Dunkley Co. v. Central California Canneries

McCAMANT, Circuit Judge.

The points at issue between the parties have chiefly to do with the scope of plaintiff’s patent, the effect of the litigation in which its validity was adjudged, and the extent of the master’s authority in passing on the questions in dispute.

In plaintiff’s machine the peaches are subjected to a bath in a hot solution of lyo for the purpose of disintegrating the skin. They are then delivered to a conveyor, on which they pass between rotary brushes, which turn the poaches so that each peach is subjected to forcible jets of water, which wash off the disintegrated skin.…