Legal Opinion
Orrison v. C. Hoffberger Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided July 26, 1951No. 6276PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOPER, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit for infringement of patent No. 2,118,796 issued May 24, 1938 to Kelvin T. Orrison upon an application filed January 31, 1938. The patent covers a free-flowing discrete, crushed ice product suitable for beverages and a process for its manufacture, which comprises crushing a block of ice into pieces of various size, including snow, and subjecting the mixture to a vibrating screening motion to separate the mixture into one portion that consists of snow and other portions which consist of free-flowing lumps of ice. The patent has not been put to a commercial…
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