Fay v. Mason
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of New York. This cause comes here by appeal from a decree sustaining the validity, and ordering an injunction against infringement, of complainant’s reissued patent No. 11,664, dated May 17, 1898, and patent No. 678,949, dated July 23, 1901, for machines for ironing edges of collars and cuffs.
1Opinion of the Court
TOWNSEND, Circuit Judge.
The record fails to show that, prior to the alleged inventions of the patents in suit, any machine had been constructed which would smooth the rough edges of collars and cuffs. The complainant testified that, as a result of some months of inquiry and investigation throughout the United States, he “became satisfied that there was no such machine or device used; that laundrymen did not make any-effort at all to get rid of said wire edge or saw edge upon collars and cuffs.” He constructed such a machine. It was operative and commercially successful, and its construction…
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