The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-07-23
TORPEDOES.
TEE ROBERTS,
PETROLEUM TORPEDO GO.
Crfice ut siic
RED EsElN!NG EsELL.
lICorEer OF Pine ard second streets,
EtNcar ti,e Eca;;roAJ
ITUSVILLE, PA.

Owing to .he largc anl rcrcasiu. demand for the
''pher-' T0rpei'es. and the lais decision OF the
Commissioned of Pate1ts in rc'o-iug 30 VIM. Reed
patent o1d the dtcsi n OF jiEnc :. Z l'ler sns
tIiniug the tnhert-' p,tcu' they have Low EI.ED
The price OF thci. To:pedo's
TWENTY PAR CINT.
40 that every Operate can aaori ,o try q -orrcdo
before abandouiug u Well.
Ihe 70 lowing il the decision rordCrcd H. judge
: ritr the tVrcnty-seconr ~ day of Sertemhar
i,,iia. The case vas arnucd three da,s b. Gs.rles
- Keller of New Norl. Is =. lirls md = A. tnr-
Vance Of Pittsburgh, for dctrdan's, and Ceorgci
iaiding Of Phi a!elplua, and George II. lh.isiy o
Pittsburgh, for plaintiff.
OpINIoNtoF JUDGE GGIER
IA wriic~vith tiiEcrty can only state tire con
.'ns'cns ~ which my mind has cope after car.iu
examination o. this case.
tlir com ilanant has exhibited u u0tert iatfG
.jth Of April. 1875. This is prma irir reyiderca OF
It good title, md puts on the respondents the bar.
den of nr9'f tnat tie patent IS void wo-rltss.
rear ": Day t2 WALL c. c. ReI; .2g) bat now
adopt them as alordine rule ol decision vi ieh ap.
,,ie- clearly to the present case.
As the Infringement of the patent il n lnil s'
the only question will be as 10 the ya.ilty OF COM.
l,lainan's IAtent OF April 81. 1855.
at was after speculation. had been reduced to
pfacficc AMI after repeated experiments that the
complainant succeeded in uyercoming he ureiuiice
and Ignorance of the people on tie subject, and
prrsanding the public that his Invention MI
ai,f when his genius and patient perseverance, in
.,ite OF sncer- and scoils,'' were Completely sue.
ccssGl, that iced, WHO had neiore made expert
nents on the s,me subclt. Nud Unsuccessful,
imagined that he had TIE bost Iiht tue inyccii.n
and alter purchasing one ot nplainant'sipr
ne,loe- he applied on the l-t OF Nov, iuber, Is6;
fir patent for substantially the sane cOnhina
ions of devices and machine contained. in complain
ant's patent. On the 18th OF The same month tA
lespondeni- 'ormed themselves into II company N
corporation called ''The Reed Torpedo Coilptrv =
70; the porpose of prating the complanau.'s in
Ncntion, aud supportins the expense of litigation,
ard thus deftaud him of the ir'ir' They nave pc,
.yered, even after the preliminary Injunction very
s'roperly ganted by the district Judge
Let d.rree be entered for con plainart gor per.
letual injunction. ard Mfstcr appointed 10 take
IN accoun, ACCORDING - the urayer tpe bill
Il. &. G..I I.a, JJlg..
Nor1.-The passage referred "a b Judge Crler Il
his former decision. ) Wallace, p. 10 adopted d.
applicable to this case was - follows:
"1t is usually the case when any valuable Gi,c,v
cry is made, OF any new mactine Of great nj ty t.
invented, that toe attention Of the pGlLc La. hei
turned to that subject prsvluusly and tlat mani
persons have been making researches aud eX;,.ri
Ineuis. philosophers aud n.cchancians may nu,
sane measure anticipated In their SD ,ula.ior.
II. possibility or prOhah!iH g Of sgsh discovery obi
invention; many experiments have btel successful.
e med, coming very near yot .ue short o. III,
sired result. They haTu pg,IfUct nothing hem.
Il hal. Yhe iavrl,ilnl wien perfected may :rIlv b,
ii TO be tho eliminating pJ.lt O.! many .v1art
lcn =, not on'y by tine inventor hlt hv many am
He lnaY hlN, pros'e1 iH.ircc ly lv the rns,,
,"'s'ul experiments and f,i,u-es Of n,hars, bue 4
gives them no right to c.Gn share o. the hrDor O
= profit Of the successful inventor IL is WAc,
HHenation l1s 0ren r dncsd to Practice when eX
lrriuclt - resulted in discovery and ,yheu Il a
toecty ns tecn perfected l,v ratenj. au. onntin
ned cXperu cats Wien some ile,Y cuIlUuund AIT
~ muf'c;u e. inc has been 'll,is ,rodrc q,
hich J. Esefui 20 theprAic that Il rarty !ial:;r
unmca apuhlc ben ilctar md emit ed 10 a patent
'Aud Yet when genius und paii, ~ prrseyeran.
aye ut lcnct,! -ncr' ed..l. IN sti,o Of .n,ees an
Gods. sIine valuable Invention rr Ci.co' e.v no,
'lIom i il followed 10y reward Envy lG,s iIit
- the hOnOr, Y liie speCultors, swind.efs and 10
.'t-s rob him OF tie p.Ufil-. 1lve.y unsucce, 5
tlerfn,tnIer who DID ar did or did nct come ", .
ar inal>i,is discovery now claiinS IT, kytrv o.
WHO car invent an Improvement vary is trh
snS i.-'ii Ia pirate the ORIGINAL Lisaovcqv u
md no; summons morse. blanchard or Woo
nurth prove tlai This i the usual hstor,, OF az
itfat discoyrrv invol.tiol
The present case adds auothor chapter TO IL.
l'ns und HnfJrm history allace, g. {. i
Ports p. 80.