National Malleable Castings Co. v. Buckeye, Malleable Iron & Coupler Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio. This is a bill to restrain infringement of the Henry Deitz patent, No. 576,-094, issued February 2, 1897, for an improvement in car couplers.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio. This is a bill to restrain infringement of the Henry Deitz patent, No. 576,-094, issued February 2, 1897, for an improvement in car couplers. The alleged infringing device is known as the “Major coupler,” and is made under three patents to J. Timms, being Nos. 679,115, 685,802, and 734,9,99. . The Deitz patent cannot be well explained without the drawings and their descriptions, as shown in the patent. We therefore set out same below. Figure 1 is plan sectional view through the coupler. Fig. 2 is a vertical…
1Opinion of the CourtLurton, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The Deitz coupler is one of a large class of patents for improvements upon the automatic car coupler of the type known as the Master Car *850Builders’ Standard. The patentee, in his specifications, says that his invention “has for its object to provide means to throw open the knuckle simultaneously with the movement -which unlocks the knuckle, and to do this with the locking-pin in the simplest and most efficient manner.”
The first claim, the only one in issue, reads as follows:
“1. Tlie combination with a draw-head, and a horizontally-swinging knuckle pivoted…
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