In re Blandy
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Statement of the Case. The alleged invention in this case consisted in providing a portable steam-engine with a hollow bed-plate, substantially in the form of an eight-inch pipe about eight feet in length, which was attached by feet or saddles to the side of the boiler.
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Statement of the Case. The alleged invention in this case consisted in providing a portable steam-engine with a hollow bed-plate, substantially in the form of an eight-inch pipe about eight feet in length, which was attached by feet or saddles to the side of the boiler. The working parts of the engine were attached to the outside of this pipe by suitable flanges, and were thus removed from contact with the boiler, thereby preventing the injurious effects occasioned by the unequal contraction and expansion of the boiler-plates. The application was rejected upon references showing various kinds…
1Opinion of the CourtMorsell, J.
Appeal from the decision of the Commissioner of Patents refusing to grant a patent to said H. & F. I. L. Blandy on their application for an improvement in portable steam-engines.
The claim as amended is described in the following terms : ‘ ‘ Having thus described our improvement, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by letters-patent, is the application to portable steam-engines of a hollow bed-plate, in the mannei; substantially as described, for the support and attachment of the operative parts of the engine, whereby the latter in working is rendered independent of the contraction and…
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