Faries Mfg. Co. v. George W. Brown & Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. The bill is to restrain infringement of letters patent, No. 328,152, issued October 20th, 1885, to Joseph C. Barlow, for improvements in wire for check-row corn planters.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. The bill is to restrain infringement of letters patent, No. 328,152, issued October 20th, 1885, to Joseph C. Barlow, for improvements in wire for check-row corn planters. The substantial part of the patent, with its drawings, is as follows: “This invention pertains to 'certain improvements in the construction or form of what are technically known as ‘knots,’ attached to or forming part of the check-row wire, and serving to actuate the planting mechanism; and it consists in the…
1Opinion of the CourtGrosscup, Circuit Judge
In the planting and cultivation of corn, it is desirable that the hills be spaced equally apart, in order that the corn may be cultivated between the rows in both directions. This spacing was formerly accomplished by running furrows across the field in both directions from three to four feet apart, the intersections of the furrows being the places where the corn was dropped. In the earlier planters, the seed dropping device was operated by a lever, rocked by a man or boy riding upon the planter, who operated the lever so as- to drop the corn as' nearly as possible at the intersections. This…
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