The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-08-13

50, ROBERTS PETROLEUM TORPEDO.
TORPEDOES.
THE ROBERTS
PETROLEUM TORPEDO co.
Office at the
RDD PLANING MILL.
CO1oer ef Pine and second Streets,
SNoar the RatbrOad,)
ITUSvILLE, PA.
owAsto she hrse and Increasing demand for the
RoeUe f0rrsdoes, and the late decision of the
Somaop| Of Patents in refusing 10 VIM. Reed
asPant; SI ne .dscsim Of JudSc r. Z Grier sn $.
the U3o q their Nrpedoes
rwENrY. PER CENT.
% TINT every opear ean atSora w-ry a rprpedo
befsre Abandoning Wei
The olhowmg Il the decsion rendered by Jube
c%f% On NE twenty peoond C22) day of sentember
lS n Tie United States Circuit Court at PhiiadeI.
NJ ksllG Sf Ecw Work, B. r. Lucas and s. A. Pur.
Mancs W Htisbrfgh, for defendants, and GeorSr,
pnta,sSng q PnEdelphia, and George q. Christy,
U1NoNDF JUDGE GMER
,,lI AZ wss wtsh @n'cufty can only state the con
examination rf this tnxR "
o, The cmnia.nan i @ hss exhibited a pa.cn. dated
good title, and puts on the respondents the bnr ~
der Of proof thsi t'e patent is void or worthless
l. need pa repeat my remarks in the case Of Good
sSopt ~ sh.,n my y q .ss MM: C. G. Rsr Ha) hut now
plies ctsakiy " the present c4se. '
~ Az me infringement of the patent Is admit ted,
s,Oya sns only Question yin b. as 70 the validity Of com
ut wss aner speculation had bcen rc1uced m
practice, and sster repeated experiments thai tbo
complainant SUGGESTED in overcoming he prejudice
anu 1gnOGice Uf the people op thc suhiect nm,
perslarlig the public that his invention wa sc,,l
after be bod established its great utility and ynlue
ana WHEN ms gen'us and patient perseverance, in
cessful, tht Reed, who had befnre made exnnri
ments on the same srlhiect and was nnsncrnspf,i
IMAGINED that he had the hest right tile Invention
nninos b n,nlisd one OF more complainant tor
tlr patent for Substantially the same conbina
Huns OF oev1oet and uarhiuo contained in cnmnlair
',n.;s{,.ent IN ~" 15th OF the same month the
IespNlucn's frlned Themselves into cumn,nv or
cofiofatidn called Tho Reed Tor1edo Conpany."
Ior tne purpose OF piratfng the cnmD,ainnni,s IL,
and tbns " spSins bi,, =, the expense of litigation
severed even st.r the preliminary in;unc,ion yrrv
property gtsnted by the District Judve wy
a atcree ne entered for complainant for per.
pefnai 'nlnnctfon. ami Master arpnn,sd IN fake
AL account snHoNaii's ~ the prayer Of the hill
X. C. GkIEK, Judge.
NorE-Tiic passage referred to ny judge t;rcr IN
ms inrmr decision. Wallace, H. 2og ad,nted ~ ~
SppScabbe to'lhis ease WAS follows: "
u Is Usually the case, when any valuable dj.cov
'r! Is male, or any new machine Of great I,ility il
Invented that the attention of the n,ihlic Ia. e.
turned to that subject previously, and that many
persons have been making researches ard cxnerI
inenfs Philosophers and mechanicnns NAV hav,
Ih some measure anticipated in their sp cIiotIons
thc possibility or probability Of such discovery or
i,nV.ntion; many experiments havc beer succcssGul
y Hisd, coming Tsry near. yet falling short OF the
cial Ths Isa, nGcy nave nave oced nothing bcne
said to he tho dominating point of MANY ex13or;
men s, not only by the inventor, but by many 9th.
"as: re may hnv. llolltcd indirectly bv the i,nsuc
cessfu experiments md failures of other. brft i,
gives them no right to claim share of the honor of
tle proiit Of the successful inventor II is when
Rua,ion has been reduced to practice, when ey.
G cr h,. hs, rtsn.eu I In ~ discovery and when that
Epermcnts, when some new compound. ort
cure; % or mnchine ha. been Thu. produced
nse,nl 10 @ tne public that the party making ii
yet wfen gelilu5 and patient perseverance,
lcigth succeeded, In spite Of sneers and
some valuable invention. or dsco"ery, how
n Is II followed by reward Envy robs him
re honor, white Spectators, swindleys and nj.
iNes rob him OF the profits. Every upsuccessiul
e4EEr1mnfer who did or did or did not come vory
,w mss1 mafinS discnvery now claims 1t. Every one
cnIins right to pirate the original discovery. We
need not summons Morse, or Blanchard. or Wood.
vor.a 70 "ve thaf this Is the usual history Of eve
inc present case adds another chapter to this
long and uniform history"-2 Wallace, G. &. Re
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