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FEDERAL REPORTER.
HATCH
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11. YOUNG.
«(}lrcuit (JO'llrt, D. MaBBacll/luett8. December 4, 1888.) PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS . STIFFENERS. lNFRINGEMENT-MACHINES FOR MAKING HEEL-
Letters patent No. 132,849. granted to S. Moore and H. Rogers, November 6, 1872, for improvements in machines for making heel-stiffeners for boots and shoes, the specification f<lr which recites the use of "a stationary heel-shaped former-block; * * *; allliding bender, or follower, that presses the leather-board or blank around this block; and an under-slide, that presses in or crimps the bottom edge of the blank, to form the lip or fianp;e, the follower movlllg up against the blank. a.nd pressing it upon and around the formerblock. andgriping the bent blank thereto. and the under-slide then moving against the bottom edge of the bent blank, * * * and pressing the edge under the bent blank to crimp it;" are not infringed by machines made under letters patent No. 850,907. granted to William J. Young, October 12,1886, in which the lip-turner is bolted to the frame, and III which the weighted arm or spring or crimper-slide of the former device is not found.
InEquity. Bill for infringement of patent. Bill brought by Jesse W. Hatch and others against William J. Young. W. A. Macleod, for complainant. J., E. Maynadier, for defendant. COLT, J. This suit is brought on letters patent No. 132,849, dated November 5, 1872, granted to S. Moore and H. Rogers, for improvements in machines for makIng heel-stiffeners for boots and shoes. The specification says .' "Our invention relates to the manufacture of heel-stiffeners from leatherboard, and particnlarly to the method of forming the lip or flange upon ea,ch stiffener, and of :producing alltiffener having a body contracting from the bottom to the top. In making sucb stiffeners we use a stationary heel-shaped former-block, (set so as to leave a space beneath it,) a sliding bender, or follower, that presses the leather-board or blank around this block, and an under slide, that presses in or crimps the bottom edge of the blank, to form the lip or flange, the follower moving up against the blank, and pressing it upon and around the former-block, and griping the bent blank thereto, and the under slide then moving against the bottom edge of the bent blank, (such edge not being griped,) and pressing the edge under the former-block, to crimp it." The claims in controversy are 'the first and third: , "(1) The combination of the stationary former.block, b, the slide-follower, 6, and the crimper-slide, g, the follower and slide mOVing in right lines, and operating substantially as described." "(3) The process herein described, of automatically, and by a continuous movement of thl:' prime motor, shaping and setting'to shape heel-stiffeners, by first griping the body and then crimping the bottom edge, substantially as described. .. , The defendant's machine is found described in his patent of October 12, 1886, No. 350,907. In this machine the blank is operated upon by two sets of dies. The blank is partially formed in what is called the "preliminary machine," and then completed by the auxiliary machine, ' or finisher.
ROYER fl. KING.
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Withoutgivinp: a breadth of construction to the Moore and Rogers patent which I do not think warranted, I am unable to find any infringement on the part of the defendant. In view of the pri(}r Hatch patent of August 1, 1871, the Moore und Rogers patent must be limited to the improved mechanism therein shown. A comparison of the two chines discloses a marked difference in construction and mode of operation. I do not find in the Young machine the crimper-slide found in the Moore and Rogers patent. In the Young machine the lip-turner, which turns the flange of the stiffener, is bo1ted to the frame, which is firmly fastened to the stationary table or bed; the lip-turner constituting a part of the frame or box in which the female mould is encased. Neither in the first nor in the second process of the Young machine do I find the weighted arm or spring or crim per-slide of the Moore and Rogers device. It may be said that both machines clamp and gri pa stiffener between a male and female mould, and afterwards turn a flange, but the construction and operation of the machineIJ are quite different. In my opinion the defendant's machine does not embrace the combination of devices covered by the first claim of the Moore and Rogers patent; nor do I think, in view of the prior state of the art, that the third or process claim of the Moore and Rogers patent, even if it is held to be valid, should be con· strued to cover either the first or second process of the Young invention. Bill dismissed.
RoYER t1. KING
SAME t1. RICHMAN
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SAME 11. RUSSELL.
(Oircuit (Jourt, D. indiana. November 28, 1888.) PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS-INVENTION-THRESmNG·MAcmNES.
Patent No. 259.264, issued June 6, 1882, to Louis C. Royer, as assignee of Christopher Blinn, covering the combination, in a threshing-machine, of a cylinder, & concave and grate below. a revolving beater arranged sufficiently near the cylinder to deflect the straw downward, a revolving rake and beater in the rear of the first beater, a vibrating shaker and carrier below, involves no invention; the J. A. Throp patent of April 18, 1876, those to complainant of September 7,1875. and June 20.1876. and the model made by Westinghouse & Co. during 1877-b0. all contain substantially the same elements in the same combination as in the Blinn machine; the improvements made by Blinn in the incline of the grate, and the location of the beater. being only such as a Skilled mechanic could have made with the others before him. '
At Law. Action for infringement of patent. These actions are brought by Louis C. Royer against John King and others, George W. Richman and others, and Allen A. Russell, respectively. The plaintiff is the assignee and owner of letters patent No. 259,. 264, issued June 6, 1882, to him as assignee of Christopher Blinn, for an improvement in threshing-machines. There were three claims in the patent, which cover the general combination, in a threshing-machine, of a threshing cylinder, a concave and grate below, a revolving beater arranged sufficiently near the cylinder to deflect the straw downward, a re-