Planing-Machine Co. v. Keith
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Strong
The bill of The Woodbury Patent Planing-Machine Company, the appellant, is founded upon letters-patent granted to Joseph P. Woodbury on the 29th of April, 1873, for an alleged “ new and useful improvement in planingpnachines,” numbered 138,462. The specification declares the object of the improve ment to be presenting tbe material to tbe cutter in sucb a manner as both to counteract, as far as practicable, tbe fluttering or tremor caused by the successive blows of the .knives, and the consequent wavy and uneven surface of the planed work, and at the same time to overcome more perfectly than…
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