Concrete Appliances Co. v. Gomery

BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.

In principle, this case concerns the use of gravity in conveying mobile substances from an elevated common central point to various working points; in application, to the distribution of “wet” or “mush” concrete. Referring to the above general principle of conveying mobile matter by gravity, we have the age-worn practice of lifting water by power to a reservoir and by gravity distributing it through conduits to a fixed point or by hose to diverse points; in other words, the problem of lifting it to a gravity-sufficient height, of there accumulating it in storage,…