Legal Opinion
Parlin & Orendorff Co. v. Moline Plow Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 26, 1898No. 500PublishedCited by 3 opinions
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. This was a suit in equity by the Moline Plow Company against: the Purlin & Orendorff Company and others,for alleged infringement of a patent for an improvement in corn planters. The circuit court rendered a decree for the complainant (84 Fed. 349), from which the defendants have appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
BUNN, District Judge.
This suit was brought for the infringement of the first and second claims of letters patent No. 326,449, dated September 15, 1885, granted to Levi J. Odell for an improvement in corn planters. These claims are:
“(1) The combination, with the corn planter having seed tubes, of the valves In the tubes, the rock shaft connected to the valves and having the bent arms, the bracket arms secured to the planter and having the heads, the fulcrnmed levers and guiding sheaves secured to the heads, the springs hearing on the levers, and said levers being connected to the arms of the…
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