The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-09-26

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1ORPEDOES.
TIE nVBERTs
oyiaa&ySM TuapEDu CO.
rrrrm- Office at the
RED pLANING MILL,
oerher OF Pine and Second Streets.
tNcar she fsatirOadO
IrusvILLE, PA.
6N1s TOrreAnes, Aud the late decision of the
commlrsioaer VI Pateats in refusing to VIM. Reed
patent. and the decision Of Judge r. z. Gter sus
tatr!re, ~ Roberts patent they have LOWERHD
She price q their 1orpeuoeS
TWENTY. PER CENT.
so that ever Operator can afford ,o::ay a Torpedo
tefors abandoning Well.
The following is the decision rendered by Judge
eSier On the twenty eecor t22l day of September,
1S, IN the United Statee Circuit Court Phladel-
Il Keller Of New York, 3. y. Lucss and :. A. Pur.
Vance Of Pittsburgh, for defendants, and George,
Harding Of pidlafelphis, and George IL. Christy,o
Pittsburgh, fcr esintin.
NEANAON Or JUDOE GhlEH.
A. write with difficulty can only state the con
illusions to which my mind has come after csre.,i.
examination Of thie case.
The complainant hss exhibited a patent Gated
god title, and puts the respondents fhr hnr. u.
dsn o. proof TINT the patent is void =. worthless
ne not rspsat, e eat, my Y re%arks B. in case Of Good
opt them as sfIording ru. oi decs;on wbc, on
pKe clas.y 10 the preser: case. ~
As the iniLsSn,ei"s i ~ the patent Is a1rni, ted,
the on. anssTvtn wy be as to the validity Of com
"it was ai,"S speculation had been reduced to
prcttcc, Ind after repeated experiments that the
ccmpis INT succeeded in overcoming he prejudice
pe.sy,cing the public that his invention useful;
avr ho had established It's great utility and value,
. vnd "when his genius and pstien. perseverance, in
tspite OF sncera and sco:T-, werc completely sue
sesseul, that Reed, who had before made expert
lnaats on he same subject, and was unsuccessful,
inlsne t., he had he best right to the invention,
ard after purchasing one or more Complainants tor
pedosa. 10 applied on the ist Of November, 1861,
for a patent for Substantially tho same combina.
tions OF device, and arhine contained in complain
ants patent. On the 18th Of the same mouth the
Respondents 'ormed themselves into company or
corporation called THE Reed Torpedo Company u
!or tho p,rpcse Of piratins the compainani's in
veation All supporting tine expense Of litigation,
acd TINS .efrard hin Of the fruits. They have pes
cred, after the preliminary injunction very
st sces be entered S ooi for eonpanan. for
petual Injunction sud Master appointed 10 take
al account according to the prayer Of the bill.
X. c. GRIER, Judge.
gorE.--The passage referred TO BY Judge Grier In
his former drcir' r'on, Wallace, p. 299 adopted as
applicable tC this was follows:
'It IL usually The case, when any valuable discov.
cry is made, any new machine Of grea. iity il
invented that the attention of the public has boon
tu.n:i to that Subject previously, and that many
persons h,;c been making researches and expert
treats Philosophers ana mechan.cians NAV iave
in some measure sntici pa,ed in their specnatione
the poesibiiity probability Of such discovery or
.nycniou; n,"ny experiments have been successful
}. tiled, coming very near. yet falling short OF the
desired result. They have produced nothing bene-
Ec.nl The invention wheL perfected may truly be
asId to be the culiuinating point of many expert
men T. NJ: only by the inventor, hut By many 9TH.
orr. Ia may hny. prnfted indirectly BIZ the lnsuc-
gives hon right to cla share of the he nor OF
I've proat % the successful inventor Il is when
.,c.ua.ior has been reduced to practice when cx-
ptsiflen, ha resulted in discovery. and when that
discovery has been perfect by patient anu conin.
He'd cxprrm mis- when some new compound, art
which is useful to thepnbic that the party making IL
h,aomns spUblic benfactor and entitled To a ratent
"Aui YET when genius and patient ,erscveranee
have nc length succeed,o, in spie of Sn.ers and
s.ldo,I Il i, followed by reward ! Envy rObs him
of the hGnor, whine spccula'ors, swindlers, and p
rates r,, him OF the profits. Every un.ucces sfu
e1neriaente. who did or did or did not come vtr,
NJ. making dscovery now claims IL. Every on
csn iuycnt an Improvement vary its form
W. "a richt ;, ;,iraie the original discovery. W
claim, -munons Morse, or Blanchard, or Wood
NEED not -tiat this il the usual history OF eve
wcr.h 70 PRIV ~or Invention:
~ rrsh discover 'dnd another chapter to thi
anc snd uniform histor,.
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