Houghton v. Whitin Machine Works
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts.
1Opinion of the Court
ALDRICH, District Judge.
The patent in suit relates to cotton manufacturing, and the invention in question is for an improved thread-guide for spinning or twisting machines, and for an improved form of thread-guide support. It is a reissue patent, granted August 23, 1904, and ■ numbered 12,263. The original patent was granted March 1, 1904, and numbered 753,577, and the application for reissue was filed July 16, 1904, about 4j£ months after the original patent was granted.
Claim 4 of the reissue patent is precisely like claim 1 of the original patent of March 1, 1904. The proofs are only…
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