The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-09-21
ROBERTS PETROLEUM TORPEDO.

ROBERTS PETROLEUM TORPEDO.
TORPEDOES.
THE RODERTs
PETROLEUM TeRpEDo CO.
FT Office NJ the
RED PLANNING MILL,
Corner OF Pine and Second Streets,
Near she RailrOad,)
ITUsvILLE, PA.
Owing to the large and increasing demand for the
Roberto TOrpedoes, and the late decision of the
Commissioner of Patents In refusing to WIN. Reed
patent. and the decision Of Judge r. c. Grier sus.
taining the koberts' patent they have LOWERED
the price of their Torpedoes
TWENTY, PER CENT.
20 thst every Operator can afford ,v'ry Torpedo
BEFORE abandoning Well.
The following is the decision rendered by Judge
irier on the twenty. y.second (22) day of September
1, In the United States Circuit Court at Phladel.
phia. The case was argued three days by Charles
:I y; Ksils, \, 81 New York, b. Lucas and s. A. pur
Matding Of Philadelphia, and George Ii. Chrisiy, o
Pittsburgh, for plaintiff.
OPINION OF JUDGE GRIER.
A: write with difficulty can only state the con
ensions to which my mind has come after a carefu
The complainant has exhibited patent dated
10Th Of April, 1855 This is prima facie evidence of
good title, aud puts on the respondents the bur.
need not repeat my remarks in the case Of Good.
year ~ Day u Wal, C. C. ReE. 2:9,) but now
ADOPT them 40 ehording rule Of decision which ap-
CNao
A the Infringement of the patent is admit ted,
the only question will be as to the validity OF com
plainants patent Of April Is, 1855
at was aiter speculation had been rcduced to
practice and after repeated experiments, that the
complainant succeeded in overcoming he prejudice
and ignorance Of the people on the subject and
persusding the public that his invention was nseiu:
nfter he had established its great utility and value
and "when his genius and patient perseverance, in
eessful, that Reed, who had before made expert
ments IN the same subject, and was unsuccessful,
imagned that he had the best right 10 tue invention
pedoes. he applied on the 1st OF November, 1857,
for patent for substantially the same combina.
lions OF devices ann achine eontainedi in complain.
respondents formed themselves into company or
corporation called ",rhe Reed Torpedo Company
for the purpose Of pirating the complainants In.
and thus defraud him Of the fruits They have pcf
severed, even after the preliminary injunction very
properly granted BY the District Judge.
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petuai Injunction. and Master appointed to take
an account according to the prayer q the bill:
.NorE.-The passage referred to BY Judge Grier in
his former decision, 3 Wallace, p 900 adopted a.
applicable to this 1ase was as follows:
ut IL usually the ease when any valuable diecoy.
cry is made, or any new machine Of great u,iity IA
invented that the attention Of the public has 6sen
turned 20 that subject previously, and that MANY
persons have been making researches and expsri.
menfs. philosophers and mechanicians may have
IN some measure anticipated In their suecuiations
the possibility or probability of sueA discovery or
inventions many experiments have bpen successful.
desired result. They have produced nothing bene-
fcial. The invention when perfected may truly be
s>id to be the eliminating point OF many expert.
mon 8, not only by the inventor but by many 9th.
ors. lie may have proed indirectly by the iinsuc-
Cessful experiments and failures of others, but 1t
gives them right to cain share of the honor of
The profit of the successful inventor II is when
speculation has been reduced to practice, when ex.
pertinent has resulted In dis .)very and when that
discovery has been perfected by patient anu c0ntin.
manufactuie. or machine has been thu. produced
which Is useful to thcpubic, that the party making IL
beOmes apublic bcnufactOr and entitled to patent
"Aud yet when genius and patient perseverance
have ut length succyeded, In spite Of sneers and
ee0as, some valuable invention or discovery, how
seldom Is IL followed by reward Envy robs him
OF the honor, while spectators, swndlers and nj.
rates rob him OF the profits Every ur,uccessftll
experimenter who did or did or did not come very
near making discovery now claims it. Every Ons
claims right to pirate the original discovery We
need not summons Morse, or blanchard, or Wood
worth to prove that this is the usual history Of eve
ry great discovery or invention.
long and uniform history."-2 Wallace, c. c. Re-
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