Graham v. Geneva Lake Crawford Manuf'g Co.

Dyer, D. J.

This is a bill in equity to restrain the alleged infringement of a patent issued to Alvaro B. Graham, February 11, 1868, for an improvement in harvesters. The complainant is assignee of the patentee, and there are .involved in the present controversy the first and second claims of the patent. These claims are as follows:

“ (1) The combination, as set forth, in a harvester, of the finger-beam with the gearing carriage, by means of the vibratable link, the draught-rod, and the two swivel-joints, M and Mso that the finger-beam may both rise and fall at either end, and rock 1 forward…