Heap v. Greene
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. This was a suit in equity by Charles Heap against Henry S. Greene and others for the alleged infringement of letters patent No. 377,151, issued January 31, 1888, to Henry Nicholas Grossclin, Fils, for a machine for napping cloth. The circuit court dismissed the bill (75 Fed. 405), and complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
All the questions involved in this case, except that of infringement, were disposed of by v. in Heap v. Suffolk Mills, 27 C. C. A. 316, 82 Fed. 449. In that case three claims were in controversy, while the suit at bar relates only to claim 1 of letters patent No. 377,151, granted January 31, 1888. This claim is as follows:
‘In a gig-mill, the combination, with a rotary drum consisting of heads, a. shaft, and a series of card or teasling rollers journaled upon said heads, and provided with pulleys at their projecting ends, of a driving belt applied to each set of said…
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