Greist Mfg. Co. v. Parsons
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Appellant unsuccessfully sought to hold appellee for infringement of the first, third, and fifth claims of letters patent No. 324,261, August 11, 1885, to Johnston, appellant’s assignor.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Appellant unsuccessfully sought to hold appellee for infringement of the first, third, and fifth claims of letters patent No. 324,261, August 11, 1885, to Johnston, appellant’s assignor. The circuit court ruled, in substance, that the claims, if valid, were limited by the prior art to the precise structure shown in the drawings and described in the specification, and that, so construed, they were not infringed by appellee’s device. The claims in suit and a part of the…
1Opinion of the CourtBaker, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The patent relates to alleged improvements in sewing-machine attachments for making ruffles, plaits, or gathers. In the operation of these attachments, as a genus, a steel blade moves back and forth near the needle in the direction of the feed; levers are so connected that the up-and-down motion of the needle-bar is converted into the to-and-fro movement of the ruffling-blade; the two pieces of cloth to be sewn together are placed under the needle, with the ruffling blade in contact *118with the upper piece; and as the needle rises out of the cloth the…
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