Grubman Engineering & Mfg. Co. v. Goldberger

L. HAND, Circuit Judge. ,

The reissue patent is for an eye mounting for doll’s eyes. The deviee disclosed is to carry the eye-shells whieh fit into the eye-sockets of the doll’s head and whieh must be pivoted within it so that the eyes shall close when the doll lies flat and open when it stands upright. Such devices had been very common for years, as every one knows, and the patent was for an improvement in what had gone before. There had been trouble in fitting each shell properly to its socket when both were rigidly fixed upon a bar, because the sockets were not always alike, or the same…