Wollensak v. Sargent
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF IRE UNITED STATES FOR , THE DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT. This ivas a consolidated bill in equity founded on two reissued patents gran ted to appellant for improvement in transom lifters as follows: No. 9307, July 20, 1880, original -patent ‘No. 136,801, March'll, 1873, and No. 10,264, December 26, 1882, original patent No.-148,538, March-10,- 1874.- Appellee ivas charged with the infringement of the1 third claim -of the .reissued patent No! 9307,…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF IRE UNITED STATES FOR , THE DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT. This ivas a consolidated bill in equity founded on two reissued patents gran ted to appellant for improvement in transom lifters as follows: No. 9307, July 20, 1880, original -patent ‘No. 136,801, March'll, 1873, and No. 10,264, December 26, 1882, original patent No.-148,538, March-10,- 1874.- Appellee ivas charged with the infringement of the1 third claim -of the .reissued patent No! 9307, and the third, fourth, fifth," sixth,. and ninth claims of reissue No. 10,264.' The Circuit Court, on pleadings and…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
1. The specification and claims of reissue No. 9307 are as follows:
“ Transom lifters have heretofore been constructed with a long upright rod or handle jointed at its upper end to a lifting arm which extends to and is connected with the side or edge of the transom sash, the sash being opened or closed by a vertical movement of the long rod. When thus constructed the upright rod is liable to be bent by the weight of the transom, owing to the want of support -at or near the point of junction between the long rod and the lifting arm..
“The object of niy invention is to remedy this, difficulty;…
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