This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...he does not appear to have apprehended what their utility would be in preventing tangling of the grass over the parts of the machine next to the grass lefl; uncut, sic to their hindrance, nor to have obtained a patent for that device. The use of such rollers is what the orator complains of; but the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...he does not appear to have apprehended what their utility would be in preventing tangling of the grass over the parts of the machine next to the grass lefl; uncut, sic to their hindrance, nor to have obtained a patent for that device. The use of such rollers is what the orator complains of; but the patent she owns does not appear to cover them, therefore the defendant docs not appear to infringe her patent as it was grant/ed." PROCTOR v. BRILL, 4 Fsn. REP. p. 419. E. D. or PENN., 1880. BUTLER, J. If a certain device for sustaining the pole of a horse-car, so that its weight should not bear upon the horses' necks, had previously been used on " carriages or wagons," " the application of such old device to a street-car is not patentable." AMERICAN WHIP CO. v. HAMPDEN WHIP CO., 4 Fan. Rm-. 536. D. or Mass., 1880. Lowsr.1., J. D. C. Hnll's reissued patent, No. 5651, dated Nov. 11, 1873, for an improvement in the mode of making whip-stocks. In turning the legs of chairs, &c., it had been the practice to leave a " stump-shod " or piece to be cut off; this method applied to whip-stocks, in combination, was held patentable with some hesitation, Lowell, J., saying: " I think, upon the whole, it may be supported as being something more than the new application of an old method. The invention does not consist either in making a ' stump-shod, ' or in sawing it off, but in combining the metallic load-piece of a whip-stock with the stump-shod in such a way that the stump-shod may be sawed off." KNOX v. QUICKSILVER MINING CO., 4 Fan. REP. 809. D. or CAL., 1880. FIELD, J. A device in common use for limekiln furnaces is not patentable for use in a quicksilver furnace. J. R....
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