -crec he entered for complainant for A mr.
p"fual INJUNCTION. and a Master appointed IN fsEe
al account according to the prayer of the bill
II. =. GRIER, Judge.
NorE-The Passage referred to by Judge Gricr in
hls former deci.'on, Wallace, p. 299 adopted "a
app lc.bfe to this case was NJ follows:
at il u.un'ly the case, when any yaluobIe d;,cor
cry is made, or any new machine of great mi tv "a
Invented, t'at the 'tention Of the public has becn
III mel to that subject previously. and that many
persons nav" been making resea, chcs and eynari
men's. PHILOSOPHERS and meclanicians NAV fav.
IN some measure anticipated in their sD en- otjons
the possibility or probability Of such discovery nr
Invention; many experiments have been successful
~ liled, coming very near, yet f ling short of The
rs.irei resnlt. They have produced nothing ben,
ficial. The Invention wheI perfected NAV trulv he
ssit to he the eliminating point of many eynori
men ?, not only by the inventor. hut by Innnv Nh
ors. he may have prniited indirectly by the nnsuc.
oe .sful experiments and failures of others brt /,
gives them no right to claim share of the hcnor NJ
the profit Of the successful inventor II is when
speculation has been reduced to practice. when az
pertinent has resulted In discovery and when that
discovery has heen perfect by patient ana coniin.
manutacturs, or machine has been thu produced
which - useful to the public, that The pnrty n
becomes apublic bcneictor and entitled to paient
SAND yet when genius and patient perseverance,
nave nave ~ lengtn sncceed.d, In spite Of sn-ers and
seldom is IL followed by reward Envy robs him
OF the honor, " hile speculatOrs swindlcrs md nj
rates rob him Of the prIfits Every unsuccessful
experimenter who did or did or did not come yery
M Mneaf Insking discovery now claims 1t. Every one
VINO can invent an Improvement vary its form
claims right to pirate the original discovery We
need not summons Morse or Blanchard or Wood.
worth to prove that this il the usual history Of eve
~ great discovery or invention.
zine present case ADDS another chapter In this
Seng and Uniform hstory."-2 Wallace, G e. Ke.
pofts p 20A N'