International Time Recording Co. v. Dey
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. This is an appeal, by the defendants, from a decree of the Circuit Court for the' Northern District of New York, sustaining eight claims of letters patent No. 528,223, granted October 30, 1894, to D. M. Cooper for a workman’s time recorder.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. This is an appeal, by the defendants, from a decree of the Circuit Court for the' Northern District of New York, sustaining eight claims of letters patent No. 528,223, granted October 30, 1894, to D. M. Cooper for a workman’s time recorder. In the specifications the inventor says: “My present invention relates to machines known as workmen’s time recorders, and it has for its object to produce a form of apparatus by means of which a workman personally records upon his individual card or time check the…
1Opinion of the CourtCoxe, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts). A description of the complicated mechanism of the patent in all its minute details, even were it possible to give such a description in the absence of drawings, will serve no useful purpose.
The Prior Art.
Prior to the Cooper invention, in May, 1894, there had been a number of time recording machines upon the market, several having achieved considerable popularity.
One of the most successful was a machine which recorded automatically the time of the workman upon a single strip of paper located within the machine, the record being transcribed from this strip to the time…
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