Miehle Printing Press & Mfg. Co. v. Whitlock Printing Press & Mfg. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from .the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here on appeal from a decree of the District Court, Southern District of New York, dismissing the bill. The suit was brought for infringement of United States patent No. 664,151, granted December 18, 1900 (application filed January 21, 1898), to Willis K. Hodgman for a mechanical movement.
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
[1] Although the patented device is entitled broadly as a “mechanical movement,” the specification states that it is poiticularly adapted for use in a certain type of printing press; it can be sustained only as an improvement on the mechanism of that type of printing press, as the actual movement of the part of the mechanism with which it is concerned is effected by means well known in the mechanic art.
The gist of the invention, as the patentee states, consists essentially in the use of a plane-faced actúa ting-block and means for maintaining it in proper position,…
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