Royal Metal Mfg. Co. v. Art Metal Works
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here on appeal from a decree dismissing a bill for infringement of complainant’s patent, No. 34,357, granted April 9, 1901, to Isaac Lowenthal, for a design for a belt.
1Per curiam
We concur in the opinion of the court below that the complainant has no ground for equitable relief. The specifications of the patent and the admissions of complainant’s expert show that the essential element of the so-called design is a mechanical construction consisting in the attachment of the fabric of a belt to triangular metal front parts at such an angle that, when the parts are engaged, they will cause the front portion of the belt to dip in a downward direction. In these circumstances, it is immaterial that such an *779arrangement was old, and that, even if the patent could be construed…
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