Turner v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “The record amply demonstrates that the imported food-cutting machines were designed to be and, after importation, were equipped with an electric motor which operates a meat table upon which meat is placed and fed toward the knife and the stacking mechanism which must synchronize with the meat table in order for .the machine to work properly, and, furthermore, that it would not be commercially practical to operate the machine by manual or any other power. We are satisfied from the evidence before us that the requirements set forth in the Dryden case, supra, to constitute a device as “essentially an electrical article” have been fulfilled.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Baker Perkins, Inc. v. United States