Washburn & Moen Manuf'g Co. v. Haish

This is a motion for a rehearing for the alleged reason that the three re-issued patents considered in the former opinion*—the Hunt, No. 6,976, Kelly, No. 6,902, and Glidden, No. 6,913—are invalid as not being for the same inventions as their respective originals.

In order to give a proper construction to these patents and their re-issues we must consider the state of the art, and the object which the inventors proposed to accomplish. Wires had been used for fencing for many years before the date of these patents, and they were made single or double, of single' wires or of single wires twisted…