Burdett-Rowntree Mfg. Co. v. Standard Plunger Elevator Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
In Equity. Suit by the Burdiett-Rowntree Manufacturing Company against the Standard Plunger Elevator Company. On final hearing. Decree for complainant.
1Opinion of the Court
J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.
The patent in suit, No. 666,-699, was granted January 29, 1901, for an improvement in electric elevators — not in all electric elevators, however, but only in those that belong to “ * * * the type wherein, when the elevator-hoisting motor is set in operation, it will be automatically arrested when the *44car reaches a predetermined stopping point or landing. * * * ” And not in all automatic electric elevators either, for it is to be noted that the invention obviously does not apply to an elevator that carries persons — either to a passenger elevator, or to a…
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