T:rEBEUTB: V. BUBBER oil CELLULOID. ETa·· 00.
151
THEBBlUTH V.
THE
BURnB
& CELLULOID HAB!fBss-TBIIIIIING July 14,1880.)
CoMPANY.
(CirC'Uit CO'Urt, D. NetlI Jl'IT'S611.
On Bill, etc. D. J. This case bas been heard on bill, plea, replication, and proofs. The bill alleges that the complainant is the original and first inventor of three several patents, to-wit: one ,for the "improvement in the covering of harness trimmings," da.ted January 18, 1870, and numbered 99,082; one for a "new and useful design for harness trimmings," dated June 18, 1871, and numbered 5,006; and one for "improve: ment in harness mountings," dated August 24, 1875, and numbered 167,040; and charges that the defendant corporation has made, used, and vended to others to be used, a large number and quantity of an article of harness trimmings which infringe the three several patents. The plea denies that the three alleged inveutions are, in point of fact, connected together in use or operation, and conjointly embodied in any of the harness trimmings and other articles manufactured, used, or sold by the defendant, on which denial the complainant has taken issue by replying. The complainant's replication is an admission by him of the sufficiency of the plea as a defence, if the facts which it alleges are established by the evidence. Myers v. Darr, 18 BIatchf. 22-26; Story's Eg. PI. § 697. The issue, then, is as to the truth of the allegations of the plea, that no one article manufactured and sold by the defendant infringes the three patents on which the suit is founded. The patents occupy very narrow ground. They refer to new methods of covering harness trimmings, and to new designs in the formation of rings and terrets. The teaNIXON,
152
REPORTER.
timony is brief, but I think its weight is with the complainant. Both Kuhn and Davy seem to be intelligent witnesses, and give satisfactory reasons why certain articles, which are acknowledged to be the product of the defendant's manufactory, infringe the complainant's patents. The last-named witness, taking Exhibit E, which is a bolt hook and two terrets, made and sold by the defendant corporation, said that they infringed the three claims of the three patents "in having a raised or oval center, with a Beam or groove on each edge, and a turned-up, solid metallic edge; are of precisely the same design, and undoubtedly were made to imitate goods manufactured under the complainant's several patents." This testimony is confirmed by the eyesight. The articles made and sold by the defendant appear, on inspection, to be the same as those made and sold by the complainant under his patents, except in the one. case they are covered with vulcanized rubber, and in the other with leather. The only contradiction to it is the evidence of Mr. Albright, the president of the defendant company, and his denial of the infringement seems to be based upon the idea that the patents of the complainant cannot be infringed without the use of leather, needles, and stitches. The defendant adopts the methods and designs of the patents, but covers the article with rubber rather than leather, and this is done in the face of the statement of the patentee in his specifications "that the covering may be made of any material, whether elastic or non-elastic, and may be applied to any and every kind of harness trimmings in precisely the same man· ner rubber may be used for such trimmings." Under the proofs there must be judgment on the plea in favor of complainant, with costs.
PEAIlL t'. APPLETON 00.
PEARL PEARL
others v. THE PANY
ApPLETON COMPANY
and others. CoM-
and others v. THE
HAMILTON
MANUFAOTUlUNG
and others. JUly 17, 1880.)
(C'ircuil CMlf"'l, D. Ma88achu,ett8.
L PATlIiNT-RImlsmc No. 6,036.-The second claim of reissue No. 6,038 for improvements in ring-spinning machines held to be infringed b1 patent No. 113,576. S. DRAWING-AMENDJm1I'1'-RET. ST. t 4916.-Drawings of a machine patent need not be amended by the model in accordance with section f916 of the Revised Statutes, where such amendment do08 not affedl the claims of the patent.
In Equity. LOWELL, C. J. The length of this record of more than 3,000 ,printed pages, besides the labor involved in its examination, makes it not improbable that I may have overlooked, or forgotten, some evidence which one party or the other may. consider important. I have studied it to the best of my ability. The contest is mainly between the Pearl and the Sawyer spindles, with their bobbins, as patented and used in ring spinning. The former, patented in re-issue No. 6,036, September 1, 1874, was sustained by Judge Shepley in Pearl v. Ocean Mills, 11 Off. Gaz. 2. The same learned judge afterwards granted an injnnction in Pearl v. Coventry Company, in Rhode Island, and a copy of the arguments, with the ju,dge's full running commentary, has been furnished me. From these sources we can discover what a judge of great experience in patent cases, as well as of great natural aptitude for such investigations, thought of the validity and construction of the plaintiffs' patent. The issue of infringement is wholly different from any with which he was. concerned. Pearl's original patent, No. 102,587, May 5, 1870, was entitled an "Improvement in Bobbins f01' Spinning," which is shown by the specification to be ring spinning, and it describes the old form of bobbins as being made with a chamber. or bore, extending through the bobbin, with bearings to grasp the spindle. called in the record "adhesive" at either I