Eby v. King
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. . .This was a bill in equity to recover damages for the infringement of reissued letters patent No. 7851, granted August 21, 1877, to the plaintiff Eby, for an improvement in cob-carriers for corn-shellers.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. . .This was a bill in equity to recover damages for the infringement of reissued letters patent No. 7851, granted August 21, 1877, to the plaintiff Eby, for an improvement in cob-carriers for corn-shellers. The object of the invention was stated to be “ the production of a cob-carrier for power corn-shellers, to receive the cobs from the spout of the sheller and deliver them in any desired direction, which is adapted to be adjusted both vertically and horizontally upon its supporting-frame and .driving…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Brown,
after stating the case, delivered the-opinion of the court.
As one of the. chief defences in this case turns upon the validity of the reissue, it becomes necessary to compare this in some detail with the original patent No. 134.790. which was granted January 14, 1873.
In this patent, figures 2, 3, and 4 of which are here given, it .is stated that b represents a disk or block, resting upon proper bearings upon the framework a, provided with a central. orifice through which pásses a shaft; that “ the inner end of the carrier-frame is pivoted to arms ee, rising from the block. b,…
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