BOBKXTS' PETROLEUM TORPEDO.
TOJBPBDOES.
THE ROBERTS
PETKLCTEI T8RPEE0 00.
Office at the
Red Planing Mill,
MUr of Plme and JReeoad Street
M.aur the natlrond,)
TIHrSVILLE, PA.
Owtnc to th lane and Increasing demand for the
Alberta Torpedoes, and the late decision of the
.Commissioner of Patauta iu remain? to Wm. Kced
patent, and the decision of Judpj if. C. Grtcr ens
talninc the Koberts' patent they have LOWEUEU
the price of their Torpedoes
TWENTf. PER CENT.
fo uk every Operator can afford to try a
tefore abandoning a Well.
The following is the decision rendered by Jud"0
rterea tlie twenty-second (!) day of Soptenihi'r.
K, to the United States Circuit Court at Pluludol-
Crier
phla. The case was anjucd three days by Churics
.... noiHi ui new iuin, o. w. i-nctu una s. A. Pur
Tiance of Pittehnruh, for defendants, and George
Harding of Philadelphia, and Uw U. chiieiy.tf
Pittaburgh, for plaintiff. "
OPINION OP JUDGE GIUER.
As I write with difficulty I can only Mate the con
elusions to which my mind Ima come after a carelu
zamlnatloD oi thii cases, I
The complainant baa exhibited a patent dated
April, 18B6. Thie la prima faciei Wneilceol
a good title, aud puts on the respondent the bur-
don of proof that the patent is told or worthies.
I neaa not repeat my remarks in the cane of Uood
yw m Day a Wall, C. G. Kept ad.) but now
adopt them aa affording a rule oi decision which an
Dliea clearly to the nresent cm,. 1
Aa the infringement of the patent la admitted,
the only qneatlon will be ae to the validity of com
plainanta patent of April as. 1858. .
"It was after speculation had been reduced to
practice," and alter ropeated exiwrimeots, that the
complainant succeeded In overcoming 'he linjudlce
and Ignorance of t he people on the subject, and
persuading the public that his Invention waa aeefali
after ho had established its great utility and value,
and "when his genius and patient perseverance, in
spite of sneers and scoffs." wero umnlpt.lv .
ceaaful, that Heed, who had before made exieri-
.....juv,, uu wlu unsuccessful,
imagined that he bad the best right to the Invention
and after purchasing one or more complainaut's tor
pedoes. he awlled on the 1st of November. 18B7.
for a patent for substantially th. . '
tlons of devices aud warhinn contained In comolain-
nms paieni. un ills lath or the same month the
respondents formed themselves into a company or
.... .... jorpeuo loinpanv,'
for the purpose of pirating the complainant's In.
ration, anasiipporting the expanse of litigation,
and thus defraud him of the fruits. They have per
severed, even alter the preliminary Injunction very
properly granted by the District Jndae. '
Let a decree be ontentd r.vnimni.i.... r .
petual injunction, and. a Master appointed to take
mm -vm. vMkuuij w me prayer or the hill.
It C. UUIER, Judge.
Nora. The passage referred to bv .Tndge Qrler In
bis former dec.s'ou, Wallace, p. 299, adopted as
applicable to this ease was as follows:
"It is usually the case, when any valnable discov
ery la made, or any new machine of great utiiltv la
Jnvenled, that incaltention of the publ.o has been
turned to that suhjeot previously, aud that many
)Mirsons have been making researches and expert
moots. Philosophers and mechanicians mav have
in some m-wsnre anticipated iu their speculations
the possibility or probability of sueh discovery or
invention! many experiments have been successful
ly tiled, coming very near, yet falling short of the
jEJiiS?"'!1 T'jeyhive produced nothing bene
J iS1. rhtaven, "hen perfected may truly be
s.id to lw toe culminating point or many expert
men s, not only by the inventor, but by many oth
ore. He may haw, profited indirectly by the nnsuo
csMsfulcxperlmentaand failures of other,, but it
gives them no right to claim a share of the henor of
tueprodtof the successful inventor It is when
speculation has been reduced to practice, when ex
perlrnent has resulted In dlaiovery. and when that
rf ' "" y panent ana contin
ued experiments, when soma new compound, art.
manur.jcture.ormaohlne has been thus produced
which is useful n the pi.bllc.that the party SLkS,
beeomcs .public benefactor and entitled to a patent.
i,iU?7M.l,mcnl,"!. Wbut Perscvwance
haveatfongthsncceeded, In spile nfVneers and
hjoITs, Borne vsluable invention or dlsco-erv h
sjldom is it follmved by reward l' En?, r7b, hta
of the honor, while speculators, swindle's, and pi
rates rob him of the proflta. 'Every niisncoessfnl
sxiwrlmenterwhodidordidordid not conie very
near making a discovery now claims It. Every one
who can Invent an improvement or vary Its form,
tlauns a right to pirate the orisrlnal discovery w
need not summons Horse, or Blanchnrd. or Wood
worth to prove that this is the usuul history of cvo
ty great discovery or Invention. '
"The present case aa.U another chapter to thla
Jong and milform history ."-2 Wallace C. 2. j
CAUTION.
The pnhlle Is cautioned sBami employing any
ill the regularly aulliorlsi Agents of' the cSmpa
M. aura the ltoberu Patent cover the use of the
"injpedo aud all explosive materials for oil well
direct Infringement of thulr rights. Anviiarihi',n11
flinging any of the KOBKKTS PATEN ri " U he
dealt with accorrfing to law, and as actlnir wllir,.u
if theTourU iUlce of law Bnd aecisioni
The Company havo re organised tholr business
T 1 u , i ." man ,a ovury Part
"'m' V'i H"?00- a ""? nuve "P'y the most
efficient Agents and asdislapta that can be nrocnrwl
lorihe buiuoB. Kach Tortmdo J labelled with
dale af patents, tngothor wiili the price of tho Tor
cdi, and sU'ned by an officer of the Comnauv. so
every Operator wishing a Torpedo may know iu
price and whether It ctoie from oiir ollici
no.utors will confer a lavor by reporting to Ibis
Umce auv neclloiit nr Auantd & B
The roliowiog mimed persons have boen aDiioint-
JilST OF AGENTS.
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