The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-08-06
ROBERTS, PETROLEUM TORPEDO.
TORPEDOES.
THE ROBERTS
PETROLEUM TORPEDO co.
Office at the
RED PLANING MILL.
Corner of Pine and second Streets.
Near the Rajlroad,)
lTUSVILLE. pa

Owing ~ the large and increasing demand for the
Hoberts Iorpednes, aud the late decision of the
commissioner OF Patents in refusing to VIM Reed
patent and the decisi N of judge +. G Grier sus
tanning the hoberts' patent they have LOWERED
she price OF their Torpedoes
TWENTY, PER CENT.
60 thM every Operator can afford ,U-try n Tornedo
before abandoning Well.
The following is the decision rendered bv .yodco
Gricr on the twenty.second fa3l d,v of sa9y, ouge
1859, in the United States Crcnit Court n, ph'ia
phia The case was argued three days bv f'h.Ia.
S,sIce Meaer s o. New York B. Lucas and s. A. PnT
HsrS;n OF ~ rt?ppsnurG for defendants, and Ceoreef
f1teburgh, for plaintiff s''
OPIN1oN.OF JUDGE GRIER.
As write with difficulty can only s,,,o A., 49,
, c.ascns 70 winch my mind has come after cnrei
18th OF April, 1855. This /. pr ma fci,.
gooa tite' ani puts on the respondents the bn,
aen 0a proof thn the patent is void or worthless
hee' NOT repeat my remarks in the case IF Col
year W; Day t2 Wall, c. c. Rep; 2sgI bn, ooou no
adopt them as aflording rule OF decision wicb % o
pics clearly to the present case 'i'h az
AS the Infringement of the paten, ;s oa..,
the only question will be as to the y,id, f a' t,u'
palnan's patent OF April 25, 1858 VI .0in'
rroci,oo wa. , ai1er speculation had been reduced to
prhcllce and after repeated experiments tho. ~, w
complainant succeeded in oyerconin~ he ana. nne
anu ignorance or the people On the suhiec, aI
psea.uaaiag tae public that his invention was nscfi mi
md x-,1,a
ana when ms genius and patient nnrSorara a ''ue,
spIe OF sncers and scoif-," were fomn,etai,. % AZ
ressn . ~ r'at az Heed, who had before made experi.
ments on the same subject, and was rns,,oaps
imagined that he had the hest RI ,bt to ,I;
an9 aiter purchasing one or more Connainan,9 u' ,
PedOes ne applied on tho LIST OF Noyemher- ,ss7
~ III Pstsht ior substantially the same con,ti,,'
Tons OF devices and n, hino cort,ineJ;n t ,Ht
ants sitent On The 18th of the same 1nomtb M
fs1med themselves into company or
for the purnosa os,'eS os rhe Reed Torpedo Copany,
hn ,.t,s-
vettlon and supporting the expense Of Tt@o,inn
aiu = ,n.s deiraud him of the fruits They have ner
properly granted hy the District .jndco n''io" very
Let d,cree be entered for complainant ror nor
1 puu, ny.nclion and Master appointed 10 fake
al account according to the prayer Of the bill ''
H. e. GRIER, Judge.
NorE.-Tho passage referred to bv Ju1ee Crier in
ann icaht t asttson Wallace, p. 299 adopted as
"Pp .c.oie TO iillS case was as follows.
~ Is usually the case, when any yolnohls d;.o,v
on,d a,ue, or any new machine of great ulii ia
rne to- tha, , sne attention Of the public has been
- .n,u ~ that subject previously, and that many
persons hnve been making reseirches and ornari
nseuts. philosophers and mechanicans may Eovn
tha se m,;Hsre anticipated in their sprcations
iiiNen'ioh; many experiments have been succc:sr
~ ,i,eG coming very near. yet falling short Of the
uesI"i ,i, result They have produced nohinr bcne.
neal ih', Invention when perfected NAV truly he
sid to be tho eliminating point of MANY ey1ya,i
men 6, not only by the inventor hut by many Din
ors lie may have pioiited Indirectly by the IpsJlc.
eessfu experiments and failures Of others bnt !,
gives them right to cla m a share of the bcnnr Of
fhc prom OF the successful inventor IL is when
speculation has been reduced to practice when ey.
di.covery has been perfected by patient ana contin
ned experiments, When some new comDound art
manufacture. or maeiiinc has been thu. produced
Mc Is use'nit 20 thc llni'ct thai the party inaknsii
becomes apublic b,ncictOr and entitled 10 n rate1t
"Aud yet when genius and patti mt perseverance,
nave Mt length succeeded, in spi of sn, er. and
.coits some valuable invention or dis.o"erv. how
seldom is il followed by reward Envy rob. him
Of the honor, while s2eculaors, swindc. 5, and ui
yates rub him OF tho profits. Every unsucce,stul
"Nl'erimcnler who did or did or did not come very
near making II discovery claims it. Every ons
who can Invent IN Improvement or vary its hirm
claims right t. pirate the original discovery we
need not summons Morse, or Blanchard or Wood.
worth to prove thst this ia the usual history of cy,
~ great discovery or invention
"lhe present case ADDS another chapter t. this
long and uniform histOry.'-2 Wallace, {. L. lie
;pOsle s92.