Hammond v. Paige-Ohio Co.

MOORMAN, Circuit Judge.

The patent ip suit, Hammond, No. 1,296,182, issued March 4, 1919, upon application filed November 1,1917, relates to an instrument board for automobiles. Its solo object, as stated in the specifications, is “to provide a construction for instrument boards in which all of the measuring and indicating instruments are covered and protected by a single transparent plate, thus obviating the necessity of providing an independent crystal or glass and corresponding bezel for each individual instrument.” The first two claims of the patent, broadly speaking, call for a…