Alvey-Ferguson Co. v. Peter Schoenhofen Brewing Co.

SANBORN, District Judge.

Infringement suit on patents 790,776 and 790,811, issued May 23, 1905, to Benjamin H. Alvey, and assigned to plaintiff, covering conveying mechanism for carrying merchandise between different floors or parts of a building or manufactory.

Plaintiff claims that:

The patentee “was the first to conceive of a complete system adapted to handle goods of fragile and delicate nature, as well as otherwise, throughout a complete cycle of their movement; that is, to take the goods at a given .point, or at the elevator, as the case may be, elevate those goods to the desired point,…