American Sulphite Pulp Co. v. Howland Falls Pulp Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maine. This was a bill in equity by the American Sulphite Pulp Company against the Howland Falls Pulp Company for alleged infringement of reissue patent No. 11,282 (original No. 445,235), for an improvement in wood-pulp digesters. The circuit court dismissed the bill (70 Fed. 986), and the complainant has appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
ALDRICH, District Judge.
This cause involves the validity of a patent for an invention relating to improvements in the construction of vessels ordinarily called “digesters,” and, as a leading feature of', the improved construction, provides for what the complainant calls a “protective lining” for the shells thereof. These digesters are used in the sulphite wood-pulp process, and may be either stationary or rotary, and are constructed with an outer shell of iron. The structures-are large and expensive, varying in size (sometimes 15 feet in diameter by 30 in length), and are designed to receive…
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