Gray Telephone Pay Station Co. v. Baird Mfg. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit' Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Suit in equity by the Gray Telephone Pay Station Company against: the Baird Manufacturing Company. Decree for defendant, and complainant appeals.
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Appeal from the Circuit' Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Suit in equity by the Gray Telephone Pay Station Company against: the Baird Manufacturing Company. Decree for defendant, and complainant appeals. Appellant filed its bill below for an injunction restraining defendant from infringement of patent No. 593,720, granted to W. Gray, November 16,■*1897, for a telephone toll station, and claim 1 of patent No. 598,610, granted to the same party February 8, 1898, for a coin-controlled telephone pay station. The former patent has but one…
1Opinion of the CourtKohesaat, Circuit Judge
It was old in the telephone toll-station art to employ means for imparting signals from the pay-box to the transmitter of a telephone. This was attained in several ways. It would be electrically effected by the employment of a coin in making or breaking the circuit, thereby at once advising the central office, or by operating the signal device from the central office, or by depositing a coin in the channel provided for that purpose, so arranged as to cause a bell or gong to sound. We have to do only with this latter device.
It seems to have been assumed that the signal could be conveyed to the…
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