Fireball Gas Tank & Illuminating Co. v. Commercial Acetylene Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. . Rill by the Commercial Acetylene Company and others against the Fireball Gas Tank & Illuminating Company and others. Decree for complainants, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from an order which granted an interlocutory injunction against the infringement by the defendant below of claims 1, 2, and 5 of letters patent No. 664,383, issued to Claude & Hess on December 25, 1900, for a combination of elements which constituted an apparatus for storing and distributing acetylene gas. The thing sought by the inventors was an apparatus by means of which acetylene gas, which in its normal state is inflammable and explosive, could he safely inclosed, stored, and, if desired, transported in a reservoir or tank to the place where it…
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