National Progress Bunching-Machine Co. v. John R. Williams Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
In Equity. This is a bill in equity filed to restrain the defendant from infringing letters patent No. 331,676, granted December 1, 1885, to Nicholas H. Borgfeldt and Adolph C. Schütz, for an improved cigar-bunching machine.
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In Equity. This is a bill in equity filed to restrain the defendant from infringing letters patent No. 331,676, granted December 1, 1885, to Nicholas H. Borgfeldt and Adolph C. Schütz, for an improved cigar-bunching machine. The invention relates to a machine designed to produce automatically the inner part, or bunch, of a cigar: “The machine is adapted to produce such a bunch with a filler of scrap-tobacco, to measure the proper quantity of the scrap-tobacco for each bunch, to transport the same to the binder, to press the filler into the binder, and then to roll the binder around the…
1Opinion of the CourtCoxe, J.
The machine covered by the ninth claim of the patent is designed to make a cigar hunch — which is all of a cigar minus the. outer wrapper — from scrap-tobacco. The tobacco is placed in a large receptacle or cylinder which throws out accurately measured quantities, through a chute, into a vertically movable funnel, each dose being sufficient for one hunch. The funnel is provided with a plunger which descends upon the tobacco and compacts it into a form approximating a cigar. It is then delivered upon an apron on which a leaf of tobacco called a “hinder,” has been placed and is rolled, by means…
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