American Fruit Machinery Co. v. Robinson Mach. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Suit in equity by the Robinson Machine Company and others against the American Fruit Machinery Company and others. Decree for complainants, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
LANNING, Circuit Judge.
The patent in suit is No. 809,582 for an improvement in machines for peeling vegetables. The Circuit Court held it valid and infringed. Hence this appeal by the defendants.
The operative part of the machine consists of a containing vessel, into which potatoes or other vegetables may be placed, with a rotary disk in its bottom. As the disk rotates horizontally, it performs abrading, impelling, and turning functions. The abrading function is that by which the skin is removed from the potato or vegetable operated on; the abrasion being caused by the striated surface of the…
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