The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-07-30
ROBERTS PETROLEUM TORPEDO.
TORPEDOES
THE RoBERTs
PETRt&uM TORPEDO co. (
~ sOffice at Che
RED PLAkIN MILL.
Corner OF Pine and SccoAG Streets,
p wear tho HaiiroadJ
81, WUSVILLH. Pa.

s., TUSv1LL1, Pa.
Owing 70 the large and Increasing demand for the
lhbfts' Torpedoes, andthe late decision Of tbo
commissioners Of PStents In refusing to VIM Reed
t1Sainy tho Robsrss' patent they have LOW ERE n
the pnice Of their Torpedoes
TWENTY PER CENT.
- that cvnrv Operator can.anoru IT. try n To-ned,
Deiore abandoning Well.
roe following is the decision rendered bv .ypd,o
SIsr on the twenty-second (.2) dav of ser,srhes
& s IN me the United States Circuit Court at PhiladeI.
Fhm: The ease was argued thee DAYS by Cbar,os
y Keller Of New York, b. T. Lncas and s"Is, pnr ,cs
vance OF pitshurgh, for defendants, and Caor1n, VI
psh. pISsuh,n. or rmadelphia, and George H. Chrisiv
oPINloN:oF JUDGE GRIER.l
A. write 9TH di,fcultyI can on,v s..,.
ssHsions to whichrnS mind has core ora S..e G con
examination of this case '''ei /" care'li
OH c9mniansnt !;, has exhibited patent dated
INn OF aprii, 1850 This is priina f,c eyidenca ~
good title, and puts the respondents ,h @ OF
zen OF proof that the patent is void or worthless
year w. p"v pWs my the Good
adopt them as ailording rule of deciior ~; DOW
Ples clearly TO the present case " ''i'" up
4, ~ tne infringement of the patent I, admitted,
we only question will be rs to the yalidtv of o
platnanfs patent of April 25, 1855. S oi CON-
rr.d.,u w"s ai.tI speculation had been reduced IN
prac.ice anu after repeated experiments, that the m
and nf te in overcoming he prejudice
psrsuaoing the public that his invention Va os Gnu
aNer he had established its great utity and vsi,u
ne cr sncers sens zen and patient perseverance, in
'ss.sfnl, That Reed, who had before ,rsdo u; suG
,a.id WI .he sun" subject, and was unsuccessful
ana ."at ne nad the best light to theinvcnton
Iedoes, ne applied on the lst of NOyembar Istsr
lcr patent Tor substantially the snmn coh;' 49,
ont,s "stae, M nce3 ana acin" contained in complain
III. hnet
respondents formed themselves into a cnn,n,n '.u m
corporation called "The Reed Torpedo Con,msS, - !.
re,aup 70, ts p,posH a,S OF riratns the compa nans in
Ana mus deirand hin, Of the fruits They bava NO.
severed, even rtcr the pre- imipry Injunction very
F'Ipfs'y gned aa "a by the Dis,dct Jldee. ''''
ps'uai ,nlunction. and Master apnointad ~ ,.io
~ aceo30t according to the ,raser or the I;,I
r. G. GRIER, Judge
The passage eeferred to BY Judge Grier in
MsEsf,ler decision. 3 Wallace. y. 2s9 a,ionted az
appHeebte to this ease was as follows:
~rv !. modo tic case when any valuable discov.
Hseh,ed, mat the attention of the public ha, bsen
,uu.'1 @ " lnat stSyeet previously and that MANY
ents i1n'G nesn making researches and expert
IneINs. Fh'lcs'phers and mechancians NAV have
ssome measure anticipated in their sDecu'ations
.he possibility or probability of such discovery or
mvsnMon; many experiments have been successful.
~ y Lie9, coming very near. yet falling short OF III.
Gc.ired result They have produced no,hinr bend
ncial The invention when perfected,may truty
s.ld 10 be the eliminating point of,manv ex5eri
men 8 not only by the inventor hut BY many oth
orr ne may have prodted indirectly Nv the fnsl,c
ce4s'ul experimenfsaIM failures OF Others. bnt /,
give. thom no right to claim share Of the he nor Of
.ne p1on, OF me successful nventoe 1t il when
p:rlment fa' resulted in discovery and when that
a.,c"very mas been perfected by patient ana contin
meN experiments, when some new Compound. art,
ma'nnfactlhe: or maehine has Tten thus produced
Whicn !, nseinlto public rat the party nakngit
seumes arubIic bonefactor a,ken titled to patent,
AND yet when genius and 1tnt perseverance
nave az length succeeded, inis1io of snters and
, se1hs, some 2. valuable inventiMi1r discovery, how
seldom is il followed by rewar,sa Envy robs him
o, o ire honor, while specuators, ewindlers and nj.
sases ROB MIN Of the profits. Every unsuccessful
experlmenter who did or did or did not come yery
nrnr making discovery now claims it, Everv ons
M Wm can Invent an Improvement or vary its form,
caim' right to rirae the original discovery. We
hHu not summons Morse, or B!anchard, or Wood
worth to nrye that this Is the usual history of eve
~ gr.at discovery or invention. ~ " wv
r," ane present case ADDS another chapter to this
nng and uniform history'-2 Wallace, c. &. Re
PosAs 2. 29a. " -''