Branson v. Kutz

BUFFINGTON, District Judge.

The appellants tiled a bill in the court below, charging respondents with infringing the first, fourth; fifth, and sixth claims of patent No. 33:5,102, granted December 29; 1885, to Edwin E. Branson for a knitting machine. The action of (hat court in dismissing the hill (.105 Fed. 974) on the ground of non: infringement is here assigned in error. After due consideration, we are of opinion there was no error, and the decree below should be affirmed. The patent concerns devices for mechanically shifting the needles of circular knitting machines in order to knit…