The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-08-18
RoBERTs' PETROLEUM TORPEDO.
KUBEKTS' PETROLEUM TORPEDO.
TORPEDOES.
THE ROBERTS
PETROLEUM TORPEDO co.
Office at the
RED FLAMING Mill.
OOrscr q Pine and Second S,ro.,s
Seaf the Rniiroaa.)
~. tsrf .-s
t ITUSVILLE, PA.

Diving e the large and Increasing demand for ,bo
ROBERTS TUrpedoes, and the late deci.inn Of NC o
hssoner Of Patents in refusing to Wm !" PM lS
patent and the decision of Judsc II. g. c,e, Sns
!aimg tho Roberts patent they have LOWEREn
the price OF thor Torpedoes 1D
,g TWENTY. PER CENY.
se,o,e ma sNsy sry Operator can afford tostty rUrpco
Ine following is the decision rendered nv ,ra,.
SHeo ~ ou ~, tne twenty,seccnd (22) day of seton%g
Isos IN the United States Circuit Conrt 3. pt,aer,
Hia Lne case was argued three DAYS bv t'hasI
yanoe % of PtsSuras SSw dor Lacos and s A. Pur
narding OF Philadelphia, and Gec,r"e II a',I Georgef
Pittsburgh, for Plaintiff ise L. Chfisty,
~ ~ OPINIoNiOF JUDGE GR1rp
As write with difficulty I can or,r s...
susl9ns 20 which my mind has come after me con
The complainant has exbib;,a
18th Of April 1866 This III primo patent dated
good title and puts on the resnonJsnt evidence of
ue8 prOot @ tst the patent Is void or fg Snr
year vs. Day WALL G. G. Rem: 'is aaS ease Of Good.
ADOPT them as aording rule OF ,,ec;s;1 a;1 6nt now
phs clearly to the present case. '''ion winch ap-
a, AZ tne infringement of the n,.o,.
tne only question will be s TO h. admit ted
piaHsas sHt patent Of April 25, 1855. oi COM
nractico ~ss a1e n' speculation had been red,coa %
complainant succeeded in that the
and ignorance Of the people on M ne prejudice
Psasuauihg the public that his invent;o, ect, ana
and awhen h,, "a Its great utility and valna
spite Of sncers and SCOTS. ward perseverance in
Tesa Ia.a .hat Heed, who had before ada sue
imsGined that se y. subject and was unsucce.ptnI
au9 Mser purchasing one or more invention,
aoes, ne applied on the LIST of NnYon,ho 9e sIor
lions Of devces aSs snd Substantially the combina
AUS patent On the 18th of the sar, IN complain
sorr..; formed themselves into co,i rU.n tne
for tSa Caned .rhe Reed Torpedo GoI,nspv "
ve1tiSn ana .ueporns tie tne sompaipanis In
severed sHa u.una hin of the fruits They have ne.
nroneriy aiter the preliminary iniuncton ysry
Let dscree ia he 1y cytas the District Judge wy
az ,nJanction and Master annnintet 'or y. per-
" account according to the prayer r ofte bill 70 'aSe
,,s H. G. GRIER, Judge.
bis former passage referred to by Judge Grier in
appIicabts ~ III tthon SWallace, p 200 adopted AS
It is SsnaiIy P,1 liza ssse .svs was Ss follows:
mat the attention of the publc %a. Sod, IL
n.1 70 mat subject previously, and that MANY
mests Ive P Seeh making researches and expert.
iienls. philosophers and mechaniciaps NAV have
~ soIne measure anticipated in their speculations
the possibility or probability Of such discovery nr
,,a many experiments have been successful.
Gleo, coming very near. yet falling short of the
Seslred result. They have produced nothing bene.
nc!al: Ihe Invention when perfected NAV triy he
@ osIu " NC tne cunilnating point of many experi.
men :, not only by the inventor, but by many 9th.
ors. he may hav. profted Indirectly BY the ilnsrc
cessui experiments and failures of Others. Int II
sses mem no right to claim share of the honor Of
Me proht or the successful inventor II ia when
semaon nsr m mas been reduced to practice when ex
discovery has been perfected by patient and contin
ned experiments, when some new compound art.
manufacture, or machine has been thus nrOduceI
Which Is useful to thepublic that the nartv main,
Deeomes public benefactor and entitled to patent
"Aua yet when genius and patient perseverance
nave at length succeeded, in spite of snrers and
ICONS some valuable invention or discovery, how
seldom Is II followed by reward Envy robs him
OF the honor, while speculators, swnders, and nj
rates ROB him Of the profits. Every unsnccessful
experimeIter who did or did or did not come very
near making discovery now claims il, Every ons
who can invent an Improvement or vary its form
Claims right to pirate the original discovery We
lnecd not summons Morse. or Blanchard or Wond
worth to prove that this is the usual history of cy
ry great discovery or invention
"The present case adds another chapter to this
long and UNIFORM history ."-2 Wallace, 6. g. Re.
ports p. 292