The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-05-18
ROvYRrS pNrROLEUM TORPEDO.
FDOES.
TINE ROBERTS
PETROLEUM TORPEDO co.
Office at tho
BED PLANNING MILL. I.
Corner Of Pine and second Streets,
(Near the RailrOad,)
y. ..-.--- TITUsvrLLE, PA.

Oxirr IN the large aud increasing demand. for the
Roberts q Torpedoes, and the late decision OF the
Commissioned Of Patents IN n rsIatnS 70 VIM . Keea
tanning the Rob.rts' patent they have LOWERED
the price OF their Torpedoes
TWENTY PER CENT.
,o that every Operator can afrord-to try Torpedo
before abandoning Well.
The following is the decision rendered by Judge
Crier on the twcntv-second (22) day of SeDtember.
1850, in the United States Circuit Court at Phladel
mia The case was argued three days by Charles
n Keller OF New York, B. y. Lucas and =. A. Pur !
yinnce of Pittsburgh, for defendants and George
Hariing of Philadelphia, and George II. Chrisiy,
Pittsburgh, for plaintiff.
OPINION OF JUDGE GRIER.
AsIwrite with difficulty can only state the con
cllisions to which my mind has come after care'u
examination Of this case.
a5th of April 1865. This Is prma facie evidence OF
a good title and puts on the respondents the bur-
den Of proof that the patent Is void " worthless.
rear Va. Day ~ wall, {. C. Rep; 229,) but now
adopt them as affordng rule oil decision wnich ap
plies clearly to the present case. .,
As the infringement OF the patent, aan 9 LEU su'
the only question will be as 20 tne '"iuity VI coh
plainants patent Of April 70, leaS.
at was after speculation. had been reduced to
practicc and after repeated experiments thar the
romnlajnant succeeded in overcoming ne preJudlce
and Ignorance of the people on the SUBJECT and
nrrsuadpe the pubc that his invehtiOn was use'ul;
after he had established its great utility and value
and "when his genius anc pausn' Pe,sin @ u,
cessful, that Reed, who had before maoe expert
ments on the same subject, ana was un.uccesslui'
imagined that he had the hest right 10 tne nvenIion
and after purchasing one OF more complainants Tor
i,edoes he applied on the 1st OF November, locr
for a p,tent for substantially tho same com1l9a
tions Of devices and achine contained IN compiah
ants natent. On the 18th OF the same month the
rcsnondeuts formed themselves into company or
corporation called .'The Reed Torpedo Company"
for thu purpose Of pirating the cOmplain1ants IN
and Thus defraud him Of the fruits They have pe-
severed, even after the preliminary injunction very
property granted hy the District Judge
La decree he entered for complainant 1Or per-
petral Injunction. and Master appointed to take
account according to the RR p fRe Dill Ja,.
Norr-The massage referred to bv Judge Grier in
hi. former dtci.'on, 3 Wallace. p. 299 adopted as
applicable to this case was as follows:
at is usually the case, when any valuable aiseoy
ery Ia wade or uny new machine Of great utility j.
invented that the attention OF the public has been
tarned to that subject previously, and that many
I(fsnns hSya been making researches and expert
Inents Philosophers and mechaniCtans may havt
m some measure anticipated in their spgcuations
the possibility or probability OF such discovery or
invention: many experiments have been successful
~ tliei coming very near. yet falling snort oi the
desired result They have produced nothing bene
hcial The invention wher perfected may truly be
said to be the eliminating point OF MANY expert
t,rs. lie NAV inv. profted indirectly by the unsuc
ce.sftl experiments and failures of oiher, but Il
gives them no right to ella IN share OF the honor OF
the profit of the successful inventor 1t is when
speculation has been reduced to practice when ex-
pertinent has resulted in discovery and when t.a'
discovery has been perfected by patient ana contin
lied experiments, when some new compound; art;
manufacture, or machine has been thu produced
which Is useful to the public, that the party making
becomes apubc benefactor and entitledto patent
"Aud yet when genius and patient perseverance
have at length succeeded, in spite Of snsers sand
scoff., some valuable invention or disco"eiy, how
seldom Is il followed BY reward Envy rObs him |
of the honor, while speculatOrs, swindles, ard pi
Rates rob him of the profits. Every unsuccessful |
sxperimenier who did or did or did not come very |
n.ar making discovery nOw claims IT, Every ona
who Gun Invent an improvement or vary Its iorn
claims right to pirate the original discovery; We
need not summons Morse, or Blanchard or Wood |
worth 1prove that this Is the usual history Of eve
~ great discovery or invention
"The present case aods another chapter to this !
long and uniform history ."-2 Wallace, c. q. Re |
perts p. 292