The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-05-12
ROBERTS PETROLEUM TORPEDO.
TORPEDOES.
THE ROBERTS
pETE1LUu.I TORPEDO co.
Office AS taae
RED PLAxING MILL,
Corner OF Pine and second Streets
{Nsar the RaiirOad,)
TITUsVILLE, PA.

A--
OWING to the large and increasing demand for th'
Roberts Tcrpedces. and the le'c dccision of tht
Commissions Of Patents in refusing to VIM. Reet
pa.enf a1d the decision Of Jud-c Il. U Glter sns
tainir.. ihe i,ubcr;s' patcat they nave LOWEkEI
the price Of their Torpeeoes
Twenty FER CENT.
80 that every Operate car afford try a Torpedo
before sbandoning Will.
The folio, ,yiie IA the dee sion rendered by Judge
Crier Oh :! .wentysecond (a!) day of SeOtember
1879, in IT. United States Crcut Court at Phladel
A. Keller Of N'v York, 2 4. Lucas and s. A. Pur-
viance Of Pittsburgh, ior defendants, and George
Hardin O. P.i,adclphia, and George II sChTi.iy, o
fitfsourgh, for plaintiff.
OrINlONsOT JUDGE GRIER.
AsIwrite With diGcnty can only state the con
c.u u,ioas 40 whica my mind Las come after careful.
sxaiuin.. non OF this Case.
Thc complainant has exhibited patent dated
25th Of Ae.i 1855. This i. prna icie evidence OF
good TIE, snd puts on the respondents The bur
den of proof that the patent ia void or worthless.
reed not rcpeai nay sn,.ri in the case of Good
year W. Day q Wll, Z. Z. l.er; 2.9) but nov
adopt then is aii, lin; rule Ol decision which ap-
p'iea ccayly 70 t1e present case
As tho infringement. of INC patent Is admi, ted,
the only question " 90 rs to Tie validity Of COM
p.aGan's patea; Of April !j, 1858
''it was after speculation Asd been reduced to
practise AID al ec iepeated experiments, that the
complainant succeeded in ovc,vOmn. he prejudice
ara Ignorauc /, of the people on the subject, and
ycracadi'g fhe plli'c thai his invention was useful;
after lie had estlJi sned its g. eat utility and value,
and when MS genius cid patient perseverance, in
cessful, that R9ed, who ha0 ee!0rc made expert
inonis on the sanie a;hicct end wes ssf,l,
imagi1ed tat he hld the best ht to tie invention,
a.d atter purchasing one or more Conplainant's tor
pedoe', he applie1 On the lst of November, 1867,
for patent for substantially the same Combina
tiUns of devices AID achiuc contained in complain
ants z .fcut On the 18th of the same month the
respondents formed themselves into company or
Co pora,iOn called .''rhe Reed Torpedo Company"
fo- tas purpose ot pirating the complaina,t's in
veGt:oiI, ami s,ppcltng tie expense Of litigation,
and tai, deaud him Of the fruits. They have PEI.
Severed esen sitter the preliminary Injunction very
properly gr"ntal b. tho District Judge.
petlpl nj melton, ald Master appointed to take
Al account according to the prayer Of the bill.
,NorE-Ths passage referred to by Judge Grier in
his former decision, Wallace, P. :s9. adopted As
1T is usually the case, whoa any valuable dlscov
cry is Slade, or any new machine Of great u,iity il
1nt ntcd that Toe attention Of the public has been
turned to that subject previously, and that many
porsora ave been making Researches and expert
IN sou,e m:a',;-e anticipated in ,neir sp.cUatiOns
the possibility or prob ability Of such discovery or
iinventicr; many experiments have bren successful
ly led, counting very sar. yet isng short OF tho
!esil d result They haze produced nolhing bene-
frai The Invention ' hen perfected may truly ;,e
Said t. Oe the culmir 'ng point OF many expeli
Ah9-F ipt D'4f tlINcutO., LUV ny lDaOy ON.
Ora .ie may nave profted Indirectly by the iinsuc.
cessfI! expenments md fai'ures of Others. but IL
gives them right to ca IN share OF the hCnOr of
tie profit Of the succcssia! inventor II is when |
specl alton has been reuucsd TO practice. when ex
pertinent has resulted in discovery. and when that
ciscoVery has been perfected by patient ana conin |
red e-,' atiIents, When some :nc'v compound. art
manuiac Ere, or machine has been thus produced |
which ia usefui to tbep hc, that the party nakingit
becomes apublic beneiaclor and entit ed to patent
"Aud yeI VIXEN gem as aud patient perseverance,
have at length succeeded, in spite of snecrs sand
fcofs, come valuable invention or Gisco-ery, how
seldom is i. followed by reward Envy robs him
OF the honor, white speculaors, swindets, and pi-
fnIss rob him Of The profits Every unauccessiul |
experincn;er VINO did or dld or did not come very
nea' nai:ih, discover a0w claims it. Every ons
VINO can invent AZ Improvement or vary its form,
claims right to pirate the original discovery We
need not sun mons Morse or Blanchard, or Wood
worth 70 prove that this is the usual history of eve
~ great discovery OF invention
"Ihc pres L.t case aods another chapter to this
ports p, e92.