The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-12-14
ROBERTS' PETROLEUM TORPEDO.
ROBERTS, PETR@LEUM TURPEDO.
TOR,P EDOES.
THE ROBERTS
PETRcIEY.1 TORPEDO CO.
..ac ut l.ac
RED r91.ATING HILL.
Oor::e- ,al'..ac TT 1 Sec 0nd Strccts.
NJ: e T.citsOEd,)
E.TCSVILLE, 1A. ;.


Owing 20 TO lsr,;, cnd Increasing demand for the
Roberts Tc-peioe0, aud the laio decision of the
Comr,is1incer " Patents ia relusiug 20 Wm Reed
paterv a.l,. shs decision o. Jlds, Il. O. Gner sus-
taiuiis thu Rot ,r,s' plteat they havo LOWERED |
the price Of their Forpedoes
.rTEMrS.. PER CENT.
40 that every Operator can afford W t-y Torpedo
before Abandoning Well.
The following IS he decision rendered BY Judge
Or On the ,wcDty-t -tacoRG t22) day of September
1882 in the United S.ates Circuit Court at Phladel.
phia. The cssa was a-.,ned three days by Charles
NJ. kellec q New York, Il. f. iucss and s. 4. Pur.
VANCE Of Pittsburgh, for defendants, and George
Harding o. .iateph!a, and George t. Chsi.,y, Of
Pittsburgt, for plaintiff.
OpINIcN OF JUDGE cRIEa
As write win 0f.culty can only st.te the con
clusions to Which my r,ina ha. come after carsfu
ex xsninatiar o.. t,,is cas..
The conp.ainaot has exhibited paten. dated
18th Of April, 1855. mi, is pr.na tacie evidence OF
good title, .nd pu.s ou tho respondents the bur-
den of pronf .hGt the rstent s VOID or worthless.
neea not repeat my remarks in tho case of Good.
year W. Day u wan, @ c. Keep: 229) bot
pics clea.ly TO the present case.
As the Infringement. of the pateu. is admit ted,
the only question will 5sas to The validity of com.
Spi,inan patent OF April ?j, 1868.
\ ut was after speculation had been reduced to
practice and e'tcr repeated experiments, that the
eoiup.anaat succeeded in Overcoming he prejudice
mnd ignorance OF tue people on the subiect and
persaAding the naolic that his invention was u.eN
after he mad established its treat utility and value
and when MS genius and patient perseverance, in
spite of sucCcs aud scots, were Completely snc.
ces,ful, tnat Reei, who had before made expert.
m.nts ON the same sutJect, and was Unsuccessful,
imagined tuat he had the best light TO heinyen,ion
a'c aiteI pufchasin! one or more Compainant's tor
pedoes. he applied on the lst OF November 1861
FOR patent for Substantially the SAME comhina
AUiis vi devices and aChne cd i'm
AMI patent On tue 10Th OF the same month ~
respondents formed thanlseves into a comn,ny or
corporation cailei The Reed Torpedo Company, u
tuC lF mir in.,
veltion, AMI sulportin, tue expense Of ltin,ton
AID thus defraud him of the lrults. They have per
severed even after the preliminary Injunction Very
properly granted by the District Judge
Lct d:cree be entered for mpainlnt for per
Pctual injunction, and a Master appointed TO take
a'i aciouIit ACCORDING to the prayer of the bill
NorE.-The passage referred 70 bv Judge C,rier /,
his former decl. on, Wallace p. 29J adopted a.
app lcabe to this case Was follows;
1T Is usually the case, when any valuable discoy
cry Is made, o. any new mrchne Of great III, ity i
Invented that slteutipn o. the public hos has,
,urn'd to thlt subject previously, and ;hnt man,
Ier;ons nave hesn r,aiing researches and exper
Inents. PHILOSOPHERS and nechanicans may iav
ii ssine nitasGra anticipated in their So c alton
the possibility or probability of such discovery o
lnsention riuny experiments have been successful
y tiiea coming very near yet iai!ing short ot III
nciai The Invention wEeL perfected may truly b
s-id to he the eliminating point OF many expert
men :, not on'y by the inventor, hut by maiy ott
U-ll
cess.al experiments and failures of Others. Int
gives the N no right TO cla share of the honor c
tie profit OF tue successful inventor II il whe
speculation has been reduced to practice when es
pertinent IN. resulted in discovery and Wien tina
discovery has been perfected by patient end contir
Ved experiments when some new corponri ar
Maneh.ctuIe, or nl.ciine hes been thu, produce
Which is useful to public that the party making
bee0mes apubic benetactor and entitled ta a la, en-
land yet when genius and patient perseverance
have at length succeeded, in spite of =n.ers an
SCOTS, some valuasls invention or disco-ery, no
seldom is il followed by reward Envy robs hi
Of the honor, "hiic Spectators, swindles s, and y
rates rob him OF the profits. Every unsuccess
experimenter who did or did or Gid not come vel
near making discovery now claims it. Every Ol
who can invent an Improvement or vary its forr
claims right to pirate the original discovery.
need not summons Morse, or Blanchard, or Woo
worth prove that this is the usual history Of CIV
~ great discovery or invention.
'.Ihc present case aGds another chapter to I'll
long and uniform hstory."-2 Wallace, G. q. h
pSIts p s09.