Bleser v. Baldwin
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District 'of Illinois. t Suit in equity by Frederick F. Baldwin against Jacob Bleser. Decree for complainant, and defendant appeals. Appellee was granted two patents for improvements in acetylene gas generating lamps.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District 'of Illinois. t Suit in equity by Frederick F. Baldwin against Jacob Bleser. Decree for complainant, and defendant appeals. Appellee was granted two patents for improvements in acetylene gas generating lamps. The prior one was granted August 28, 1900, as number 656,874, and the other was granted May 22, 1906, and numbered 821,580. This suit was instituted to restrain infringement of claims 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 10, of the first-named patent, and claims 1 and 4 of the second-named patent, on January 21, 1909. The…
1Opinion of the CourtKohesaat, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] It was not new in acetylene gas lamps to so adjust the pipe and needle or stem running therethrough as that the latter should move auto-’ matically up and down within the pipe, and thereby clear it from accumulations. This was attained in the Handshy patent, where the pipe moved up and down the stem, being the reverse of the movement of the stem and pipe in suit.
it was new to claim the-regulation of water supply by means of gas pressure upon the column of water in the water supply tube. No reason is perceived, however, why the same result could not have…
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