Epps v. United Box Board & Paper Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. This cause comes here upon appeal from an Interlocutory decree of the United States Circuit Court for the Northern District of New York, on final hearing, adjudicating the validity, and infringement by defendant, of claims one and two of complainant’s patent No. 417,451, .granted to Edmund Victory, December 17, 1889, for a pulp screening machine.
1Opinion of the Court
TOWNSEND, Circuit Judge.
The art to which the patent relates is that of separating, by means of sieves known as screen-plates, the fibrous particles and impurities in paper pulp, and of breaking up matted masses of the fibre. The screen-plates are slotted, and in the *870machines herein discussed reciprocating plates, called bellows-plates, form the bottom of a chamber below the screen-plates.
The construction of the Victory screen is accurately explained in complainant’s brief as follows:
“The machine has a supporting frame with a rectangular body-frame which has the series of parallel cross-bars…
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