Deitel v. Cohen

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

The specifications recite that the “invention relates to containers, and more particularly, to novelty containers and vanity eases.” The patentee’s idea was to produce a box, iu the preferred form simulating a hook, by a process of manufacture which would require fewer tools and dies and so result in cheaper prodnetion costs than were obtained in the construction of similar articles under the prior art. The novelty of the combination was the building up of a box around a skeleton frame made of two parts, each stamped from a piece of sheet metal, and the two hinged…