Machine

The term machine, in patent law, includes every mechanical device, or combination of mechanical powers and devices, to perform some function and produce a certain effect or result. But when the result or effect is produced by chemical action, or by the application of some element or power of nature, or of one substance to another, such modes, methods, or operations are called processes.

Piper V. Brown, 4 Fish. Pat. Cas. 175.

As used in the law of patents, " machine " includes every mechanical device, or combination of mechanical powers and devices, to perform some function and produce a certain effect or result. How distinguished from process.

Corning v. Burden, 15 How. 252, 268.

For some extended explanations of the different kinds of machines which may be protected to inventors, under the patent laws, see Union Sugar Refinery v. Matthiessen, 2 Fish. Pat. Cos. 600. Coal-cars held not such machines as are subject to mechanic's lien. New England Car-Spring Co. v. Baltimore, &c.

R. R. Co., 11 Md. 81. Machinery.

Is somewhat more extensive in meaning than machine. Thus, dies used in connection with a machine for manufacturing tinware, by means of which sheets of tin are cut into proper shape to be made up, though not machines, are yet covered by a policy of insurance on the machinery in a building on C Street, used for the manufacture of tinware. Seavey V. Central, &e.

Ins. Co., Ill Mass. 540.

Machinery, in a statute regulating the taxation of the real estate and machinery of corporations, includes the mains or pipes of a gas company.

Commonwealth v. Lowell Gas Light Co., 12 Atten, 75.

Machinery, upon a view of the whole agreement, held, to embrace a steamengine and a rolling-mill. Lowber u.

Le Koy, 2 Sand/., 202. Machine-shop.

In a policy of insurance, cannot be deemed to include an organ factory. Goddard v. Monitor, &c.

Ins. Co., 108 Mass. 56.