Draper v. Wattles

LOWELL, District-Judge.

The complainants [George Draper and others] allege that the respondent [Joseph W. Wattles] infringes three patents. The first and principal patent is reissue No. 6,380, granted in 1873, the original being No. 89,025, dated in 1869, for an improvement by William T. Carroll in spinning-frames, described as an improved ring for such frames, composed of a thin cylindrical body or annulus, of substantially uniform thickness, and having races projecting from each end of the annulus.

The specification describes and illustrates the mode of constructing and using this ring. It…