Benbow-Brammer Mfg. Co. v. Richmond Cedar Works

KOHLSAAT, Circuit Judge.

This suit is brought to restrain defendants from infringing claim 1 of patent No. 535,465, granted to John Schro.eder, March 12* 1895, for new and useful improvements in “means for- operating washing machines.” . Claim 1. reads as follows:

*431“(I) An operating shaft having a rotary reciprocating motion, a cylinder placed upon the. shaft and having a sliding movement thereon, and through which cylinder motion is alone communicated to the shaft, and a double row of teeth or cogs upon the cylinder extending at an angle to the shaft, combined with a driving shaft having means…