Wendell v. American Laundry Machinery Co.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; Oliver B. Dickinson, Judge. Suit in equity by Theresa S. Wendell, administratrix of Fred C. Wendell, deceased, and The Willey Company, Incorporated, against the American Laundry Machinery Company and the Locust Laundry Company. Decree for defendants, and complainants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
WOOUUEY, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court dismissing the plaintiff's bill charging infringement of Letters Patent No. 1,137,438, issued to the administratrix of the inventor, Fred C. Wendell. 239 Fed. 555.
Wendell was an inventor of laundry machines or ironing mangles. For some time prior to the year 1909, he had been developing the machine of the patent in suit. This machine irons and dries flat laundry work, such as sheets, pillow slips, towels, napkins, etc.., and consists essentially of two steam heated rotatable drams or cylinders superposed oue above…
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