Consolidated Window Glass Co. v. Window Glass Mach. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeals and Cross-Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania; W. 11. Seward Thomson, Judge. Suits by the Window Glass Machine Company and another against the Consolidated Window Glass Company, against the Pennsylvania Window Glass Company, and against the Kane Glass Company, which were consolidated.
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Appeals and Cross-Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania; W. 11. Seward Thomson, Judge. Suits by the Window Glass Machine Company and another against the Consolidated Window Glass Company, against the Pennsylvania Window Glass Company, and against the Kane Glass Company, which were consolidated. From a decree for complainants, but which denied some of the relief sought, the several defendants appeal, and complainants assign cross-errors.
1Opinion of the Court
BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.
This case concerns window glass, a product which enters into practically every home and structure in the country. It covers a great pioneer step in this universal art, when to its customary and time-used method of blowing such window glass by human skill, “man-blown glass,” there was added the mechanical exactness and increased production of “machine-drawn glass.” That step gave to a machine and a mechanical process the equivalent of the fine skill of the most skillful of artisans, and of artisans who dealt with the most difficult to handle of products, viz., molten…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Siemens v. Chambers & McKee Glass Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Pennsylvania · 1892
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- Hartford-Empire Co. v. Hazel-Atlas Glass Co.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1932
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