The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1871-02-21
aoBgRTs' rEFRNLEUM TORPEDO.

aoBgRTs' PEFRNLEUM TORpEDO.
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'EQ-t1.P Ll0OBS.
.TilH IsUDEIeTs
PSYa0tEuM TORPEDO CO.
office at ifAe
RAD PLANNING MILL,
OorA'er OF Pine and second Strcets,
Wear the sxatirOad,)
TITUsVILLE, PA. ::
Owing To the iar-c and increasing demand for the
N'b-fis r0rredoei, md the late decision OF the
Commissioner uf Patents ia refnainy to VIM Reed
s rnt aad tue d'si-i IN OF Judge h Z. 4rier sus.
,miins The it'bs1s pttent they have LOW kilED
the price OF their lorprdots N
.rxENri> PER CENT.
90 th,i every Operator can afford ~ try q rsrpedo
eef"rr aUandOiins Well.
Ihe following IL the decision rendered by Jndcr
Gricr on the twenty SECOND t2l) day of setornbcr.
lSs IN the United states Circuit Court az PMisdel
phia. The aas nryued three duvs hv .,hsrI.s
~ Keller Q! New York, B. y. Lucas and 4 A. Pnr.
yiamce "f i'iil-rurgh. for def ndants and I;eor"e
iiarains OF l'oiadelphs, AND ueorge H. thirsty, of
'"'t", '"' pm
OPINION Or JUDGE aRIER
A. write sith iil'cnity can only state the con
S,!-."n. 70 WHICH my mind has come after careu
The com lainsnl bus exhibited . patent dated
25th u April, $50. 1nis l. prlma face evidence of
go'1 otie, aud pnts oa the respondents the bur
Den W pro1i thht me patent il void OF worthless.
nrei not rep, Mt my femirss in the case Of Good
year "; ia, u adi, c. C. Rep 22S) but now
adopt them ntordne rule OF decision Which an
pics clearly 10 tIe PRESENT case.
~ the infringement Of the patent 10 admitted,
the only guest on will be IS TO the validity OF com
plIin"n's patent of April Vi, lSsS
1T WAS alt'r speculation had been reduced fo
Practice ard aifer repeated experiments that the
complainant succ.-ded In overcoming he rrriudic,
aha ignorance OF the people TN tue subject ana
persudg the pubic that his invention WAS use,lIi:
after he had esiA 1shed its great uiilty and value
aad when hls genius and patient perseverance in
sne u suceF9 sa ana scoii-, sete completely s1c-
uiens on the same enheCt, and was un- ucce. .fil
I'm ,rei that he had the Dtst right 20 he ny.,,tio
a'.9r parchssing one OF more Com pla,naut = tor
He'oes he appieI on the lat Of NOv,mbtr. 1857
tr patent for srhstGntiaily the aame comtjua
tuns III devices and a,hf Contained in comnIain.
ANS 'mteht. On me 10th of the same month the
r~puIdcu's ro!iued themselves into coupary or
sprporaiii III called The Reed Torpedo Coinpny .
for the purpose OF piratiug the coinpainani's In.
ve toli ahd .upp rtinE the expense OF litigation,
ahd thi- dei'aud hsl Of the fruits. They have pef
seyefed even after the preliminary Injunction vsry
properly gran;et by the district Judge
Lt uscree oe entered Tor complainant for per.
petuli injunction, and Master appointed TO take
sn account according to the prayer of the bill
H. Z. GkIkR, Judge.
NorE-The passage referred to BY ,Judce Crier IN
his former decision, Wallace, p. 2e9 adopted az
app icabie to this case was as follows
"it II Usually the case, when any valuable d;scoy
cry u siaae or any new machine Of great uliity IA
1nvrnted that Tie attention Of the public has been
turntd ~ That subject previously, and that many
persons have been making reseaI cies and experi
menis. Philosophers anu rneciianicians NAV fayc
IL some MEASURE anticipated in their sDecuintions
the possibility or PROBABILITY Of such discovery Cr
invention; many experiments have been successfu,
desired result. They have produced nothing honc
ncal The Invention wnen perfected may truly he
sHid to he the eliminating point of MANY ex1cri
MEL ), not only by the Inventor, hut by many 9th
ors, re nsy hnv. prohted indirectly by the unsuc
gives then no right to ca m share OF the hcnor o.
iie proai oi the successful inventor Ii IA whe1
tpecua'lon has been Itzliced to practice, when ex
p'filnent ma resulted Ia discovery and when tha
discovery his been perfected ny patient ana cOntiu
ued experiments, when some Ie,y compOund nrt
manufacture. or machine ha. been thu. nfOdrc,,
whc 10 Ii-eiuIt to the pubii,t hat the party max m
beeom,s apubiic bcnciactor and entit ed to latent
"And yet when genius snd patient perseverapc.
have ut length succeeded, in spite of aneers mi
scoiis, some valuable invention or disco err how
seldom is Ii followed by reward Envy robs him
OF the honor, "he apecuistors, swi ndle-s ana nj.
fat.s rob him of tho profits. Every unsncfn..ul
near mailing discovery nov claims il, Every ons
VINO can invent al Improvement or vary its ur,n
chains right to iras the original discovery Ne
u ca ho' SUMMONS 'iorse, Or Blanchard, Or Wood.
worth To Tovetna this IL the usual HISTORY of eve
~ ErrH discovery or invention
II ne present case ADDS another chaptor 10 this
hns anu Uniform hiatory."-2 Wallace, O. q. lie.
DsIgta Al "