Weeks v. United States

GREEN, Judge.

Plaintiff in this case is a manufacturer of a patented device intended to be attached to the manifold of carburetors used in connection with internal-combustion engines. The purpose of the device was to insure the more complete reatomizing or vaporizing of the fuel used in such engines, thereby making it easier to start tbe engine and insuring more perfect combustion, by which tbe amount of power which might be obtained from the engine would be' increased. Tbe device was primarily designed for use on engines for airplanes, but is equally adapted for use on any kind of a…