The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-08-08
.sROBERTS' PETROLEUM TORPEDO.
TORPEDOES.
THE ROBERTS
PETROLEUM TORPEDO Co.
Office at the
RED planning MILL.
Csrner OF Pine and Second Streets.
Near the EsatiroadJ
ITrISTfTYr pA

4IuSVILLE, PA.
Owine n the large and increasingNenand for ,,o
Roberts Trpedoes, and the s;e dec;snn -, ~ Nv Nv
Comm-sioner Of Patents IN ren,sin,, 10 Wm pand nd
taS; Gaent f. and the decision Of Judge II. Grer sns
the sE;eo .'e 81 tSparts patent they have LOWERED
TWENTY. PER CENT.
Oe1ore abandoning Well. Ao'peoo
The following is the d,cis,o, ro,,,,
vraer Sso on the twentysecond (22) dav os "udge
r 10 me United States Circuit Court at ph!in5ee,
M K.y.r oe ese w was argued three days by Cbarles
yanes OF Pittsburgh for defendants. % ma = a. Fur
Metuing OF Philadelphia and Georre IT ',S G;eorgei
f1tssburgh, for plaintiff 4" 'hfls'y,
oPINIoNsoF JUDGE GRIER
ens,o wrte with difficulty can only state Tho NJ.
examination of III. S n,hd hss come after care,,,
SSH Of roSmianan Snr nan hns exhibited paten, dated
vnod ,iin aSoo This Is prima face eydenca ~
SsS ~ nrn ana pnts on the respondents the bnr
prou t.lat the patent is void or worthIo.u uur
need not repeat my remarks IN the co sa VI
ysar vs.; Day q Wall, C. C. Rep; 2soa hr, "r 1ood:
pncs clearly TO the present case. WHICH up
As the infringement OF the nato,+ .,
she only question will be as to the val,d;,, ADMITTED
piainaits patent OF April Is, ISIS ui'y oi CON-
~ was after speculation had hoo, u,
and after repeated experiments thse 20
So,'Planant succeeded in overc1mjno.hs,' ..at she
per.aaans the puhP 11f people on the subject and
M,sr ne mad established its great ut a,'S was uselu
,t W Mneh nls genius and patient perSevara ,us,
eessf ~ inc a5Sri land ana scof were Completely snc n,
reosu, ,a,a.a III Feed, who had before maS ; sui
mehts on thesame Subject and wos ",nue ,.. expert
d tnat he had the best right TO the
nedoes he annsd one or more conpainant's tor
e. r.t ne appied on the 1st of Noyemhas iss5
1T. ~ patent for substantially tho son,a isoi,
an,,s n,. ", ana machine Contained in commni
iesnopdents ,,n un the 10Th of the same month the
corporation called "nhe Reed Tn,,,.ei eoC,hpany OF
yeptiop thv purpose OF pirating the cpmna;nani,s
and thus dh dersm9gp s9pbTtn the expense Of litigation
severed even aer the U1 nrs ss ifns They have PEI
property granted by the District ,tdSe. d."''on very
petna nuncticu e,,ered e Tor complainant for per.
an account accor;ai aaa Master appointed to take
4. :. GRiER, iii ' Judge.
his forn,r passage referred to by Judge rier in
cses 70 to thi. case as follows: ''op'eo as
~ ls Usually the case. when any volpos,o A.,,
insene that ,he Sey hs machine Of great ny is
na" ~ mat subject previously and that n,m
persons nave been making resedrchcs AMI oy ns,yy
IN soms aUsopners aud mechanicians NAV have
e ptossoty or probability Of such dscovrrv nr
teilioni many experiments have beer sncca:rn, ~
desired RESULT hoyv Tsry near yet falling short Of the
fcal The invention when perfected nav irnI So
sam 70 pei De the eliminating point of MANY exp1eri
m, mon 9, not ony by the inventor, but by many 9th.
ors- ie may have pr0flted indirectly by the i,nsuc
csasiu experiments and failures of others, Int II
Ewes XIV mem no right to claim share of the honor of
we proiit or the successful inventor IL IA when
speculation has been reduced to practice when ex.
!sa,ment las resulted IN discovery, and when that
oa-covery has been perfected by patient ana contin
ned experiments, when some new compound, art.
man.niactnre: or machine has been thus produced
which Is usefnl to thepublic that the party nnno
becomes apublic bcncfactor and entitled to pa.ent
"Aud yet when genius and patient perseverance,
nave at length succeeded, in spite of an, era and
scotis some valuable invention OR disco-ery. low
seldom Is II followed by reward Envy rob, him
OF the honor, whiie speculators swndle,s. and nj
rates rob him Of the profits Every unsuccessful
eAperlmenter who did or did or did Iiot come yery
near making n discovery now claims it. Every one
VINO can invent an Improvement or vary its form.
claims right to pirate tho original discovery We
need not summons Morse, or Blanchard or Wood
worth to prove that this is the usual history of eve
~ great discovery or Invention. "
"1'hc present case aads another chapter to this
ports p. a9a " A'