The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-08-02

ROBERTs' PETROLEUM. TORPEDO.
TORPEDOES.|
THE ROBERTS
PETROLEUM TORPEDO co.
Office at the
RED planning MILL.
cerAsr Of Pine snd second streets,
;Near shc RaiiroadJ
ITUsvILLE, PA.
Owing 10 tho large and increasing demand for the
HDbers' TOrpedoes, and the late decision of the
patent. md the decision Of judge r. e. Grier srs.
tatnfng the Roberts' patent they have LOWERED
the price Of their Torpedoes
TWENTY PER CENT.
% that every Operator can afford NJ try a Torpedo
before abandoning Well.
The following is the decision rendered bv Jpdge
s,er Ss 10 Or ,ts inc @ day Of sepember
Pn'a, The case was argued three days by Charle.
n Keller Of New York, b. Y. Lucas and :. 4 Prr
n.uc 81 Of for and Geoscf
f1usbsrgh, for plaintiff.
OPINlONlOF JUDGE GRIER.
As write with difficulty ean only .tats y co,,
s,us,Sns 70 which my mind has come after careiu
<h Of April, 1865. This Is prma facie cyidencs utT f
good title, and puts on the respondents ,h Oh
den o. proof that the patent Is void or worthless.
need not repeat my remarks in the case of Good.
year " Day Wall, C. C. Rep; 2s1 bnt ", "Uou, poar
adopt them as afordinS rule OF decision Which on.
plies clearly TO the present csse. '" "p'
the ony aues,ss nasTen i1 ,o OF the patent j. admit
p'ainanfs patent Of April q, 1855 VI |o"A
t, ~. vs. after speculation had been reduced tn
complainant succeeded in overcpminc he nrndn at ane
auo Ignorance OF the people on the subject. AMI
psrsusdng the public that his invention was nseinl:
.n6 ne mao established its great utility and value
spite o. sncers and scof., " were romnlctai , III
sessmt, that Reed, who had before nade experi.
imarinmi ths, sse h & &saaect and was unsuccessful
anc aNer purchasing one OF more CompIainnntis tnr
pedoes, ne applied on the lst OF November. ist1.
uns ~ dev,c. ,or SUBSTANTIALLY the same combina
anrs patent. On the 18th Of the came month the
e.. .%rn'ut.n.s Iosmeo Themselves into company or
for s paapSse SsSg Sf nl,n Reed a. Torpedo
sention, and snppnrtiny the expense OF litigation.
..u = .n,s aeIraud him of the fruits. They have ne:
s"n'ess esch ftcr tne preliminary Injunction very
properly granted by the District Judge.
Let d cree he entered for Complainant f,r ,or
p nai Injunction. and a Master appointed 70 tnke
IN account according to the nraver of the bill.
H. e. GRIER, Judge.
Nok-The passage referred to bv Judge Grier IN
nnni, as 1Hs%:. decl;.on, Wallace. P 100 stopped as
"pp,!c1U'e 70 tnis case was as follows:
II Is ilsually the case when any valuable di.cov.
.s - ssue "a any new machine Of great mi ity il
,rn, o. ,hst she sltention Of the public has be-
as ps.so,s nave be,n making researches and expert
IN some nleasure anticipated in their sprcIiiati"s
the possibility or probability Of sueh discovery or
i; IN 'asS mnny experiments have been successful.
direi ,ssml, sSl;ng Very near yet falling short OF the
ncisi Inc invention wheu perfected may truly he
e.la 70 De the eliminating point of many exDcri
nrs nsn IN no. ony ny the inventor but by many 9TH
cessful experiments and failures of o,hcr. Int i,
gives them no right to claim share Of the bc nor nr
.ne p,ont OF the successful inventor 1t il when
np,i%snt hsn nas "sen reduced to practice when ex.
discovery has been perfected by patient ana contin
ned experiments, when some new comnonnd art
s;nh MsnI'actrs !; 9r machine has been thus produced
ra'ncs 70 tne public that the party making
,Aua yet when genius and patient perseverance,
haSe NJ length succeedcd, in spite of sncers and
,,s ssDH some mluable invention or discovery, how
~ the honor, while spoculatOrs, swindcrs and nj.
ratss rob him Of the profits Every un,nccpss sfinl
exl'erimcnier who did or did or did not CONC very
% ntar m,asinx discovery now claims it. Every one
~no o'h invent m Improvement or vary its form
claims right TO pirate tho original discoycry We
need not eummons Morse, or blanchard. or Wood
worth to prove that this Is the usual history of eve
~ grrnt discovery or Invention.
1.-THE present case ADDS another cbaptcr tn iii,
hng and uniform hislory."-.2 Wallace. C. G. Re
ports p 9o2