Tin Decorating Co. of Baltimore v. Metal Package Corp.

THACHER, District Judge.

The circumstances under which the alleged invention described in patent No. 14,393 was conceived and developed are of controlling importance. Prior to his employment with the defendant; company, in December, 1910, the patentee George was employed by the American Stopper Company, in whose plant he had seen the hand process of inserting pin-tles in tin packages. Believing that an automatic machine might be devised to do this work, he constructed, in his own home and in his spare time, a crude model, made of wood whittled out .with a penknife. Thereafter George was asked…