The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-10-20
ROBERTs' PETROEEUG TORPEDO.

TORPEDOES.
THE ROBERTe
PETROLEUM TeRPEDo 90.
Office ~ the
RED PLANNING MILL,
Caracr Of Pine and SECOND ssrecss,
Near the R0tirOad,)
TITUSv1LLE, PA.
Roberts Torpedoe,. and the late decision OF the
Commissioner Of Patents IN refusing to VIM. Reed
patent and the decision OF Judge n. Z. Grier sns
LAining the KOberts' patent they have LOWERED
the price Of their TorpedOes
TWENTY. PER CENT.
40 that every Operator can afford u try q ToDedo
before abandoning Well
The following lie the decision rendered by Judpe
0rier on the twenty second (22) day Of September
1S IN the United States Circnit Court at Philade.
Keller Ea' o New Yoae aGsd hIss scs DAY: ny Charles
Vance OF Pittsburgh, for defcndants and 1;cor,r
harding Of Philadelphia, and George H. Chrisiy, of
1fttaburgh, for plainuR
VElNlON OF JUUGk GR{ER
A: write with difficulty can only state the con
clusioRs 70 which my mind has come after a csrsfu
examination Of this c,sse
The oou,,ansnt my, has exhibited patent dated
25th Of Apral, 1855 This is prma facie evidence Of
good tt!e AUD puts On the respondents the bur-
den OF proof shat the patent is void or worthless
need not repeat my remarks in the case Of Good.
ort year tt sha,S Day - q .rd Ms & Rep x but now
plies clearly to the present case.
=. As the infringement Of the patent 10 admit ted,
sns only question VII bS g. 70 the validity Of
1T was amer speculation, had been rd1uced to
Complainant succeedea in overcoming he prejudice
persuadng the public that HE invention was usefilI
after he had established its great utility and value
% sna "wnsn NJ: gslius cnd patient perseverance, in
eessfal, that Reed, who had before made expert.
inents on the same subject, and was unsuccessful,
nagned that he had the best right to the invention
and after pUrchastng one OF more Complanauts g tor
podoee he applied on the lst Of November, 1857
toe patent for substantially tho same combiua
tions Of devices and machin: contanedin in complain
respondents formed themselves into . company or
corporation called The Reed Torpedo Company"
70. The purpose Of pisating the complain.nt's 1n.
and thus defraud him Of the fruits. They have per
severed, even sft the preliminary injunction very
properly granted BY the District Judge
Let decree be entered for complainant for 4 per.
pstual Injunction and Master appointed TO lake
au sccouat according to the prayer Of the bill
X. G. GRIER Judge
Nors.-Ihe passage referred to bv Judge f3rier in
his former decision, Wallace, p. 299 adopted as
2pp tcabie to this case was a. follows:
~ is nAually the case, when any valuable discoy.
cry Ia made, or any new machine Of great uility is
Invented, that tine attention Of the public has been
turned to that subject previously, and that many
meats. Philosophers amt meshanicans NAV have
Ii some measure anticipated In their organizations
tho possibility or probability of such discovery or
iArentioa; many experiments have been successful.
Miea. coming very near. yet falling short OF the
actal. The invention whom perfected may truly be
said 30 be the eliminating point OF MANY exneri
men I, not only by the inventor, hut by many 9th.
Crs. He may have pfofted indirectly by the i,nsuc.
oe|sful experiments and failures of ohefs, but it
gives them no right to claim share of the honor Of
The profit Of the successful inventor 1t ia when
speculation has becn reduced to practice when ex
pertinent haa fegaited In discovery and when TINT
discovery mas bean perfect by patient ana contin.
ted exper'ments, when some new compQllnd. art,
which Is usefoito the public that the party making
bseomcs apublic beuefact0r and entitled to patent
"And yet when genius and patient perseverance,
have ut length succeeded, In spi,e Of sneers and
scoffs, some valuable invei,tion or discovery, how
seldom Is Il followed by reward Envy robs him
ratss rob him Of the profits. Every unsuccessful
expsrinenter who did or did or did not come very
near making discOvery nOw.claims 1t, Every one
who can invent an Improvement u vary its form,
claims , right to pirate the original discovery We
worth to prove that this s the usual history of eve
ry great discovery or invention.
"The present case adds another chapter to this
long and sniform hlstory.'-2 Wallace, G. q. r..
ports p. 2o2