The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-09-30
,BgRTS PETROLEUM TORPEDO.


HORP EDOES.
n ROBAnrs
.Hfh9yuM fgRpEno 90.
office az the
RED PLANING MILL.
corner or Pine and Second Streets,
Near the lRatirOad,)
IrUsvILLE, PA.
Owing ~ the large and increasing demand for the
Roberts TOrpeioes, and the late decision of the
Commissioner Of Patents in refusing to VIM. Reed
patent and the decision of Judge r. &. Giier sus
calming tho Roberts patent they have LOWERED
the price Of their Torpedoes
TWENTY, PER CENT.
20 .hst every Operator can afford ,o.try Torpedo
Before abandoning Well.
The following is the decision rendered by Judge
Grter on the twenty. second (22) day of September
lSo9 In the United States Circuit Court at Phiiadci
phia. The case was argued three days by Charles
u. Keller Of New York, y. f. Lucas and s. A. Pur.
yiAncs Of Pittsburgh, for defendants, and Georcef
Harding OF Philadelphia, and George H. Christy' o
Fttsburgh for plaintiff
OPINION OF JUDGE GRIER.
A write with difficulty can only state the co,
Sausions to which my mind has come after a caref,
examination Of this case
The complainant hss exhibited a patent dated
10Th Of April, 1855. This is prima ace evidence of
good title and puts on the respondents the hur
den OF proof that the patent is void or worthless
lncei not not repeat rel my remarks in the case of Good
year Ts Day u Wall, G. C. Rep; 229,) but now
adopt them Ms stording a rule OF decision which an
plies cleatly to tnc present csse.
M As ss the nngsmens s;' Of the patent /. admit ted
p!anants iltent Of April 25, 1853
III was AFTER speculation had been reduced to
practice" aad after repeated experiments that the
complainant succeeded in overcoming he prejudice
and igLorancc OF the people on tho subject and
Persuadiag the public that his invention was usefrl
after ne had established its great utility and value
spite Of sncers and scors," were completeiv snc
cessfal, that Reed, who had before made eyperi
ments on the same subject, and was unsuccessful
hmagtued that he had the best right to the Invention
aud after purchasing one more complsnant's tor
pAtoes, he applied on the 1st ofNovember 1861
for patent FOR substantially the same combina.
tons of devices and machine Contained in conlplan
ans patent On the 18th of the same month the
re-pOr lents formed themselves into a comnany or
sorS:gat:on called The Reed Torpedo Company"
for the purpose of pirating the comp,aipapt's in
vcution, and supporting the expense of ltipati0n. .
aid TINS defraud him Of the fruits They have ner
severed even after the preliminary Injunction Very
properly granted by the District Judge
Let u dsc.ee be entered for complainant for n per
petuai injunction. and Master appointed to fake
al account according to the prayer GSie Tf b. BILL H.,
,NorE-The passage referred to by Judge Gricr in
bis former decision, Wallace, p 200, adopted as
opp .csbfe to this case wus as follows:
ut Is usually the case, when any valuable d.cov
cry ID made, or amy new machine of great uiiiy is
invented, that the attention of the public has been
turned TO that subject previously and that MANY
persons have been making researches and experi
1neltf. Philosophers and mechlnicians NAV have
IN some m easure anticipated in their spccuetions
the possibility Or probability of such discovery or
tiiad, coming very near. yet falling short of the
desired result. They have produced nothing bene.
1cial. The invention when perfected NAV fruly he
rstd to bo the eliminating point of many experi.
Rel's, not only by the inventor but by many 9th.
ofs. He may have profted Indirectly by The iInsuc.
gives them no right to claim share of the honor of
TIE proit OF the successful inventor 1t Ia when
specuation las been reduced to practice, when ey
Seriment has resulted in discovery and when that
discovery has been perfect d by patient ana contn
Uei experiments when some new comDonnd art
manufacture, or machine has been thu, produced
which l. useful to the public that the party making il
benomes spubc bonetactor and entitled to a natent
"kud yet when genius and patient perseverance,
have at length succeeded, in spite of sneers and
seeiIs some valuable invention or discovery, how
seldom il IL followed by reward Envy robs Kim
Of the honor, while specalators swindlers, and nj
rates rob him Of the profits. Every un,nccesskl
cxperimenter who did or did or did not come yery
near making discovery now claims it, Every ons
who can Invent an Improvement or vary its form
pstd not summons Morse, or Blanchard or Wood
Wtrth to prove that this IL the usual history of rye
yysgreat discovery or invention.
"rhe present case adds another chapter To tbis
lOngSud uniform history."-s Wallace, C. c. Re.
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