Lorraine v. Townsend

JAMES, District Judge.

Plaintiffs allege infringement of claims 17, 18, and 19 of patent No. 1,373,664, issued April 5, 1921, and reissue No. 15,220, of November 8, 1921. The patent covers a device or meehanieal contrivance by which gas may be separated from oil delivered from a producing well. Defendants have such a device, which they claim is protected by patent No. 1,269,134, dated June 11, 1918, issued to M. J. Trumble. Plaintiffs contend that a form of the defendants’ device, differing from that described in the Trumble patent, is being manufactured by defendants, and that it is an…