Curtis v. Humphrey’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate ·

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1. ““(I) In an apparatus for regulating chronometrically the treatment of substances, the combination of an attachment or holder for an object to be moved or withdrawn; a moving or withdrawing device; a chronometricaliy-op-erated detent; and means for engaging the detent with the withdrawing de vice during a given period of its movement and releasing the same at the termination of such period; substantially as set forth.” “(4) The combination of a cord or chain suspending at one end a substance to be treated, and at the other connected to a normally active retracting device, with a shaft in chronometrie rotation, and means for engaging the cord or chain with the shaft during any desired number of increments of the shaft rotation and releasing it when said increments are completed, substantially as set forth.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Curtis v. Humphrey