Machinery

A more comprehensive term than machine, including the appurtenances necessary to the working of a machine; Seavey v. Ins. Co., Ill Mass. 540; as the mains of a gas company; Com. v. Cas Light Co., 12 Allen (Mass.) 75; or even a rolling-mill; Lowbler v. Le Roy, 2 Sandf. (N. Y.) 202. Parts of a machine considered collectively; also the combination of mechanical means to a given end, sqch as the machinery of a locomotive, or of a canal lock, or of a watch; Bennedict v. City of New Orleans, 44 La. Ann. 793, 11 South. 41. Those devices and ‘ parts of a car which have no physical operation and connection with the locomotive, except by means of the cars of a train, and the couplers between them are 4iot within the meaning of the word as used in the exemption clause of a bill of lading; N. K. Fairbank Co. v. Ry., 81 Fed. 289, 26 O. C. A. 402, 47 U. S. App. 744. The mains or pipes laid in streets to distribute gas are "part of the machinery by means of which the cor- 181 U. S. 316, 325, 16 Sup. Ct. 664, 40 L. Ed. 712. A saw is part of the machinery of a saw-mill; State v. Avery, 44,Vt. 629; and iroh and steel dies used in the manufacture of tinware are machinery; Seavey v. Ins. Co., Ill Mass. 640.

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