Beach v. Inman
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York
This was a suit in equity by Fred H. Beach against Horace Inman and others for alleged infringement of reissued letters patent No. 11,167, for a machine for attaching stays to the corners of paper or strawboard boxes. The case was heard on a motion for a preliminary injunction. The patent was sustained in prior litigation by both the circuit court and the circuit court of appeals. See 63 Fed. 597,18 C. O. A. 165, and 71 Fed. 420.
1Opinion of the Court
GOXE, District Judge.
The first three claims of the Beach patent are involved. That the defendants’ machine contains all the elements of the combinations of these claims, save one, is conceded. It does not, it is said, have the upper clamping die of the patent. In a narrow, technical sense this is true. The defendants’ die moves horizontally instead of vertically, and has a roller pressure instead of that of a plunger. Both reciprocate; both cut off the stay-strip and both press it upon the box comer with sufficient force to make it stick. One has a rolling progressive cut; in the other the…
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