The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-06-01
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kOUBNTS fkTkOhEVM lVNGN NDO'
TORPEDOES.
THE ROBERTs -
PETROLEUM TORPEDO co.
Office at tho
RED PLANNING MILL,
,lCorner Of Pine and second streets,
linear the RailrOad)
ITUSvILLE, PA.
Owing TO the large and increasing demand for the
Roberts Torpedoes, and the late decision OF the
Commissioner Of Patents In refusing to VIM Reed
patent aud the decision Of Judge r. Grier slis-
taining the Roberta patent theyiRave LOWERED
the price Of their Torpedoes
TWENTY PER CENT.
40 that every Operator can afiord;to try a. Torpedo
before abandoning Well.
The following ia the decision rendered by Judge
Grier on the Ss., day o, ssemSel plsS
phia. The case was argued three days by Charles
NJ Keller Of New York, B. y: Lucas and ); a. Pur-A
viance Of Pittsburgh, for defendants, and George
Pittsburgh, f6R plaintiff.
OPl hon OF JUDGE GRIER.
Az write with difficulty can only state the con
clusons to which my mind has come after careful
examination Of this case
The complainant has exhibited a patent dated
Of the
den Of proof that the patent Is void or worthless
necd not repeat my remarks In the case Of Good.
year vs: Day t2w Wall, c. C. Rep; 229) but now
adopt them as aiiording rule OF decision which ap-
plies clearly to the present case.
As the infringement Of the patent is admit ted,
the only question will be a. to the validity Of COM
plainsnts psssns Of April Is lssS @ ham .o,,r..a
practice and after repeated experiments that the
complainant succeeded in overcoming he prejudice
and ignorance Of the people on tho subject, and
after he had established its great utility and value,
and "when his genius and patient perseverance, in
spite Of sncers and scoffs," were completely sue.
cessful, that Reed, who had before made expert
ments OH the same subject, and was unsuccessful,
imagined that he had the best right to the invention
and after purchasing one OF more complainant tor
pedoes he applied on the let Of November, 1861
for patent for substantially the same combina
tions Of devices and achine contained in complain
ants patent On the 18th of the same month the
respondents formed themselves into company or
corporation called "The Reed Torpedo Company"
for the purpose of pirating the cUmplainants in
vention, and supporting the expense OF litigation.
ard thus defraud him Of the fruits. They have per.
severed, even after the preliminary Injunction very
properly, granted by the District Judge.
petual injunction. and Master appointed to take
IN account according to the prayer Sf !he BILL I,
NorE-The passage referred TO bv Judge Grier II.
his former decision, Wallace, p. 299 adopted as
applicable to this case was as follows:
"1t is usually the case, when any valuable dscov.
cry is made, or any new machine Of great nifty Is
invented, that the attention Of the public has been
turned to that subject previously, and that many
persons have been making researches and expert.
ments Philosophers ana m.chanicians MICA, may have
the possibility or probability Of such discovery or
invention; many experiments have beer successful
ly tried, coming very nenr yet falling short OF the
desired result. They have produced nothing bene-
fetal The invention when perfected may truly he
said to be the eliminating point OF manv expert
mon g, not only by the inventor, but by mauy 9TH
ors tie may hav. proited indirectly by the unsuc
gives thsm right to CAIN 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 that
discovery has been perfected by patient ana contn
ued experiments when some new compound. art
manufacture, or machine has been thus produced
which ia useful to the party making il
becomes apublc benefactOr and entitled to patent
"Aud yet when genius and patient perseverance,
have ut length succeeded, in spite Of sneers aud
SCOTS, some valuable invention or discO"ery, how
Of the honor, while speculators swiudleis and pi.
rates rob him of the profits Every unsuccessful
expsriu,enter who did or did or did not come very
near making discovery now claims it. Every ona
who can Invent an improvement or vary Its form,
claims right to pirate the original discovery. We
need not summons Morse, or Blanchard, or Wood
worth to prove that this is the usual history of eve
p1s:s1. OF .oSs sos.r chapter to this
long and uniform history.'-2 Wallace, g. Z. Re
ports p. S92.