Legal Opinion
Dodge v. Porter
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
Decided November 14, 1899No. 764PublishedCited by 4 opinions
This was a suit in equity for infringement of a patent. On final hearing.
1Opinion of the Court
COLT, Circuit Judge.
This suit relates to patent No. 497,971, granted May 23,1893, to Pardon W. Tillinghast, for a pneumatic tire. The patent describes a single-tube pneumatic tire composed of two annular rubber tubes with intervening fabric all vulcanized together, and forming a complete integral tire having all of its component parts securely united. Previous to the Tillinghast tire the double-tube pneumatic tire was in common use. It was to overcome what the patentee regarded as defects in the double-tube structure that he invented Ms single-tube tire. In defining the invention, Tillinghast…
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