The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-05-11
RovEHvs' PETROLEUM TORPEDO.
TORPEDOES.
THE ROBERTS
PETROLEUM T1HpED0 CO.
Office at the
RED pLANING MI L L =
Corner of Pine and second streets,
(Noar the EntirOad,)
TITUSvILLE, PA.

r,r,,e IN tbe larae aud increasing demand for the
Roberts J'crpedoe.. and The late decision OF the
Commissioner Of Patents In refusing to VIM. Resd
patsnt and the decision OF Judge X. T. Glter slls-
fnining the Roberts patent they nave LOW EkED
the price of their Toipeioos
TWENTY PER CENT.
80 That every Operator can afford 10 try Torpedo
before absndoping = Veil
The following Il the decision rendered by Judge
Crer the twerty-second(22l day OF September,
1854 in lhe U.i,ed States Circuit Court a Phlncel.
phii The casc was argued three days by Charles
n. Keller Of New York, b y Lucas and 5; A: Pur-,
viance Of Pittsburgh, for defendants, and George
Ba din Of Philadelphia, and George II. Chrisiy,
P,,sbu III, for p'ainth.
OPINION, of JUDGE GRIER.
As write with difficulty can only state the con
clusions 10 which my mind has come after q careful
examination Of this Case.
IAe com,lIainant has ezhibitefra patent dated
2Jh Of Ap.i. 1860 This is prima iacie evidence OF
good title, and puts 90 the respondents the Dur
den Of proc that ihe patent is void or woi.niess
Deed not repeat uiyiemarks in The case Of Good
year v Day u Wall, C. &. Eor ..g) hut no"
adopt them as siordng rue OF decision which ap-
pics clearly 10 the present case.
As the infringement of the patent IS admit TED,
the only question viii be as 10 the validity of COM
plainan,s patent Of april y, ISIS.
At was after speculation had been reduced to
practice 9ud atiec repeated experiments, that the
coup aipsHt succeeded IN overcoming he prejudice
aud ignorance of tne people on the subject, and
persuadinl the piaic that his invention use nj:
and 'whel lIa ger u. and patient perseverance, in
spite oil -i!uers and scof-,r were completely sue.
ces-ial tLat Reed, WHO had before made expert
inents on the same subje:t and unsuccessful,
i'm ciIei tIat he had the Dest to tie invention,
aud Alter purchasing one OF more Conpainauts tor
poIOes he applied on the ist of November, 1851,
for patent !Or substantially Tho same conhina
tions of devicesand .achinn contained in complain
aut's patent On the 10TH Ot the same month the
respondents formed themselves into company or
c0rpor.tion called .Tlie Reed Torpedo Company
nnZA M sfff Eln ~ m Ntnnn in
verti3a. and supporting tho expense OF litigation,
snd thu. deiiaul hin OF the ir,iit.. They have PEI;
severed even after tine pre- iminary injunction very
pr0periy granteC by tho District Judge.
Let decreebc entered for complainant for per-
petre. H. iuaction, and Muster appointed 10 lake
an sccount according to the prayer Of the bill.
Il. q. GRlER, Judge.
NorE.-The passage referred to bv Judge Grier in
his inrmer dccs'on, Wallace, p. 299 adopted as
applicibfe to this case was as follows:
''it is usually the case, when any valuable di,cov-
cry Ia made or any new machine of great ity Is
invented, tat inca ten.lon of the public has been
iurnea to that subject previously, and that many
persOas nave born making researches and experi-
meas. Philosophers ana nechanicans may nave
il some M asnie anticipated in tneif SD cuations
the Possibility or piooabilty Of sreh discovery or
invention; many experiments have been successful
" uied, coming very hear. yet falling shot oil the
desired result. They have produced nothing bene-
Zeal The invention whec perfected may uuly be
said to be the eliminating point OF many expert
ors lie may have profiteh indirectly by The unsuc
ess5iGi experiments and failures Of others. but II
gives leI no right TO cam share OF the hc nor of
'de pron of tie successful inventor 1t is when
speculation has been rcduo d 10 practice when ex
t inert Ia resrted In discovery and when that
III covery hH- been perfected by patient contin
ned experiments, when new compound. art,
manufacture, or machine has been thus produced
VliIi ustu % the public that the party making Il
tepmes public ben factor and entitled To palent
Aud ytt When genius ard patient perseverance,
have al iength succecded, in spite of snters and
fcois. some ynlurbe invention or Gisco'e.y, how
seldom is i; followed by reward Envy Iobs him
OF the Lhncr " hiIe Spectators, swnde.s, and pi-
rates ioo him OF the profits Every nusuccessul
e,1ierir enter who did or did did not come very
near making discovery claims il. Every one
%no can iGyent an Improvement Or vary its FORM
c'unls right to pirate he original discovery. We
ntet not summons Morse, or blanchard or Wood
worm to prove tia, this Is the usual History of eve
~ great discovery or invention.
"1he p,esent case adds ano,her chapter to this
long and uniform history.n-2 Wallace, c. q. fe-
ports p. s92.