Legal Opinion
In re Coffield
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided February 7, 1921No. 1392PublishedCited by 5 opinions
Appeal from.the Commissioner of Patents. Application by James L. Coffield for a patent for improvement on clothes wringers. From a decision of the Commissioner of Patents, rejecting two claims, the applicant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
VAN ORSDED, Associate Justice.
[1] Applicant, Coffield, appeals from the decision of the Commissioner of Patents, rejecting the following claims for 'improvements in clothes wringers:
“1. In the clothes wringer, the combination with the wringer rolls, of a drain board and clothes guide rigidly mounted in the wringer frame below said rolls and extended a substantial distance on each side of the wringer frame to form a clothes guide, and a reversible water shutter pivotally mounted between said drainboard and clothes guide and said rolls to direct the water to one side of the said drain board and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Loom Co. v. HigginsSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
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