The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-06-18
ROBERTS PETROLEUM TORPEDO.


ROBERTS PETROLEUM TORPEDO.
TORP,EDOES.
THE ROBERTS
PETROLEUM ToRpElD co.
Office at the
RED FLAMING MILL,
.COraer OF Pine and second Streets.
49, t(Near the RatirOad,)
IrusvILLE, PA.
owips to the large and increasing demand for the
RDberts' Torpedoes, and the late decision OF this
patent. ard the decision Of Judge II. Z Glier sus-
tai,.ing the Roberts patent they have LOWERED
the price OF their Torpedoes
TwENrf PER CENT.
so that every Operator can afford to try Torpedo
before abandoning Well.
The following il the decision rendered by Judgc
,rier GU the twenty second (s2 day of September,
SO in the United States Circuit Court at Piiladel.
phia. The case was argued three days by Charles
M Keller of New York, b, y: Lucas and = A: Pur-i
yi,uee of Piitshuvsi, for deiendanis, and George
Harding OF Philadelphia, and George II. Chris,y, o
Pittsburgh, for plaintiff.
OPINION OF JUDGE GRIER.
A write with difficulty can only state the con
c,usions to which my mind has come after careful.
examination Of this case.
The cGm1!ainsnt nan h:s A., exhibited a patent dated
good title aud puts on the respondents the bur
:, Of proaf that the patent Is void worthless.
need not repeat my remarks in the case of Good.
year W. Day u Wall, G. c. Rep; 2.9.) hut now
adopt them az sfo.ding rule OF decision which ap.
plies clearly TO the present case.
AZ the infringement Of the patent i admit ted,
the on question VII BE ss a e s the validity OF com
,tIt was after speculation had been reduced to
pact ice ard after repeated experiments that the
complainant succeeded In overcoming he prejudice
and ignorance of the people on the subject, and
pesuaiing the public that bis invention usctil;
after he had established its great utility and value
ant "when his genius and patient perseverance, in
cessful, that Reed, who had before made expert.
n,euts on the same subject, and was unsuccessful,
imagined that he had the best right to the invention
and after p purchas,ng &C. one or more GSmp,snant,ter
for patent for substantially the same conbina
s'uns Of devices ard achne contained in complain
ants patent. On the 18th of the same month the
respondents formed themselves into company or
CORPORATION called 1.-THE Reed Torpedo Company"
for tho purpose of piratng the cOmplainauis in.
vention, and supporting the expense OF litigation,
severed, even alter the preliminary injunction very
properly granted bv the District Judge.
Let decree be entered for complainant for Der.
petual Injunction. and Master appointed to take
a account according to the prayer Of the bill
NorE.-The passage referred to BY Judge Grier in
his former dscs'on, Wallace, p. 200 adopted as
applicable to this case was as follows:
"It il usually the case when any valuable d.cov.
cry Is made, or any new machine Of great u,iity
= Aor,ktn nc tk
turned to that subject previously, and that many
persons have been making researches and expert.
| meuts philosophers and meChanicans Eiay Eave
III some measure anticipated In their specniatons
the possibility probability Of sueh discovery or
| nvtntiop many experiments have been successful.
y tried coming very near. yet falling short of the
desired result. They have produced nothing bene.
fetal. The Invention when perfected niay truy be
said to be the eliminating point of many experi
men =, not only by the inventor. but by many 9th.
ora. lie may have protited indirectly bv the lnsuc.
cs-sfu experiments and failures Of Others. but i,
gives them no right to claim share of the honor of
| the profit Of the successful inventor II ia when
speculation has been reduced to practice when cx.
pertinent ha. resulted in discovery. aud when TINT
discovery has been perfected by patient ana coutin
| ued experiments, when some new compound art.
| mauufacture, or machine has been thus produc,d
which is useful to the the party making il
becomes apublic bensfactor and entitled to patent
have at length succeeded, In spite Of snt ers and
SCOTS, some valuable invention or disco-ery. how
seldom is IL followed by reward! Envy Iobs him
of the honor while speculators, swindle,s s. and pi
rates rob him of the profits. Every unsucc essiul
experimenter who did or did or did not come yery
| near making discovery now claims II. Every ons
claims right TO pirate the original discovery We
need not summons Morse, or Blanchard or Wood
worth TO prove that this Is the usual history Of eve
| ~ great discovery or invention
"The present case aGds smother chaptcr In thie
long and uniform history."-2 Wallace, c. L. Ne
ports p. co2