Troy Laundry Machinery Co. v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““All of tbe elements of tbe combination were old save one,—the dampening rollers covered with a thin textile fabric. Tbe Beach patent, No. 18,032, is, it is thought, the best reference offered by the defendants. It shows rollers arranged in similar juxtaposition to the rollers of the patent in hand, but the Beach mechanism is designed to dampen and cut paper. It would' be wholly useless as a machine for dampening collars and cuffs, for the reason, principally, that' its rollers are covered with cloth and not by the thin textile fabric of the patent. It was the adoption of this thin fabric which made success out of failure. Other coverings had produced too much or too little water, but this one seems to hit the happy medium. The rollers so covered do the work required with perfect satisfaction, fulfilling all the requirements demanded by the launderer’s art.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Troy Laundry Machinery Co. v. Adams Laundry Machinery Co.