The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1872-02-16
soBERrs PETROLEUM TORPEDO 9.

IORP EDOES.
Tcu THE ROBERTS
PETROLEUM TDRPEDu Co.
Office at the
RED PLANING MILL
Cor or OF Pine and Sceond streets,
Near the Ratlroad,)
TITUsvILLE PA. nt
Owing to the large and increasing demand for tho
Roberts Torpedues. and the ilaie decision OF the
Commi. sioner Of Patents In refusing to v IN. R,ed
pa,cn, AID the decision of Judge Y. q ,,ier sus.
tailing the Hoberis' patent they have LOWLkED
the price of their Torpedo's
TAENTf PER CENT.
80 that every Operator can afford ~ Try Torpedo
before abandoning We'll.
The following lie the decision rendered by Judge
Grier on the tweltyseconU l2zl day Of st ltember.
lsG9 in the United states Circuit Court al phaosl
phs: The case Mas argued three dny. by Charles
vance of Pittsburgh, Tor defendants, and George
Harding Of philaGeipha, ard George II. Ihrisiy, o.
Pittsburgh, for painful. .., '5
As write with difficulty can only state the con
clusions to which my mind has come astvr careful.
examination OF this case.
The com, claimant has exhibited y patent dated
18th Of April iS65. This is pr,aa face evidence OF
good title aud puts ou the respondents the bur
den OF proof that the patent is VOID or worthless
neea not repeat my iemarks in the case OF Good
year Va Da, l2 wall c. c. Rep 2s9,f but now
adopt them rs atlUrding rule oi decision Which ap-
pics cea,ly to the pI esent case.
As the infringement of the patent 10 admitted,
the only question will be Is to the validity oi
| plainaIs patent u April -, ls5s.
ii was after speculation had been rtducedto
practice. and afti repeated experiments that tn
complainant -ncceed.d III over cUm . the prejudice
| and ignoIanee Of the people on the SUBJECT and
| rcrs uauing the public tia his invention was uSiu
aft he had established its great utility and valne
and when his genius and p'tent perseverance,, In
1 spite o snsers III scoif-, were completely suc
| ce sful, that Reed whu had before nude expert
mtnts on he same subject and was un-ucc' eslul,
| and after purchasing one or more cumpainauts tor
| peIoes, he appi on tue LIST OF November le61,
| Tor u paie' for substantially the tame combna.
ons Of devices and machine CON aimed in eOupla NJ
| ants patent; On The 18th uf the same mOnh ihe
| re. pundeits formed thense ives into company Or
| cor Grafton called ha keed 1orled Company,
I the purpose Of rating the con npininaii in
and thus deiraud him d the fruits. They have pei
served, even after the prel.niaIy injunction very
properly granted, by tit i,.ricl judge:
Let degree 10 en'er.d for conf lainait for per.
i
all account accordingly 10 The payer OF the.bill
| H. Z. GluEk, Jndgs.
NorE.-The passage referred to bv Judge Grier n
his former decision, Wallace, p. 2s'. adopted q
app icabe to this case was rs follows:
"It Is .ually the case, when amy valuable discov-
\ cry Ia uade or any new machine of great utility ie
invented, that the eattentiOn of the pubic has Deea
I ,urucd to that subject previously aud that mAiJ
| Iiersons have been making researches and expert
| nents. Philosophers ana mechanicians may hsNo
| IN some m, asure anticipated in their specu'aton,
..ie possibility or probability Of such discovery OF
| nventiou many experiments have beeL successful
Iy tied coming very near yet falling short VI 'he
desired result. They have produced nothing Gehe'
iclai. The invention whei perfected may uuiy g
| sad to be the eliminating point OF MANY exP'I"
men =, not only by the inventor. but by many oln'
ors. lie may have p-otted indirectly by the ln.ut e
csssfu experiments and failures OF others ou' =
gives them right to cia a share ostie neno, Va
TIE proil OF the successful inventor IL II WIZ
spec ua,i,n has been reduced to practice, whsn e..
pertinent has resulted in discovery and when uia'
discovery has been perfected by patient anu e9h'i
ued experiments, when some new compOhhu, :. ,
manufacture, or machine has been thus pf3u,uee.,
which Is usefulto thepublic, that the party makns,
becomes public bentfactor and eittledto pa,ena
sand yet when genius and patti ut psrse'ei"n..S .S
have at length succeeded, In spite OF shteS aS anS
-uods, some valuable invention or osco'ery, I H.,
seldom is II followed by reward Envy toos ",d al
Of the honor, whiIe spectators, swindles, anu
rai-s rob him of the profits. Every unsuceesslu,
sxperimenrer Who did or did or did not come W.;
near making discovery now claims II. Ever! IN
who can invent AN improvement or vary ns w. We
claims right to lirale the original olscorI' od
! need not summons Morse, or Blanchard, OF w. W..
worth to prove that this II the usual his'o'' W "
ry great discovery or invention. A.. chi.
1.-THE pres ent case a0ds another chap'e, W y, " ~.
long and inform history."-2 Wallace't " A''
ports p. ~