Covert v. Travers Bros. Co.

TOWNSEND, District Judge.

To the bill of complaint herein, alleging infringement of the first claim of patent No. 208,157, issued to complainant September 18, 1878, for an improvement in rope clamps, defendant, at final hearing, has interposed nine defenses, which will be considered and disposed of in their order.

*569Said claim is as follows:

“The herein-described method of connecting one part of a rope adjacent to another part, or the ends of two ropes, by clamping the same with one or more open rings of metal, under extreme pressure, as set forth.”

Oil demurrer, Judge Coxe Reid that the second…