Faultless Rubber Co. v. Star Rubber Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio; Wm. U. Day, Judge. Suit in equity by the Faultless Rubber Company against the Star Rubber Company. Decree for defendant, and complainant appeals. The Faultless Rubber Company owns patent No. 926,011, issued to it June 22, 1909, as the assignee of Thomas W. Miller. The subject-matter is a nipple for nursing bottles.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio; Wm. U. Day, Judge. Suit in equity by the Faultless Rubber Company against the Star Rubber Company. Decree for defendant, and complainant appeals. The Faultless Rubber Company owns patent No. 926,011, issued to it June 22, 1909, as the assignee of Thomas W. Miller. The subject-matter is a nipple for nursing bottles. The specification states as one of the objects “to prevent any contraction of the opening from the body portion into the mouthpiece of the nipple under compression of the same.” The claim said to…
1Opinion of the CourtDenison, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] It was common to find in such nipples, and in combination in one device, a mouthpiece and a neck and an intermediate body portion flaring from the neck to receive the bead of the bottle neck. The invention in this case must be found, if at all, in adding to this combination two features: First, that this intermediate, flaring body portion should have its upper wall projecting inwardly at an acute angle from its point of greatest width so as to form a substantially flat wall; and, second, that the opening from the body portion into the mouthpiece should…
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