HUES V. BIOKELHOUPT.
567
an outer reticulated covering and curved slats, called gutters, within, having flanges at the upper edges extending upwards, and at the lower edges extending downwards, both serving to stiffen the gutters, and the lower one for an attachment for the reticulated covering. The first claim is for the combination of the covering with the gutters, and the fifth is for the gutters themselves. These gutters are shown as slanting, and operating to shed rain or snow in the same manner as the slanting slats. The reticulated covering operates as a screen, precisely as it would if there were no slats. Neither operates any differently, or accomplishes any result in connection with the other different from what it would if the other was not there. They appear to form a mere aggregation, and not a patentable combination. Pickering v. McCullough, 104: U. S. 310; Double-pointed Tack 00. v. Two Rivers Manuj'g 00. 109 U. S. 117; S. C. 3 Sup. Ct. Rep. Further, slanting slats performing the same office as these were a part of common knowledge,-their existence is assumed in the as a known part of a louver, on which the invention was set up as an improvement. A screen like the reticulated covering was also well known. There would not appear to be any patentable invention in putting the two to uses together for which each was before well known separately. The flanges to the gutters for stiffening them were merely such addition'S as would be supplied by good workmanship when needed. They w.ere not new for that purpose. And the use of the flange shape for attaching the reticulated covering would appear to be very obvious. These claims appear to be without sufficient invention to uphold them. Let there be a decree dismissing the bill of complaint, with costs.
HAYES 'lJ. BICKELHOUPT, ((Ji'l'cuit OOU'l't,8. D.
Sr.
New York. August 25, 1884.
and ventilators, are not to be found in the original patent, and are void.
2.
SAME-REISSUE 8,689-VALIDITY-INFRINGEMENT.
The second and third claims of reissued patent No. 8,689, for sky,lights and ventilators, are not anticipated by any prior patents or structures, are valid, and are infringed by defendant.
In Equity. J. H. Whitelegge, for orator. A. v. Briesen, for defendant.
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FEDERAL REPORTER.
WHEELER, J. This suit is brought upon reissued patents Nos. 8,597, 8,674, 8,675, 8,688, and 8,689, granted to the orator for improvements in sky-lights and ventilators. They have been before the circuit court for the Eastern district of New York, (Judge BENEDICT,) and some of them before this court, (Judge COXE,) and all the claims alleged here to be infringed have been adjudged to be void, except the eighth of 8,674, the first, second, and Eleventh of 8,675, and the second and third of 8,689. Hayes v. Seton, 12 FED. REP. 120 j Hayes v. Dayton, 20 FED. BEP. 690. Of these, the eighth of 8,674, and the first, second, and seventh of 8,675, are not to be found in the original patents, but were added after the patents had stood nearly nine years without them, and are void for the roason given in these former cases as to other claims, which are concurred in and followed. There are left the' second and third claims of 8,689. These claims in the reo' issue appear to be the same as in the original. They are not shown to be anticipated by any prior patents or structures, and no good reason is apparent for adjudging them to be invalid. The third is for a sash swinging on pivots, having exterior and overlapping elastic flanges on the sides and bottom of the part of the sash swinging out. ward, forming an outer flashing for protection against storms. The alleged infringement appears to havesnch a flange at the bottom. In Hayes v. Seton there appears to have been no Buch flange on any part of the sash. There, no infringement of this claim was found; here, there appears to be an infringement to the extent of the use of this flange at the bottom of the sash. The second appears to be infringed by the use of the combination of flanged covering strips in combination with hollow metallic posts for supporting glasses, as described in that claim. The orator appears to be entitled to a decree as to these two claims of this patent, and the defendant as to the residue of the claims in cvntroversy j but, as neither prevails fully, without costs to either. Let there be a decree for the orator for an injunction and account as to the second and third claims of No. 8.689. accordingly, without costs.
ELECTRIO GAB LIGHTING Co. v. TILLOTSON and another. (Oirouit Court, S. D. New York. PATENTS Il'OR INVENTIONS- REISSUE LIGHTING STREET LAMPS.
September 18, 1884.) APPARATUS FOR
No. 9,743 -ELEOTRIOAL
Claims 2 and 5 of reissued patent No. 9,743, granted to Jacob P. Tirrell, assignor, and dated June 7, 1881, for electrical apparatus for lighting street lamps, held invalid.
In Equity. Edwin H. Brown, for orator.