Legal Opinion
Hill v. Sawyer
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
Decided June 17, 1887PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtCoxe, J.
This is an equity action for infringement founded upon letters patent No. 185,862, granted to the complainant January 2,1877, for an improvement in dating-stamps. The object of the inventor is to provide a cheap hand-stamp with which the year, month, and day may be printed to represent any given date. The invention consists of a stamp the case of which is made in two parts. A series of rolls are arranged within the case, and there is a fixed bridge at its lower end. Endless rubber bands pass around these rolls, and also around or over the bridge. By turning the rolls in one direction, the…
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