Hobbs v. Beach
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT. This was a Bill in equity by Fred H. Beach against Clarence W. Hobbs and Kichard Sugden, now deceased, (lidióse estate is represented by his executors,) doing business under the name of the Hobbs Manufacturing Company, for an injunction and a recovery of damages for the infringement of reissued letters patent No. 11,107, dated May 26, 1891, for a “Machine for attaching Stays to the Corners of Boxes.”
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT. This was a Bill in equity by Fred H. Beach against Clarence W. Hobbs and Kichard Sugden, now deceased, (lidióse estate is represented by his executors,) doing business under the name of the Hobbs Manufacturing Company, for an injunction and a recovery of damages for the infringement of reissued letters patent No. 11,107, dated May 26, 1891, for a “Machine for attaching Stays to the Corners of Boxes.” In his specification the patentee makes the following statements : “ That it has been customary heretofore in making paper or…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. .1 itstice Brown,
after making the above statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
The art of making paper boxes requires that the better class, of square or other angular shapes, be stayed or reinforced at the comers, Avhere a union of the sides and ends is to be brought about by the application of adhesive strips of paper or muslin placed upon the .joints, and the corners thereby strengthened, before receiving their final covering of paper. Prior to. the Beach invention, the work of thus strengthening the corners of •paper boxes by these adhesive strips had always been performed in a…
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