Enterprise Manuf'g Co. v. Snow

SHIPMAN, Circuit Judge.

The complainant brought its bill in equity before the circuit court for the district of Connecticut to restrain the defendants from the alleged infringement of claims 1, 4, and 5 of letters patent No. 271,398, granted on January 30, 1883, to John G-. Baker, for an improved machine for cutting up plastic substances; From the decree of the circuit court, which dismissed the bill (72 Fed. 262), the complainants appealed.

The claims which are in controversy are as follows:

“(1) The combination, in a machine for cutting up plastic or yielding substances, of the following…