Loew Supply & Mfg. Co. v. Fred Miller Brewing Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. ■ Appellant’s bill on account of the alleged infringement of letters patent No. 690,563, January 7, 1902, to Cobb, assignor, for improvements in bottle-washing machines, was dismissed for want of equity.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. ■ Appellant’s bill on account of the alleged infringement of letters patent No. 690,563, January 7, 1902, to Cobb, assignor, for improvements in bottle-washing machines, was dismissed for want of equity. The general nature of the Cobb machine can be read from the accompanying drawing: The claims alleged to have been infringed are these: “(1) In bottle-washing machines, a solution-tank, an endless flexible carrier, and a series of rolling supports over which said carrier travels and is reversed in…
1Opinion of the CourtBaker, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts). Goetz shows a bottle-washing machine which “consists essentially of two tanks for containing the liquids, endless chains having connected therewith bottle-holding devices, and extending within a tank containing the cleaning solution, and thence upward above the same, means for automatically releasing the bottles, and a suitable conveyor to receive the bottles and convey the same into another tank containing water or other suitable liquid for removing the cleaning solution.” The bottle-holding device is a hole in the carrier plate through which the neck of the bottle…
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