Legal Opinion
Engineer Co. v. Hotel Astor
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided October 17, 1914No. 5-203PublishedCited by 10 opinions
In Equity. Suit by the Engineer Company against the Hotel Astor, William C. Muschenhcim, its president, and William C. Muschenheim, individually, for infringement of letters patent Nos. 817,438 and 826,-349, for mechanism and method for regulating furnaces, granted to Embury McRean. On final hearing. Decree for complainant.
1Opinion of the Court
HOUGH, District Judge.
[1] The patents in suit, considered together, embody certain ideas of Mr. McRean concerning the regulation of furnaces. The earlier patent claims a combination and the later a method, but both reveal the same thing as the fruit of the paten-tee’s efforts.
*780The sixth claim of No.817,438 may be thus analyzed:
“In combination with a furnace, a blower, means for varying the supply of air to the furnace from- said blower in quantities graduated between the extremes (this signifies that the patentee regulates his blower according to and by means of the pressure of steam in the…
2Cited by10 opinions
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