Pattee v. Moline Plow Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “From the proof in this case it is quite clear to me that Pattee was notv the first to conceive and embody in a. working machine the idea of a tongueless straddle-row cultivator. The first machine shown in the proof which embodies this idea is that •patented by Isaac Constant,- in November, 1851. It is a tongueless straddle-row cultivator, with all the elements for a working machine of that description, and so arranged as t.o be what may be called in this art self-sustaining, that is, it will stand upon its own supports. This was also done by Arnton Smith in January, 1855; by Whitely in 1860 to 1865 ; by E. W Yangundy in February, 1864; by Pratt in October, 1864 ; and by Adam Young in November, 1866. All these show cultivators constructed without a tongue, with two plow-beams held' together by a yoke, each plow drawn by its own draft animal and operating independently of the other,”

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   e.g. Pattee Plow Co. v. Kingman