The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-10-03

TORPEDOES.|
THE ROBE ERTs
PETROLEUM TORPEDO co.
Office AT the
RED PLANNING MILL,
Corner Of Pine ana second streets,
Mear she RatlrOadJ
TITUSVILLE, PA.
Roberts Torpei0es, and the late decision Of the
Commissioner Of Patents in refusing to Wm Reed
patent. and the decision Of Judge n. z. lrier
tatning tho R0berts' patent they have LOWERED
the price Os their Torpedoes
TWENTY. PER CENT.
before abandoning We'll.
The following Is the decision rendered BY Judge
Grifr on the tweutysecond gay day Of September,
1st9 IN The United States Circuit Cont at Philade
pai, 1T, the case wss argued three days by Charles
yiancs Of PMtshu.sh, for defendants, and George
hs,ding q fhnSdelphia' and George H. Chris,y, Of
Of1NION OF JUDGE GRIER.
Az write with dificulty can only state the con
examination Of this case
S Iss ANIL % h. ri: shIs'ss nsss patent dated
den Of proof that the patent is void or worthless
need not repeat my remarks In the case Of Good.
ysar yar, y; y Day q Wall, G. G Reps 3a?,) but now
plies clearly to the present case.
AZ the infringement of the patent Is admit ted,
the only question viii BE- as to the validity Of com.
plainants patent Of April q, 1858.
''It wa. after speculation had been reduced to
practice" and after repeated experimental that the
complainant succeeded in overcoming he prejudice
persnsding the public that his invention was 1seii:
after he had established its great utility and value
and "when his genius and patient perseverance,, in
eessful, that Reed, who had before made cxpcri.
ments on the same subject, and was unsuccessful.
imagined that be had the best right to the invention
pedoes, he applied ON the LIST of November, 1857,
for patent for substantially tho same combiua.
tions Of devices and machine contained In complain.
ants patent On the 18th of the same month the
respondents formed themselves into a company or
corporation called "The Reed Torpedo Coinpsny. y
for the purpose Of pirating the complainant's in.
and thus defraud him Of the fruits They have per
severed, even otter the preliminary Injunction yery
properly granted by tho District Judge
pcttal injunction, and Master appointed TO take
Al account according to the prayer Of the bill
X. G. GRIER, Judge.
Nors.-The passage referred to BY Judge Gricr In
his former decision, Wallace, p. 800, adopted as
applicable TO this case was as follows:
ut Is usually tho case, when any valuable dscoy.
cry nado, or any new machine Of great utility ia
invented, that the attention Of the public has been
turned to that subject previously, and that many
ments. Philosophers and meehanicfans NAV have
III some measure anticipated In their spccIiiatons
tho possibility or probability Of such discovery or
invention; many experiments have been successful.
tiled, coming very near. yet falling short Of the
dcial. The invention when perfected may Truly be
said to be the eliminating point Of many exDeri.
pon Z, not only by the inventor, but by many 9th.
6rs lie may have proilted indirectly BY the insuc.
eesslu experiments and failures Of others, but 1t
gives them no right to claim share Of the honor Of
the profit OF the successful inventor II IL when
speculation has been reduced to practice whom az
pertinent has resulted in discovery and when that
discovery has boon pcrfect,d by patient ana cOntin.
nr Sni %eh some me new compound art
which is useful to public that the party making
becomes npublic belefctOr and entitled to Datent
sand yet when genius and patient perseverance,
nave at length succeeded, in spite Of sneers and
seldom Is II followed by reward Envy robs him
OF the honor, while spcculatOrs swndlers, and nj.
rates rob him Of tho profits Every un,nCcessi,1l
exlerimenter who did or dld or did not come yery
near making discovery now claims IT.. Every one
who can invent al Improvement or vary its form,
claims right to pirate the original discovery We Va
need not summons Morse, Or Blanchard, or Wood
worth to prove that this is the usual history Of eve
ry great discovery or invcntion.
"The present case adds another chaptcr tn this
long and uniform hlstory."-3 Wallace, G. q. Re-