Bonnette Arc Lawn Sprinkler Co. v. Koehler
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio. This was a suit in equity by the Bonnette Arc Lawn Sprinkler Company against Frederick E. Koehler and Isaac Harter for alleged infringement of a patent for a lawn sprinkler. The circuit court entered a decree dismissing the bill, and the complainant has appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
TAFT, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal in a patent suit from a decree dismissing the bill on the ground that the defendant’s device does not infringe the patent sued on. Complainant and appellant is the owner, by assignment, of patent No. 461,415, issued to T. C. Bonnette, for a lawn sprinkler, October 20, 1891. It is said by the inventor in his specifications to be of that class of sprinklers in which a jet of water under pressure is distributed in the form of a spray over the lawn by rapidly revolving blades. One object of the invention, and the only one of importance in this case, is stated…
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