Stahl v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““In an incubator, as a means of uniformly beating its interior chamber, tlie flat tank overlying said chamber, and provided with the two partitions extending from one end nearly to the other on opposite sides of its middle, in combination with the external heating vessel, the two xjipes, as, leading from its top into opposite sides of the tank outside of the partitions, and the return pipe, a*, located at the same end of the tank, and extending from a point between the partitions to the base of the heater, whereby the hot water is delivered in two currents along the sides of the tank, and returned through its middle to the heater.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Stahl v. Williams

2. ““6. In an egg-holding tray, the combination, with the wires or cross bars, of a web of muslin or similar material on which the eggs rest, and which is movable, so- as to turn the eggs, substantially as set forth. ‘•(7.) The combination, in an egg holding and turning tray, of cross wires or bars, a web, and a roller upon which the web may be wound, substantially as set forth."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Stahl v. Williams