CARY MFG. CO. V. NEAL.
725
be necessary to hold that it vested in the patentee, not only a monopoly of all that he had invented, but also of all that might thereafter be added to the art in the same line of advance. The claim, after informing us that the improvement consists in pressing the mouth or neck to iinished form with a dependent mass of glass, and then withdrawing the plunger, proceeds to state that the article is then to be removed from the press mold, and finally inserted in a separate mold, and blowed in, to form the body. With the process thus described the method of the defendants does not conflict. They have adopted means, and very ingenious means, by which any necessity for removing the article from the press mold, and inserting it in a separate mold, is avoided; and in the manufacture of "Mason Jars," in which the defendants are engaged, their resultant distinctive mode of procednre is, if not essential, decidedly advantageous. Two processes cannot be said to be substantially alike where the successive steps which they involve are different; and where, as in this instance, several of the steps which are requisite to the one are wholly omitted from the other, identity of method cannot exist. But this subject has been fully and adequately treated by the learned judge of the court below, and need not be further considered. We think his opinion fully supports the decree; and as it is clear to us, as it was to him, that infringement was not shown, that decree is affirmed.
CARY MFG. CO. v. NEAL et al. (Circuit Court, S. D. New York. L PA.TENTS-ANTICIPATION-DESIGN PATENT.
November 22, 1898.)
An inventor who has obtained a patent for an article of manufacture, which patent discloses the design thereof, cannot, on an application made two years later, obtain a valid patent for such design.
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SAME-DESIGN FOR Box-FASTENER.
The Cary design patent, No 28,142, for a box-fastener, is void for anticipation by patent No. 450,753 to the same patentee for the article itself.
This is a suit in equity by the Cary Manufacturing Company against Bernard B. Neal and others for infringement of a patent. A. G. N. Vermilya, for plaintiff. Robert Stewart, for defendants. WHEELER, District Judge. This suit is brought upon design patent No. 28,142, applied for October 15, 1894, dated January 11, 1898, and granted to Spencer C. Cary, for a box-fastener. The specification 'ltates that: "The design consists, primarily, in a box-fastener having ends bounded by curved lines and upwardly or downwardly extending prongs, with openings in the material, the main surface of which is plain, and the essential features are a plain, flat body, bounded at the sides by substantially straight lines, and at each end by a curved line, having near each end openings in the face, and prongs extending from the sides of the openings at substantially right angles to the surface of the main body of the fastener,"
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90 FEDll:RAL REPORTER.
The claim is for: "'rhe design for a box-fastener substantially as herein shown and described."
The answer sets up, among other patents, as anticipations, No. 450,753, dated April 21, 1891, and granted to Cary. H is said that an inventor of a machine or manufacture may have a patent for the thing, and another for the design of the thing. This may be true; but the description of the thing would show the design. andan inventor cannot have a valid patent applied for two years later for what is described in a prior patent to himself, any more than in one to another. Campbell v. James, 104 U.. S. 356. What is in that patent may limit the therefore, to a valid patent for what is in this. The specification there states: "My invention consists in a box-strap composed of a metal strip or plate of suitable length, the edges of the opposite ends of which are curved in outline, and having a corrugation at or upon and along its side edges and said curved end edges, and provided with tongues. one or more, at or neal' the strap ends, and within the line of the said edge corrugations cut from the strap-body, and bent at an angle to the face of the strap which is opposite to the corrugated face thereof, SUbstantially .as and for the purpose hereinafter set forth." "I am aware that box-straps have been heretofore formed with tongues cut from the strap-body and bent at an angle to the face thereof, and hence I make no Claim thereto, broadly, herein. I am also aware that box-straps haye been formed with their end edges curved in outline, and therefore I make no claim to such form of the said edges, broadly, herein."
And the claim is for: "As an article of manUfacture, a box-strap composed of a metal plate or strip, the end edges of which are curved In outline, and having a corrugation which is continuous at, along, and upon the side edges, and· said end edges and tongues at or near the strap ends cut from the strap-body within the line of said edge corrugation. and bent at an angle to the face of the strap which Is opposite to the corrugated face thereof, substantially as and for the purpose set forth."
What are there called tongues cut from body of the strap, and bent at an angle to the face, are the same as what are in the patent in suit called prongs extending from the sides of the openings at substantially right angles to the body. These extracts from that patent show that a plain strap-body, with curved ends, which would imply straight sides, and prongs extending at an angle from openings which would or well might be substantially a right angle, were known to the inventor before, and disclaimed, and that he claimed and obtained a patent then for the addition of a corrugated edge all around. The patent in suit is for the same thing, in substance, without the corrugated edge then added. The design of the thing disclaimed would be as well disclaimed as the thing itself, and another patent for it as well barred, if the difference in design arising from leaving off the corrugated edge would be at all patentable. The inventor says in his testimony for the plaintiff: "I find that patent No. 450,753 is different from the design in issue, In that It has a corrugation on the face of the same, and not a plain, flat body, and that the openings In the same are of different shape, and also the prongs that are thrown up at right angles with the face ate corrugated, and also of different shape from the device in Issue."
CUSHMAN PAPER-BOX MACH. CO. V. GODDARD.
727
But the corrugation described is upon the edge, leaving within it a plain, flat body; and no mention is made in the specifications or claims of either patent of the shape of the openings or prongs, or of any differences between them. According to these views, the patent in suit seems to be wholly without foundation. Bill dismissed.
CUSHMAN PAPER-BOX MACH. CO. v. GODDARD et al.
(Circuit Court, D. Massachusetts. No. 611.
December 5, 1898.)
P ATENTS-INFRINGEMENT-PAPER- Box
MACHINE.
The Cushman patent. No. 364,161, for an improvement in paper-box machines, in view of the prior state of the art, and the doubtful utility of the machine, is limited to the form of mechanism described and shown in the specification and drawings, and is not infringed by a machine in which the blank for the box-end is carried into position on the box-body by different means, which are not the equivalent of those described.
This is a suit in equity by the Cushman Paper-Box Machine Company against Harry W. Goddard and others for the infringement of a patent. William A. Macleod, for complainant. Edward S. Beach, for defendants. COLT, Circuit Judge. The patent (No. 364,161) upon which this is suit is brought was granted May 31, 1887, to George H. Cushman, and relates to an improvement in paper-box machines, whereby a blank which is to form one end of the box is pasted, and then automatically fed forward into position above the box-rest, where its pasted sides are brought into contact with the body of the box. The patentee, in his specification, says: ")ly invention consists, essentially, in the combination, with a pasting mechanism, a box-rest, and a presser plate, of an automatically operating feeder, whereby the pasted end blank is transferred from the pile of blanks into position to be forced closely in contact with the end of the box-body. As the end blank is being fed into position under the presser-plate, it travels in a guide-way, which insures the correct presentation of the end blank to the box-body, thereby enabllng the end blank to be applied uniformly."
The broad first claim of the patent is the only one in controversy: In a machine for the manufacture of paper boxes, a box-rest for the box-body, and a presser-plate co-operating therewith. pastel's, and guides to hold the end blanks above said pasters, combined with a reciprocating feeder. substantially as described, whereby the pasted end blanks are automatically fed from the guides to a p()sition between the presser-plate and box-rest, to be united to and form an end of the box-body, substantially as described." "(1)
This claim refers to a combination of five elements: (1) A box-rest for a box-body; (2) a presser-plate co-operating therewith; (3) pastel's; (4) guides to hold the end blanks above the pastel's; (5) a reciprocating