Reed Propeller Co. v. United States

Plaintiff seeks to recover for alleged infringement of two patents granted on application of Sylvanus A. Reed for improvements in “aeronautical propellers.”

The first Reed patent is directed to certain principles involving the utilization of the effect of centrifugal force in •order to give the propeller blades the rigidity necessary to ■resist the stresses in the blades. The second Reed patent is in general similar to the first patent, but relates more particularly to metal propellers and the use of certain alloys for their construction. Plaintiff alleges that both patents are infringed by…