Paramount Textile Machinery Co. v. Ipswich Mills

ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.

In this patent infringement case the defendant prevailed in the court below. The patent, No. 1,-207,494, issued on December 5, 1916, on an application filed May 2, 1913, covers an apparatus for drying and shaping stoekings. Stockings are first knit, then bleached and dyed, then put into a “whizzer,” wMeh takes out a large percentage of the water. The *573next stage, formerly, was to stretch them upon a board, foot and leg shaped; thenee they were put into a drier; when dried, they were pressed,-and then packed for shipment.

Many years ago the drying and shaping art was…