Travers v. American Cordage Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
This was a suit in equity by Vincent P. Travers against the American Cordage Company for infringement of certain patents for improvements in the art of making hammocks. This suit is based upon two letters patent, granted to Albert O. Rood, as assignor to the complainant, for improvements in the art of making hammocks. The first of these, No. 277,161, relates to a 'new process of making hammock bodies.
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This was a suit in equity by Vincent P. Travers against the American Cordage Company for infringement of certain patents for improvements in the art of making hammocks. This suit is based upon two letters patent, granted to Albert O. Rood, as assignor to the complainant, for improvements in the art of making hammocks. The first of these, No. 277,161, relates to a 'new process of making hammock bodies. It is dated May 8, 1883. The application was filed July 15, 1882. The specification says: “This invention relates to hammocks and to the art or process of making the bodies of hammocks; and it…
1Opinion of the Court
COXE, District Judge.
The earlier patent, No. 277,161, relates to a new process of making the bodies of hammocks. Prior to the invention this had been done by weaving the thread in both directions between the supporting frames. The operator, provided with a shuttle on which the thread was wound, began at one end of the selvage and interlooped this thread with the thread attached to the selvage until she reached the opposite end of the frame when she repeated the same interlacing process back again, and so on from one end of the frame to the other, until the hammock body was completed. This…
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