Legal Opinion
Nutter v. Brown
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
Decided July 28, 1899No. 1,038PublishedCited by 1 opinion
This was a suit in equity by Charles A. Nutter and others against John G. Brown and others for alleged infringement of a patent for a bicycle bell.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
This suit is for infringement of letters patent No. 491,012, issued January 31, 1893, to Lewis E. Erieson, for a bicycle bell. The patent describes a bell which is sounded by bringing a friction roller into contact with the tire of the bicycle wheel. This type of bell is not new with the patentee. In the specification the inventor says;
“My Invention consists essentially in an oscillatory plate or disk carrying the striker and operating mechanism therefor; said plate or disk, by its movement, being adapted to throw its striker-operating mechanism into and ont of…
2Cited by1 opinion
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