Lafferty Mfg. Co. v. Acme Ry. Signal & Mfg. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District, of Illinois. The bill is to restrain infringement of letters patent No. 474,718, issued May 10,1892, to J. H. Bevington, for improvement in torpedoes. The torpedoes meant are the detonating class used on metal rails as signals that there is danger ahead.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District, of Illinois. The bill is to restrain infringement of letters patent No. 474,718, issued May 10,1892, to J. H. Bevington, for improvement in torpedoes. The torpedoes meant are the detonating class used on metal rails as signals that there is danger ahead. The decree of the Circuit Court held the patent to be good and valid; appellee to be the sole and exclusive owner thereof; and that defendant had infringed claims one to five, inclusive; enjoining the defendants from further infringement, and ordering an accounting.…
1Opinion of the CourtGrosscup, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts). Bevington’s device is a shell or case having a base part of metal, circular in form, over which is laid, almost, but not quite, to its circumferential edge or rim, paper or some analogous fabric, light, soft and flexible. Over this is placed a dome of paper, preferably water proofed; whose edges join the edge of the paper lying over the metal base, the whole being secured together, after the explosive is inserted, by means of an annular flange formed of the outer rim of the metal base turned over upon the outer edge or rim of the paper constituting the cover and the…
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- Gardner v. HerzSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Celluloid Manuf'g Co. v. TowerU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts · 1885
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- Lafferty Mfg. Co. v. Acme Ry., Signal & Mfg. Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1906
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