The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-08-03
ROBERTS PETROLEUM TORPEDO.
TORPEDOES.
THE ROBERTS
PETROLEUM TORPEDO CO.
Office At the
RED RLANING MILL,
Near the Ratlroad,)
1TUSVILLE, PA.

Owing to the large and increasing demand for the
h0herts' Torpedoes. and the late decision of the
Commissioner Of Patents In refusing to VIM Reed
patent. and the decision of judge h. e. Grier sus.
the price Of their Torpedoes
TWENTY PER CENT.
20 that every Operator can afford to try Torpcdo
beiore abandoning Well.
The following IL the decision rendered nv .Judgo
Hrier on the twcnty.sccond (22) day of seitember
kxh. In the United States Circuit Court M Philndol
Pn'1; The case was argned three days by Charles
Vance OF Pittsburgh, for defendants, and Grorrer
Harding Of Philadelphia, and George H. Chris,y' o
Fittsoargh, for plaintiff.
OP1NlONlOF JUDGE GRIER.
"A: write with difficulty can only state the con
cms,1ns 20 which my mind has come after a careu
The cnm:iainant has exhibited patent dated
2st' Of April. 1865. This is prma fRcie evidence Of
goo% % t,.e, ana p,ts on the RESPONDENTS the bur.
need not repedt INV remarks in the case Of Good
year vs.: Day j2 Wall, C. C. Rcr: 2s9.l bnt no,y
plies clearly to the present case. ~
A., AZ .ne ,niringement OF the patent is almi, ted
painanfB patent of April q. 1858 - '0"'
1T was after speculation had been rc,,,cod IN
prncticc," and after repeated experiments that the
complainant succeeded i'm overcoming he nre;ndce
anu ignorance OF the people. on the subject. and
aier ne mad established its great utility and yalne
and "when his genius and patient perseverance, in
spns o. , smcers ana scos,' were completely sue.
cessiul, that Reed, who had before made exneri
menfs ON the same subject, and was nnsnccessfri
imagined that he hal the best right to the inyenrion
ana altes purchasing one or more complainant ! tor
pedOes, ne applied on the fst of November 1St7
inr patent for substantially the same combina
tons Of devices and achine taineu in eonnla;r
anrs patent On the 18th Of the same month the
respondents formed themselves into !. COMPANY or
corporation called 1.-The Reed Torpedo Comnnnv ),
Ior the purpose OF pirating the c0mplainapi's in
seI'S eh ,S ana sGportn: the expense OF litigation,
severed, even after the preliminary iniuncon verv
properly Grsnted by tho District Judge
Ict decree he entered for complainant for n per.
petual injunction. and Master appointed to tpL,
an account according to the prayer Of the Lill,
Is Z. GRIER, Judge.
ms i?rmer decision, Wallace p. 800 adopted a.
applicable to this case was follows: US
IT Is Usually the case when any valuable di.cov
cry naue or any new machine OF yreSR uiIitv il
Mvented that the aitention OF the public has Lonn
turned to that subject previously, and that many
persons nave been making researches and expert
IN some measure anticipated In their snpc,;iot;ons
the possibility or probability of such discovery nr
Invention; many experiments have been successful.
desired result. They have produced nothin, h.na' @
neal The invention when perfected may truly be
SAN TO ne the eliminating point of many experi.
1900 = ""' VIZ INVENTOR. Dtlt by 9th:
ers. tie may hav. pro,ed indirectly hy ihe ;,ns,c.
ee1sill experiments and failures of others, but II
gives ten no right to claim share of the he nor of
the profit OF the successful inventor II is when
speculation llas been reduced to practice, when ey
pertinent iia- resulted IN discovery. and when that
-covery mas been perfected by patient ana contin.
1iei experiments, when some new Compound art.
manufacture or machine has been ihli. producri
winch Is useful to the public, that the part making IL
Derolhcs apuhc beneactOr and entitled to n patent
"Aud yet when genius and patient perseverance
have at length snccredcd, in spite of sncers and
scniis, some valuable invention or disco"ery, how
Of the honc,, whilc spcculatOrs, swindi 8, and nj
rates rob him of the profits. Every un,uccessfil
exlcrimenter who did or did or did not come yrr,
near making n discovery now claims it.. Evry on:
who can Invent all Improvement or vary its form
claims right to pirate The original discovery. W.
med not summons MOrst. or Blanchard or Wood
worth to prove tht this Is the usual history of eve
~ grrat discovery or invention.
"The present case ADDS another chapter to tbi,
long and uniform history."-2 Wallace, c. Z. Re
ports p 292.