Legal Opinion
Autosales Gum & Chocolate Co. v. Ryede Specialty Works
District Court, W.D. New York
Decided January 6, 1915PublishedCited by 1 opinion
In Equity. Suit by the Autosales Gum & Chocolate Company and the Empire Trust Company, as trustees, against the Ryede Specialty Works, for infringement of claims,5, 6, and 24 of letters patent No. 665,977, for a coin-controlled mechanism, granted to Walter H. Pumphrey January 15, 1901. On final hearing.
1Opinion of the Court
MAYER, District Judge.
In August, 1900, when Pumphrey filed his application, the slot machine art, if it may be so called, had narrowed to a point where the field was limited to improvements directed to greater simplicity and durability.
“My invention,” said Pumphrey, “relates to coin-operated mechanism of a class adapted particularly for use in connection with ‘slot machines.’ _ In machines of this character the use of a coin for tripping a lock by its weight or the'momentum acquired in its passage through a chute ordinarily necessitates the employment of a locking mechanism, the co-operating…
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