The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-10-27
! ao5En1y; PETROLEUM TORPEDO.

II -N0 ~ -N>s
),.r ~ -sOBERTs
~ III TORPEDO 60.
81 ,.'sa'o4 Office At the
Is2D PLANING MILL,
voxncr oy Fine and Second streets,
;Near sAe RailrOadJ
.J4ll TITusvILLE, PA.
Owing % the large and increasing demand fsr tho
Csnrissioner Of Patents N refusing " to Wm " RssS va
patent and the decision Of Judge Il. Grtef ru 8.
ssfnics iAe koberte' patent they have LOWERED
Ne price q their Torpedots
TwBNFf. PER CENT.
p that every Operator can afford W ~ Iorpedo
seiors abandoning Well.
Ihe following is the decision rendered by Judge
Gftr On the twenty-second (s2) day OF sei.tsnber
1S In the United States Circuit Court at Phiindei
paia. The case was argued three days by Charles
": KeliF o. New York, b. Y: Lucas and s. A. Pnr.
vance Of Pittsburgh, for defendants, and George
Harding OF Philadelphia, and George Il. Chrisy, Of
Httsburgh for phintf
OPINION OF JUDGE aR1ER.
As write with difficulty can only state the con
illusions to which my mindhas come after car.t,,.
V3oekaSooaoAA
The complainant has exhibited a patent dated
35th Of APRIL 1856 This Is prima facie evidence of
goed title, and puts on the respondents the bur.
nsoe not ,sne,t M ppsrns = yoc OF worthless
year ". Day Il Wal, C. G. Rep; 2AI,l but now
adopt them as afordns rule of decision witch an.
plies clearly to tho present case.
the only question will be as to the validity Of com.
plainants patent Of April q, 1855.
ut waS after speculation had been reduced IN
OfDcttCc.O and After r8Dpafpd
complainant succeeded In overcoming .be nreindce
and ignorance Of % the people on the subject, and
pstsusong tne Pubic that his invention was useful
ater be hd established ts great utility and value
enc when his genius and patient perseverance, in
spit, OF sncers and scofs,' were completely suc.
ssa ssss IT anst S. Rsed who had before made expert
imagined that he had the best right TO the Invention
and after purchasing one more complsnant,s ,s Tor
u:sens Sr q the It, e
tons Of devices and rachinc contained IN comnisin
ants patent. On the 18th Of the same montk the
osIied ss s. into
Ior the purpose OF pirating the complainauts II.
ve9tic,, and suPponing the expense OF litigation,
sSen se1 nS tSs o. : % They have
properly granted By the District Judcc. wy
- oscree De entered for complainant for pse.
pstuN injunction; and Master sppointsd 10 tske
''s ''s R';SS', Z. Gsis. & e; s!3'; gaas..
aets-Ine peeeage retesred 70 6v Judge Gher In
nis former DECISION, Wallace, p go. sdopted -
applicable to this case was % f0llows: -
~ is usually the case. when any vsiusbls d..ov.
Invented, that the attention Of the publn II. - =
turned 70 that subject prsvously, and thst ua.nv
pefsons nave been making researches And svn..{
meats Phtloeophess and mechapicions n,.v H..
N soins measure anticipated in theIr specnistiors
the possibility or probability Of such iscoverv or
invention; many experiments have hen Succs:sf,,,.
nied, coming very near. yet falling short Of ths
cesired result They have produced nothing bene.
hcal. The invention when perfected NAV srniv he-
said to bo the eliminating pOint of many ox;yos ~
mon 9, not only by the inventor. but by manv ~.
ors Tie may have profted ndirectiv bv ths ,s~. Cu
ocssul experiments and failures OF other1 mt i,
sVes tnem no right to claim share of the hcnor NJ
tne pront OF the successful inventor II h when
specuiaton has becu reduced to practice. vhsr AZ.
perment has resulted In die ,ovefy and when TINT
uscovery mas been Perfect' by patient ana eootin
msnuiacture. OF machine has beau tbr's mrSSrsaj
which 10 useful TO public that the partv nsfjn~W
oeaomns apublic benefact0r and entitled n nas.nt
,. ana yet When eenius and patient persevcronce
nave at length succeeded, In sDits ~ snrsrs ."@
scons snme valuable invention or djsco"srv h"v
esaom 10 II followed by reward Envy roAs MIN
oI Ine nonor. while spectators, swndlers snd nj.
sa.sa nOn MN 1f the prnfts. Every unsucceesftil
exLNnmenisr who did or did or did not come y,rv
nsas h matinG discovery nOw claims Il. Evcry ons
who can invent au Improvement Or vary its Erm.
claims right to pirate the original discoyc,v We
seessAst sumncns Morse OF Blanchnrd, or Wood
- prove that this u the usual historv of ~.
atscovery OF invsntion. - w
PRESENT case adds another chspter to tbi.
n9sd uniform histsry ."-3 Wallace. G. q. Rs.
R0oy. ~ W.