Standard Measuring Machine Co. v. Teague

The plaintiffs bring this suit, for the infringement of two patents. The first and more important patent is No. 194,743, granted to Tapley and Porter, August 28, 1877, entitled “improvement in devices for automatically measuring the superficial area of sides of leather,” etc., and is described as consisting, first, in the use, in combination with a weighing scale, and an index operated thereby, of a series of weights suspended above the platform of said scale at points equidistant from each other, and each representing a given fractional part of a square foot of area, and adapted to be…