Royer v. Coupe
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
Action at Law for the infringement of letters patent No. 77,920, is-' sued to the plaintiffs, May 12, 1868, for a machine for treating hides. The machine described in the patent consists of a vertical shaft, surrounded by a vertical circle of pins or rollers, constituting a crib. The shaft contains slots, and set-screws projecting into the slots.
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Action at Law for the infringement of letters patent No. 77,920, is-' sued to the plaintiffs, May 12, 1868, for a machine for treating hides. The machine described in the patent consists of a vertical shaft, surrounded by a vertical circle of pins or rollers, constituting a crib. The shaft contains slots, and set-screws projecting into the slots. A disk-shaped weight, grooved on its edges to fit the vertical pins or rollers, and having a hole through its center through which the vertical shaft projects upward, is shown and described as filling the entire cavity at the upper end of the crib.…
1Opinion of the Court
Carpenter, J.,
(charging jury.) It may be useful for you to understand, in a general way, what is the nature of these rights that are called patent-rights, and of which this claim which is brought here is one. You know to how large an extent the progress of the country has depended upon new and useful inventions in the mechanical and other useful arts, and the attention of the congress was early turned, in pursuance of the constitution, to the consideration of what methods ought to be ado¡3ted, in the first place, to protect the rights of inventors, and, in the second place,—which is equally…
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