United States Fastener Co. v. Stahel
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
Suit in equity to restrain alleged infringement of United States letters patent No. 565,276, dated August 4, 1896, to Fleazer Kempshall, assignor, to Theopolus King, trustee, for “button,” and for an accounting.
1Opinion of the Court
RAY, District Judge.
The patent in suit relates to that class of buttons known as “snap fasteners”; that is, you have a button or button-head with a socket into which you insert, and with which you connect, usually, an eyelet or some similar device, having a flange which connects the button or button-head to one flap or part of a garment or glove. Into this socket you push, usually, a resilient stud member attached to the other flap of the garment or glove, thus fastening the two flaps together. The eyelet in the socket of the button-head may he resilient, and the head of the stud member may…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- United States Fastener Co. v. BradleyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1906